What's Your Ethnic Background?

[Iron Woode]

I thought it would be interesting to see where many of us posters' ancestors came from.

For myself, I am of Ukrainian descent and my grandparents came here to Canada in the late 1920's. They settled in Ottawa, Ontario (Canada's Capital) and couldn't read or write and didn't speak English. They eventually learned to speak English and worked whatever jobs they could get. Eventually my father and my aunt were born. Dad eventually got married and here I am.

 

[Exterous]

Dutch, German, Russian and African

 

[KMFJD]

i'm one of those horrible immigrants

Dutch

 

[Exterous]

Dutch

Stroopwafeler's unite!

 

[Naer]

im cartoon, and anime mix

 

[vi edit]

5th gen Irish with a splah of Native American.

 

[Greenman]

As my pappy used to always say: There are two kinds of people in the world, the Irish, and them that just wish they were.

 

[vi edit]

I married and had kids with a 3rd gen German. Talk about some stubborn ass kids.

 

[MagnusTheBrewer]

Norwegian, Swedish, English and, Irish.

 

[bbhaag]

i'm one of those horrible immigrants

Dutch

Really? What part of the Netherlands were you born in? What year did you migrate to the US in?

 

[lxskllr]

German

 

[PlanetJosh]

Italian German. But it hasn't been verified by an online ancestry site yet.

 

[ctbaars]

First born in US.
German

 

[brianmanahan]

irish + scottish + british + german + swiss + polish + dutch

the dutch ancestors got to the new world earliest in about 1650-60

everyone was here by about 1900. a few fought in the revolutionary war

farthest ancestor i can trace back is robert the bruce of scotland, 20th great-grandpa born in 1274.

but unfortunately i'm not in line for the throne.

 

[BoomerD]

'Murican...

 

[brianmanahan]

'Murican...

i think murica is too young to count as an ethnicity yet. probably needs at least 500 years in order to gel.

 

[BoomerD]

i think murica is too young to count as an ethnicity yet. probably needs at least 500 years in order to gel.

My ancestors were here a LONG time before the whites too the country away from them...

 

[Leyawiin]

White Southern. Yeah, its an ethnic group for all intents and purposes. I'm mostly English with a bit of Ulster Scots and Welsh. I've traced ancestors back to arriving in Virginia in the late 1600s. Got a few that fought in the Revolutionary War and War of 1812 and a lot of them in the Civil War (Confederate Army from Alabama and Mississippi). Being born and raised in California I never really gave it much thought until about a year ago. Kind of got hooked on exploring my ancestry.

 

[KMFJD]

Really? What part of the Netherlands were you born in? What year did you migrate to the US in?

The most southern province Limburg,immigrated in 1980.

 

[mikeymikec]

Irish, English

My (Irish) mother moved in order to find employment.

<notices this thread is in 'off topic' rather than P&N so I'll resist making any further comments>

 

[Mai72]

Why? Ethnic background profiling?

#Me Too!


































Just Kid. I'm half Italian/Irish.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Pretty much "all of the above" as long as "above" only lists European ethnicities.

Which is a pretty safe bet, since standardized testing still has tons of cultural bias.

 

[olds]

Great Britain 22%
Ireland/Scotland/Wales 19%
Iberian Peninsula 16%
Native American 13%
Mutt 30%

 

[brianmanahan]

My ancestors were here a LONG time before the whites too the country away from them...

oh right, native murica

 

[lxskllr]

oh right, native murica

He kicked the dinosaurs out himself when he moved in.