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06-28-2009, 04:30 AM
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 17
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What is your heritage?
I'm French, Irish, Scottish, Flemish and Norwegian.
What about you?
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06-28-2009, 04:39 AM
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#2
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Not near you, I assure you.
Posts: 304
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Dutch and I have no idea where my dad comes from. Maybe like... very distant English? Not a clue.
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06-28-2009, 09:07 AM
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#3
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Posts: 1,044
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I am of German and Polish heritage.
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06-28-2009, 10:43 AM
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#4
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 29
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Jamaican, Chinese, Russian, Austrian.
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06-28-2009, 11:08 AM
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#5
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: In the broken temple bells, in the ringing...
Posts: 5,979
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Scottish and Welsh.
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06-28-2009, 11:28 AM
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#6
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Fiddler's Green
Posts: 1,406
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Native American (Chereokee, Blackfeet) 1/8, German, Serbian/Croatian, Scottish, French, Irish.
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06-28-2009, 01:14 PM
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#7
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Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: A lovely place where the humidity melts your makeup off.
Posts: 113
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Swedish, Irish, Scottish, English, and if the family legend is true, a slight bit of Native American
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06-28-2009, 01:43 PM
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#8
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: In the Desert
Posts: 4,270
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German, Mexican, maybe some Russian, and Cherokee.
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06-28-2009, 01:52 PM
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#9
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Posts: 9,548
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English, Irish and French.
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06-28-2009, 02:17 PM
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#10
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Springfield, MO
Posts: 163
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Mostly Italian. Thought there was some English in there but, fortunately, it turns out my mom's side of the family just got stuck in England for a little while on the way to America from Luthiana(Formerly part of USSR, Slavic). Also have a little German, Irish and Scottish in there.
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06-28-2009, 02:57 PM
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#11
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Join Date: Apr 2008
Location: Kansas
Posts: 58
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Irish, Scottish, Taino, Spanish-romani, Cuban
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06-28-2009, 03:33 PM
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#12
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Back in Wisconsin(thinking about invading the south)
Posts: 3,693
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Half Columbian though my ancestors never mixed with the natives so it could also be considered Half Spanish, on the other half is mostly german with a bit of Austrian and Irish.
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06-28-2009, 03:39 PM
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#13
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Join Date: May 2006
Location: New Zealand
Posts: 2,126
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All over the place, but my Family name I understand came from some French aristocrat who took over an English port in the 1500's.
So I'll just say French & Irish to the best of my knowledge.
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06-28-2009, 03:44 PM
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#14
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: some where in New England (USA)
Posts: 20
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Native American (Blackfeet and something else), African American (No clue what tribe) and Barbadian American
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06-28-2009, 03:49 PM
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#15
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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How can people know so specifically what they are? And what's its use?
I'm Mexican and that's it.
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06-28-2009, 04:23 PM
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#16
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Join Date: Jun 2006
Location: In the broken temple bells, in the ringing...
Posts: 5,979
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I was wondering something similar. Most of the people who've replied have about 4 different answers. Don't get that really. I go by surnames. My father's surname is Scottish, and my mother's maiden name is Welsh.
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06-28-2009, 04:39 PM
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#17
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Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Australia
Posts: 2,424
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Mostly English with a touch of Danish in there too.
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06-28-2009, 05:03 PM
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#18
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Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: London, UK
Posts: 2,065
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
How can people know so specifically what they are? And what's its use?
I'm Mexican and that's it.
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I think most people guess by the last names of their grandparents and great grandparents, and with so many grandparents it adds up to a lot of guesses.
I come from a family of historians though, so my heritage has been documented many, many times in all its mundane detail. One interesting thing I've gleaned from it though is that our single convinct ancestor was an Englishman shipped to the colonies for stealing a piece of leather.
But anyway to answer the question, like most Australian mongrels I have at least one ancestor from just about every part of Britain. An outstanding bulk of them, however, are Scottish, and that's the heritage I identify with most.
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06-28-2009, 05:10 PM
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#19
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Back in Wisconsin(thinking about invading the south)
Posts: 3,693
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Well some familys like my own tend to keep track. It's like on my father's mother's side, they've managed to trace it back all the way back to the revolutionary war, though the ancestor who was around back then was fighting against the United States as a Hessian mercenary.
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"The chaos of the world viewed from a distance reveals perfection."- me
"Never overestimate the intellect of someone so foolish that they would exploit and perpetuate stupidity in the people around them, for they create their own damnation as they tear out and sell the pillars that support society as a whole, bringing it crashing down upon them."-me
“I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.”- Einstein
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06-28-2009, 06:11 PM
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#20
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Springfield, MO
Posts: 163
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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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06-28-2009, 06:16 PM
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#21
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Springfield, MO
Posts: 163
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
How can people know so specifically what they are? And what's its use?
I'm Mexican and that's it.
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Not much use. Is useful in some situations. In some countries, like Italy, it doesn't make a difference where you or your parents were born. So long as no one renounced their Italian citizenship before the next generation was born then the next generation is considered an Italian citizen under Italy's law. So useful if I ever wanted to claim it and get the hell out of dodge.
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06-28-2009, 06:40 PM
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#22
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Join Date: Jun 2007
Location: Nowhere
Posts: 1,835
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German, Portuguese, French, Irish, Scottish, English, Austrian, and Russian. I think that's it.
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06-28-2009, 06:56 PM
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#23
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Osaka, Japan
Posts: 1,472
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Godslayer Jillian
How can people know so specifically what they are? And what's its use?
I'm Mexican and that's it.
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It can be interesting, but I also get annoyed at people who seem overly proud of their heritage.
That I'm American is all I can reliably tell people.
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06-28-2009, 07:03 PM
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#24
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Join Date: Nov 2005
Location: El Paso, Texas/ Ciudad Juarez, Chihuahua
Posts: 9,203
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I'm proud of my heritage, but because my heritage is Mexican. That's it.
But let's take BtS's post.
"German, Portuguese, French, Irish, Scottish, English, Austrian, and Russian."
So many nations. Does he identify with all of them? Does he identify with any of them?
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"No theory, no ready-made system, no book that has ever been written will save the world.
I cleave to no system. I am a true seeker."
-Mikhail Bakunin
Quote:
Originally Posted by George Carlin
People who say they don’t care what people think are usually desperate to have people think they don’t care what people think.
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06-28-2009, 07:55 PM
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#25
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Bliss
Posts: 4,374
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Don't know what it would be important, but I'm English and English part Danish. That would make me a little danish...
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