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Some of our families haven't been here very long, so country of origin isn't hard to pin down. I'm only 3rd generation on my father's side and like 4th on my mother's. Add that to the fact that recent immigrants at the time, especially Italian and Russian (Though the same holds true for most ethnic groups), tended to stick around others of the same ethnic background, it isn't hard. As for how much of what is in me, that's much tougher. Though I know what backgrounds are more predominate as my paternal grandfather was 100% Italian and both maternal great grandparents were from Luthiana. Well, that only holds if you don't want to get into issues like Germanic overrunning of northern Italy and other similar situations.
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