What is the breakdown of your heritage?

[mvd]

What are your findings? Approximate breakdowns are ok.

My mom does genealogy work, so I could put together a detailed breakdown. I am:

1/3 English
1/4 Italian
1/8 German
1/8 French
1/16 Dutch
1/24 Scottish
1/24 Irish
1/24 Welsh

It even comes out to 100%.

[MichiganVote]

1. That's easy, 1/3 English, 2/3's Irish

[L. Coyote]

115. We each have 1,099 trillion ancestors in the last 1000 years,

Impossible, unless you had two mothers.

We each have 2 parents, 4 grandparents,
8 grandparents, 16 great grandparents, 32, 64, 128, 256,
512 great-great-great-great-great-great-great grandparents,
1,024 2,048 4,092 8,184 16,368

Fifteen generations ago 32,736 great, great..... grandparents.
Counting back, every generation twice as many ancestors as the generation before.

Given 25 years per generation, 40 generations occur in 1000 years.
We each have 1,099 trillion ancestors in the last 1000 years ....

from http://jqjacobs.net/anthro/ancestors.html

[MichiganVote]

124. With an Irish ancestry....anything is possible....but seriously

My maiden name derives from a town called Yardley in England. Or Yeardly or Yeardley. Doesn't really matter as there are several of these same sounding towns, different spelling, in both England and Ireland. When some ancestors migrated from England, they took the name of the town with them. The monks of Ireland may have saved civilization but the average joe couldn't spell. The name then changed its spelling to anything from Ardly, Ardley, Eardly, Eardley to, of course, Yardley.

These are all the current spellings of one name in the US as well. So as I said, with an Irish backgound, anything is possible. :)

[trof]

2. Polyglot. Scots, Irish, English, German, Italian, French.

The Lombards (Langobards, just ONE of my ancestor groups) got around.

The Langobards (or Lombards) were a Germanic tribe that began in southern Sweden and worked their way down into Italy by the 6th century. There they established permanent German rule in Italy, but became Italians in the process and gave their name to the northern Italian region of Lombardia. This movement from Sweden to Italy was gradual, taking some four centuries.

When the Lombards --whose original name, Langobards, refers to their long beards-- descended on Italy in the 6th century, they had to deal with several earier waves of German invaders (particularly the Goths) as well as the resurgent Eastern Romans (who were a power in Italy into the 8th century). However, twenty years after the last of the Eastern Romans were expelled from Italy (751 AD), the Lombards were stomped by the better organized Franks. This was, technically, the end of the Lombard kingdom in Italy. But it also marked the completion of the Germanization of Italy. The Lombards, unlike earlier Germans, had not maintained the ancient Roman forms of government during their domination of the Peninsula, not did the Lombard duchies which survived the Frankish onslaught in the South. The political landscape of Italy was given a German overlay by the Lombards. While everyone eventually spoke Italian and became Catholic, Italy became another Germanic area.

Perhaps most importantly, the Lombards got involved in political arguments with the Pope, and this was what caused the papacy to call upon the Franks for aid. The papacy was a prize every Medieval magnate wanted to possess. But the popes knew that they could not long survive if they were the creature of one king or emperor. The Moslems had conveniently removed the authority of the Eastern Roman emperor from Italy (with a little help from the Lombards), but someone was needed to keep the Germans in Italy (and elsewhere) from controlling the papacy. For several centuries the protector of the papacy became the Franks (and later the French). Out of all this came a papacy that became an arbiter of Medieval politics. While the papacy controlled extensive lands in central Italy, the pope was never much of a temporal power. The papacy created a balance of power between the various German kings that provided the Church an independance it would never had if there were an effective Roman, or Holy Roman, Emperor.

The last remnanst of Lombard independence in Italy, the numerous duchies which they had established in the south, eventually fell to the Normans , who had originally come into southern Italy to serve as mercenaries for the Lombard dukes.

[grannylib]

3. I found out about 6 years ago that I am half British and half Russian on my

birth mother's side (I guess that would really be 1/4 of each for me, since there was a father involved somewhere along the line *lol*) and I am not sure what he was, I think part German and maybe something else...I just met my birthmother about that time, and my birth father died in an accident about 11 or so years ago, so I don't know much about him.

I was raised as a Norski; my adoptive mom is 100% and my dad was 75% Norwegian and 25% German.
I married a half German/half Czech Hubby of My Dreams :-)

[mvd]

5. I'm pretty much a map of Western Europe

As you can see. I thought I was about half British Isles, but it's really a bit less.

[hippywife]

4. Well,

half Italian (father's side) and German-Irish (mother's side.)

[querelle]

6. Me?

Pure French on both sides. Nous sommes appelé la pur laine. We haven't been tainted by English or other mongrel blood.

Q

[bicentennial_baby]

11. ....

:rofl:

:applause:

[Nikia]

22. Are you sure that all the French in your family were really French?

For example, I found out that on the English side of my family, there was French Hugenot refugee blood. I also have French blood that is not fully French because my family came there as refugees from Eatern Europe.

[querelle]

49. Quits Sure

We can trace my father's family as far back as 16th century Normans and my mother's back to 17th century Bourbons. That's about as pur laine as one can get. No Hugenots. We are all Catholic.......well, lapsed Catholic to tell the truth. I was actually born in Paris and my family immigrated to Canada (Montreal) when i was three years old.

Q

[mvd]

25. My last name is French, so many people might believe

I have even more French than I have.

[dropkickpa]

7. About 95% Irish

I have a bohemian great great grandmother, some english people back there (turns out they went back and forth to Ireland, so it's near impossible to really figure out how much), a Swedish 8 great grandmother, and one or two others thrown in for good measure way back.

Growing up, my dad thought he was 1/2 german 1/2 irish, but it turns out that my grandma's family just told people they were german to avoid the stigma attached to the irish.

BTW, looking at us, you can definitely tell we're irish. My family is like a walking stereo-type.

[femmocrat]

8. Slovak, 100%. All 4 grandparents came from the same part of

what is now the Slovak Republic.

[crim son]

21. Cool!

I have Slovak in my family too, a great grandfather. Black-haired, green-eyed and really a beautiful man, he was.

[wildhorses]

9. a mutt

1/8 cherokee
1/16 creek
1/8 irish
1/4 (4/16) german
1/2 english

you are more a mutt than i am:hi:

something like that:dunce:

fractions suck:crazy:

[Maddy McCall]

10. Creek, Cherokee, English, Irish.

My maternal great grandmother was full-blooded Creek. Cherokee on my Dad's side, and a mix of English and Irish on both sides.

[NewWaveChick1981]

12. I don't know about percentages, but...

...Western Europe and Scandinavia. :) My mother's side is predominantly English and Scots-Irish. My father's side is German, French, Scandinavian, English, and Scots-Irish. My mother has traced her heritage (and mine) back to 1500s England, Scotland, and Ireland.

[XemaSab]

13. 1/4 Irish, 1/4 German, 1/2 Swedish

n/t

[rug]

14. 7/8 Irish, 1/8 French

[FarLeftRage]

15. What I am....

2/8 Italian
3/8 French
1/8 Irish
1/8 English - Scottish
1/8 German

In other words, well mixed!!

[VelmaD]

16. no one in my family is completely sure

And I kinda like it that way. I try my best to appreciate things about a lot of cultures...because you never know...any one of them might be mine. :)

[Shakespeare]

17. English, Scandinavian, French and Blackfoot.

[City Lights]

18. 1/2 German, 1/4 Latvian, 1/4 Polish. eom

[crim son]

19. It's like this:

Scottish + German great grandparents on one side, but the Germans migrated from Sweden some time in the 1700's.
Finnish + Slovak great grandparents on the other side. One set of grandparents born in Canada, the other in the U.S. Mom is Canadian and Dad is American.

[ismnotwasm]

20. 1/2 Swedish

1/4 Irish, and 1/4 Norwegian. The Norwegian history is actually a little murky, and there is probably other ethnicities there, but I've never looked into it. My father was a big red-headed Swede in his day. He remembers when all the "polish" jokes were Swede jokes.

[Penndems]

23. One-third Scotch-Irish, one-third Italian, one-third German

n/t

[Sisaruus]

24. 100% Finnish

All four grandparents came to the U.S. in the early 1900s.

[Flaxbee]

103. Do you / have you visited Finland much?

I loooove Finland - Helsinki is one of my favorite cities, and Porvoo is a cute little town... haven't been anywhere else in the country, but I've been to Finland (and Helsinki/Porvoo) twice and loved it both times.

[fizzgig]

26. i am such a mutt

i don't have a breakdown: scot, irish, english, germany, polish, russian, austrian, italian and who knows what else.

i do know that one great-grandfather came over from poland and another from austria. the family from the british isle came over centuries ago.

[Jamastiene]

27. I'm such a mixed breed, that you might as well say I'm 100%

sooner/mutt and damn proud of it. I have the best of the best that way. Mostly though, I'm just full of it.

[Nikia]

125. I am too

But it isn't like those 100% peopole aren't mixed breeds too.
So many places have experienced migrations and invasions that it really doesn't mean much for someone to say that they are 100% Irish, English, German, Italian, ... By the same logic, I am 100% American. All my ancestors have been here for a minimum of 6 generations and intermarried with other ethnic groups.

[DeepBlueC]

28. 100% Lithuanian

All four grandparents immigrated separately.

[tinfoilinfor2005]

145. Sveiki! or maybe Sveiks...

I'm 100% Latvian, and I know the Lithuanian language is somewhat close. I was in Estonia and Latvia last spring, but didn't have the opportunity to go to Lithuania. Maybe next time. Have you had the chance to go there? It was an amazing experience, happy and sad all at the same time.

[mainegreen]

29. easy: 50% Amsterdam Dutch, 50% Parisian French.

Yet strangely, Swiss citizenship.

[Redstone]

36. You know what the Irish say about the Amsterdam Dutch, don't you?

Well, there's the Amsterdam Dutch, and the Rotterdam Dutch,

the Potsdam Dutch, and the Goddam Dutch.

An then there's the Irish, and they ain't much,

But a damn sight better than the Goddam Dutch.

Just a bit of doggerel from my bar-musician days that I thought you'd find amusing.

Redstone

[MichiganVote]

59. LOL! My husband would love it!

[mainegreen]

66. My mom (the Dutch one) likes to spout a similar poem.

I found it rather funny at holidays.

[enigmatic]

30. hmm..

1/2 Irish
1/4 French Canadian
1/4 Ojibwa

[Left Is Write]

31. 13/16 Norwegian, 3/16 Swedish.

[Redstone]

32. Half American Indian (with one Welshman in the woodpile in the 1600s); half Irish.

Redstone

[bridgit]

33. scots, german, scandinavian...

[mcscajun]

34. AFAIK, the breakdown is as follows...

1/2 German
3/8 Irish
1/8 Norwegian

Cajun by choice. :)

[Redstone]

37. And a good choice that is. Cajuns know how to make the best out of this life,

don't they, cher?

Redstone

[mcscajun]

39. Ouais, cher.

:hi:

[Xipe Totec]

35. It this DNA testing, of genealogical research?

[mvd]

38. No, it doesn't have to be DNA perfect - LOL.

It's just from genealogy research.

[Xipe Totec]

42. Congratulations are in order

from one genealogist to another.

:hi:

I know how tough it is to research the many branches of the family tree.

I haven't done an inventory of my ancestry; I know that mine is primarily Spanish, with light Amerindian touches here and there.

But what does that mean? :shrug:

I don't know...

Spain is only Spain outside of Spain. Inside its borders you are either Andaluz, Catalan, Galician, Asturian, Castillian, Leones, Navarro, Extremeño, or Euskadi (Basque). I have a little of each, and my direct male ancestry is Middle Eastern (by DNA testing. Whether Arabic or Hebreic, who knows). On the Amerindian side, there's primarily Tarahumaran on my father's side, and Otomi on my mother's.

My mother's side is primarily a mixture of Jewish conversos, Gallegos, and Hidalgos from Extremadura (the early European settlers of South Texas and Northern Mexico).

Oh, did I mention the Irish? Yup, they're there too, God bless us.

It has been a long and interesting voyage of discovery.

[Lost-in-FL]

142. oops

wrong place

[AlCzervik]

40. half Lithuanian, half Irish.

[ornotna]

41. Mines easy

!/2 Scottish
1/2 Czech/Bohemian

Going back about 140 years. Beyond that, I'm unsure.

[mvd]

43. I could go back to about the 1600s, but before that..

it gets quite difficult.

[Qanisqineq]

44. approximately

2/5 Norwegian
2/5 German
1/5 Danish

[ZombieNixon]

45. 1/2 Indian.

And another 1/2 Indian. :P

There maybe some other stuff in there, but we don't know, because of the lack of written records.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

54. Freakin' Indians.

:P

[ZombieNixon]

84. Yeah, you'd think us bastards would think to write shit down, or something.

:eyes: :P

[Chan790]

46. Mine:

%50 Scots-Canadian (both of my father's parents are Scottish immigrants by way of Canada one generation removed.)
%25 Polish
%12 Lebanese
%12 Native American

[mvd]

47. And..

My grandfather was the son of Italian immigrants.

[unsavedtrash]

48. Irish and Cherokee n/t

[Skittles]

56. that is an interesting mix

:D

[huskerlaw]

50. I don't know the exact percentages, but

Something like:

1/4 Danish
1/4 German
1/4 Scotch
1/4 Irish

[lost-in-nj]

51. Heinz 57

A little English
A little French
A little Blackfoot Indian
A little German


Supposedly came over on the Mayflower.... name was Miller
Oh yeah I have a gravy boat that (family folklore says) came over with them......

Who really knows :shrug:
and THAT is a damn shame....
all I know is that if the 7th generation rule comes into effect, my great grandchildren should be aware of the Indian heritage BEFORE they have kids....



lost

[grasswire]

76. are you sure about the name?

Because there wasn't anyone named "Miller" on the Mayflower.

http://members.aol.com/calebj/passenger.html

Boy, I would love to see a photo of your gravy boat. That would be worth a small fortune. As the descendent of Pilgrims John Howland and Elizabeth Tilley Howland, I'd love very much to see a gravy boat that they themselves probably saw! Cool.

[lost-in-nj]

95. My bad

We had an Ensign Miller who was a decendent of the people on the Mayflower
I will have to look for my Moms family bible to see who it was. I would also have to get the gravy boat
out of temp storage... we are working on the house


lost

[hyphenate]

52. Mine's easy

My heritage is 100% Canadian.

On the next level down, though, it's 50% Scottish, 25% Irish and 25% English. The red hair, very pale complexion and green eyes pretty much give it away, anyhow. :)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

53. Indian (dot, not feather).

[Skittles]

55. 1/2 English 1/2 Norwegian

yes INDEED

[MorningGlow]

57. Italian. End.

Seriously--all four grandparents from Sicily, and that's the end of the story. My blood is PASTA SAUCE, man! :D

[NNadir]

58. I am mostly Antarctican.

I have though, some family living under the sea in what used to be Santorini - often evoked as the Atlantis myth - meaning that I'm part Merman.

There's always been something fishy about my family.

[baldguy]

60. 1/2 German

3/8 Irish
1/8 English

100% American

[LadyoftheRabbits]

61. Mutt...

of course. :P Not sure of exact numbers, but Scottish, Dutch, Greek, Irish, and English.

[SPKrazy]

62. I don't know if my heritage is broken down?

but I'm 1/4 German, the rest is mixes of English, Irish, Norwegian, Austrian, Cherokee, and who knows what else.

[two gun sid]

63. Irish and Mexican.n/t

[wavesofeuphoria]

64. 1/2 German, 1/4 Irish, 1/4 cherokee

[rockymountaindem]

65. It's hard to say. 1/8 Romanian, 1/2 Polish, part Ukranian. 100% Jewish, though.

That last part is pretty easy to determine. The problems arise in some part from the fact that the ever-shifting borders in the regions around the time my ancestors got the heck out of the E. European madhouse make it hard to determine where they actually came from. I recently found out that one of my ancestors from Ukraine would have been a citizen of Hungary in the Austro-Hungarian Empire when she left for the USA. I'm just glad most of them made it over safely. The last of my ancestors to come over arrived from modern-day Poland (or maybe Belarus) before the Kishinev Pogrom of 1903, but not until two of my great-great grandparents were trampled to death under the hooves of the Cossack cavalary in a seperate pogrom.

[Cabcere]

67. I am...

1/2 German
1/16 Irish
...and the rest mostly English, I think, with maybe a little Scottish thrown in. (My family history is quite jumbled and confusing, but I know my dad is German-born, and one of my great-great-aunts (I think that's right) moved to the U.S. from Ireland.) :shrug: Yeah, nothing too exciting here.

[caty]

68. I'm

1/2 French
1/4 English
1/4 Scottish

[njdemocrat106]

69. 50% Irish, 50% Polish

Irish-American dad, Polish-American mom. My great-grandmother (my mom's mom's mom) from Poland's maiden name, however, is a name commonly considered to be Jewish, so it's possible I might have some Jewish heritage as well.

[dolo amber]

70. Guilt and alcohol

Oh wait, those are the "downfalls" of my heritage. Easy to confuse. :hi:

[Critters2]

71. Basically 1/4 Scots 1/4 Irish 1/4 Scots Irish (so really 1/2 Scots) 1/4 German/Pomeranian

but two of my great-great-grandmothers were Menominee Indians, so I'm 1/16 that as well.

[opiate69]

72. 1/2 Italian, 1/4 Hungarian, 1/4 Scottish

[Tektonik]

73. here:

My mother is French and my father is Afghani

They met each other when he was studying in France, had my sister, he eventually left, and like 12 years later they met again and had me :P, my mom followed him to the US and a year later had my brother, and THEN they married.

[eauclaireliberal]

74. Don't know the numbers

Biological mom: Mexican Indian (Maya)
Biological dad: I forget the label, but it is one who hails from the region on the French-Italian border (Neopolitan?)

Adopted mom: Italian
Adopted dad: Totally Irish...

[Lautremont]

75. Icelandic and Irish.

Family legend says there's a little Algonquin in there.

[eauclaireliberal]

77. RE: Icelandic and Irish.

You made me think of Njorl's Saga...

[Neshanic]

78. From the Simpsons. "I guess I would have to start at when the Angles met the Saxons."

[Kutjara]

79. 50% English and 50% Irish, with...

...a garnish of Hugenot French on the Irish side.

[ghostsofgiants]

80. I dunno, there's some Irish, Swedish, Welsh, Jew...I'm all kinds of shit.

[sammythecat]

81. Heritage is interesting

but mostly misleading and meaningless in my friendly opinion.

My mother was born in Ballyhaunis, Ireland. My father's family came from France in the 1700's and bred often and indiscriminately in Pennsylvania thereafter.

I take no pride or guilt in my heritage. Only in myself.

[mvd]

100. That's a good way of thinking

I like knowing what I am, but we're all members of the HUMAN race.

[sg_]

110. As an "outsider"

who lurks about here and who doesnt live or was born in the US, I do find it slightly amusing at times when people rhyme off percentages of where their grandparents(eg) came from as if they are reading off the back of a packet of food ! :o

That said, my gran was born in Canada to Swiss parents, thats about as interesting as it gets really. Everyone else in my family, as far as I know "originates" from N.Ireland/Ireland and I guess Scotland too if you go back far enough !.

[sammythecat]

117. It's hard to ignore ancestral heritage, but I think we should try.

My amateur opinion is that genetics will likely determine a person's native intelligence and physical makeup, but their character is largely determined by the environment and circumstance of their upbringing.

Whatever kind of person one becomes in life has nothing whatsoever to do with the fact that their ancestor was the King of East Japip or a thieving murderer in East Japip. Not a single thing.

Another amateur opinion of mine is that the permutations (I think that's the right word) of genetics are such that siblings can be as different as night and day.

National stereotypes are bunk too, in my opinion. Take an Irish infant and raise him in Switzerland and he may very well grow up to be a beer drinking watchmaker who likes to wear lederhosen when he plays his accordion.

[misanthrope]

82. White Southern American...

...To me, ethnicity is all about acculturation.

[AshevilleGuy]

83. English, Scots. Swedish, German, Norman, Portuguese and maybe Magyar.

I have seen a pedigree that says I am a direct descendant of Attita the Hun. I do hope so. :)

[gemdem]

85. Seems simple enough

on the surface, that is.

But, depending on how far back you wanna go, and how you wanna slice and dice it, things can get more complicated. In short, however, my heritage is thus...

7/8 German
1/8 Irish

Now the German is where things get interesting because many of my ancestors on my father's side were from the low country in Nordrhein-Westfalen. Some of them were from what is now the Netherlands, so the argument can be made that some of the "Deutsch" is Dutch.

The Irish comes from my mother's side. Her mother's father was a Coughlin, and his ancestors came from the County Cork. Can't get much more Irish than that.

[TK421]

86. From what I've been told, I'm 25% Irish, 25% English 10% German

10% Polish.....but the rest is really fuzzy

[last_texas_dem]

87. I wish I knew more about it...

I've never really researched it myself, so I just know what my parents and grandparents have told me (and I'm not sure if I can remember all of that!) My mom's side is basically English and Welsh, while my dad's side seems to not really know or care anything about their family history! However, their (and my) last name is English, and we also have some Cajun relatives so we've got a little bit of French blood, too, though not in any significant amount.

[leeroysphitz]

88. Alcoholism.

[Lord Helmet]

89. okay

1/2 Irish
1/3 White Guy
1/8 Spaniard
2/6 8-piece Tupperware set
1/5 Cherokee

[zingaro]

116. Wow.

Mathmatically speaking, I bet that Tupperware set part comes in handy. Freezer proof? :rofl:

:hi: Welcome to DU! :hi:

[Vidar]

90. 60% Swede, 30% Norwegian, 10% Dane= 100% Viking.

[FloridaJudy]

91. Haven't a clue...

I once tried a genealogy search that dead-ended into two foundling hospitals (St. Petersburg, Russia and Manchester, UK). If I ever get rich, maybe I'll do one of those DNA scans...

I'd be hideously disappointed if I turned out to be 100% Caucasian, though, so maybe I'd save the money for something else.

[mvd]

94. Why be disappointed?

You are what you are. Nowadays, though, it isn't uncommon for all Americans to have something different, at least way back.

[BuelahWitch]

92. I don't know how to break this down (I suck at fractions)

SO
My father was full blooded Italian, so I'm 1/2 Italian

But my maternal Grandmother was English and German and my maternal Grandfather is full blooded Irish. How do I make that into the second half?

I always say I'm a Heinz 57 (do you think Teresa will adopt me?)

[LSK]

93. half Greek half Dutch

3rd generation American.

[terrya]

96. Scotch/German

[nickinSTL]

97. hmm, let's see...

around 9/16 Norwegian, 1/4 German, 1/8 Swedish, 1/16 English...but when you go back further, there are Irish, Scots and eventually Bretons thrown in...but they are really minor percentages.

[cwydro]

98. Easy

half English, half Welsh.

But born here. Sigh.

[undeterred]

99. Alcohol, cigarettes, divorce, neurosis, depression- the usual breakdowns.

[valerief]

101. 85% human, 15% sheep. I'm one of the new breed. nt

[trackfan]

102. 1/1 Italian

[Flaxbee]

104. 1/3 English, 1/3 German

and then the remainder is mixed French, Scottish and Sioux.

Mom's English side has been here since the 1600s, dad's German since the late 1800s. Don't really know when the rest got mixed in.

[Roon]

105. That's easy for me

50% Basque
50% German

[kwassa]

106. Scots, English, a little German

both my mother's and father's side of the family came to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636.

[cloudbase]

107. Father from Bulgaria.

Mother from Romania.

100% American.

[gbate]

108. I'm not sure of the percentages, but I'm Italian, Dutch, German and French Canadian.

[EFerrari]

109. Roughly, 50% Scots Irish in English drag and 50% laudino (=

Native American and Spanish.

We call it Heinz 57.

On edit: but that doesn't explain how my maiden name was Degenhardt. Make that Heinz 58. :shrug:

[u4ic]

111. Mostly Ukrainian

with a bit of Polish.

I don't know the exact percentages, because the borders kept changing. For example, when my maternal grandparents left Europe, the city they were from was part of the Austro-Hungarian empire; previously it had been part of both Poland and Ukraine, and now the city is in Ukraine again.

I don't know of any records of my family that extend farther back than the mid 1800's; many records in that region were destroyed in WWII.

[JackBeck]

112. I was adopted.

But as far as I know, I'm half Italian and half Irish.

Be thankful for how much you know.

[Kurovski]

113. All Polish, at least going back four generations.

[susanna]

114. I am nuts, but beyond that...

Armenian
German
Russian
Cherokee
Creek
English
Scot
Irish

I don't know the exact breakdown, but I do know I might be one of them Heinz 57 varieties. :-)

[otherlander]

118. hmmm....

1/2 Irish
1/4 German
1/4 Ukrainian

[grace0418]

119. 1/2 Greek, 1/4 Irish, 1/4 German. My husband is 100% Filipino so our kid will

be half Filipino and half Euro-mutt.

[CottonBear]

120. Scots-Irish (complete with a family full of blue eyed redheads and blondes!)

My maternal Nana and her father were Black Irish.

[Orsino]

121. African-Asian. Verrrrrrrrry approximately.

I'm white Scotch-Irish, and like many Southerners' my family tree turns hazy and disappears much before the Civil War. The Genographic Project, though, tells me more...

Your Y-chromosome results identify you as a member of haplogroup R*.The genetic markers that define your ancestral history reach back roughly 60,000 years to the first common marker of all non-African men, M168, and follow your lineage to present day, ending with M207, the defining marker of haplogroup R*.

If you look at the map highlighting your ancestors’ route, you will see that members of haplogroup R* carry the following Y-chromosome markers:

M168 > M89 > M9 > M45 > M207

The man carrying marker M207 came out of Central Asia and gave rise to two distinct haplogroups. The first group (haplogroup R1) headed west into Europe, ultimately producing over 70 percent of all western European male genetic lineages found today. The other group—your haplogroup—likely headed south, making it as far as the Indian subcontinent.

M168: Your Earliest Ancestor

Fast Facts

Time of Emergence: Roughly 50,000 years ago

Place of Origin: Africa

Climate: Temporary retreat of Ice Age; Africa moves from drought to warmer temperatures and moister conditions

Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: Approximately 10,000

Tools and Skills: Stone tools; earliest evidence of art and advanced conceptual skills

Skeletal and archaeological evidence suggest that anatomically modern humans evolved in Africa around 200,000 years ago, and began moving out of Africa to colonize the rest of the world around 60,000 years ago.

The man who gave rise to the first genetic marker in your lineage probably lived in northeast Africa in the region of the Rift Valley, perhaps in present-day Ethiopia , Kenya, or Tanzania, some 31,000 to 79,000 years ago. Scientists put the most likely date for when he lived at around 50,000 years ago. His descendants became the only lineage to survive outside of Africa, making him the common ancestor of every non-African man living today.

But why would man have first ventured out of the familiar African hunting grounds and into unexplored lands? It is likely that a fluctuation in climate may have provided the impetus for your ancestors’ exodus out of Africa.

The African ice age was characterized by drought rather than by cold. It was around 50,000 years ago that the ice sheets of northern Europe began to melt, introducing a period of warmer temperatures and moister climate in Africa. Parts of the inhospitable Sahara briefly became habitable. As the drought-ridden desert changed to a savanna, the animals hunted by your ancestors expanded their range and began moving through the newly emerging green corridor of grasslands. Your nomadic ancestors followed the good weather and the animals they hunted, although the exact route they followed remains to be determined.

In addition to a favorable change in climate, around this same time there was a great leap forward in modern humans’ intellectual capacity. Many scientists believe that the emergence of language gave us a huge advantage over other early human species. Improved tools and weapons, the ability to plan ahead and cooperate with one another, and an increased capacity to exploit resources in ways we hadn’t been able to earlier, all allowed modern humans to rapidly migrate to new territories, exploit new resources, and replace other hominids.

M89: Moving Through the Middle East

Fast Facts

Time of Emergence: 45,000 years ago

Place: Northern Africa or the Middle East

Climate: Middle East: Semi-arid grass plains

Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: Tens of thousands

Tools and Skills: Stone, ivory, wood tools

The next male ancestor in your ancestral lineage is the man who gave rise to M89, a marker found in 90 to 95 percent of all non-Africans. This man was born around 45,000 years ago in northern Africa or the Middle East.

The first people to leave Africa likely followed a coastal route that eventually ended in Australia. Your ancestors followed the expanding grasslands and plentiful game to the Middle East and beyond, and were part of the second great wave of migration out of Africa.

Beginning about 40,000 years ago, the climate shifted once again and became colder and more arid. Drought hit Africa and the grasslands reverted to desert, and for the next 20,000 years, the Saharan Gateway was effectively closed. With the desert impassable, your ancestors had two options: remain in the Middle East, or move on. Retreat back to the home continent was not an option.

While many of the descendants of M89 remained in the Middle East, others continued to follow the great herds of buffalo, antelope, woolly mammoths, and other game through what is now modern-day Iran to the vast steppes of Central Asia.

These semi-arid grass-covered plains formed an ancient “superhighway” stretching from eastern France to Korea. Your ancestors, having migrated north out of Africa into the Middle East, then traveled both east and west along this Central Asian superhighway. A smaller group continued moving north from the Middle East to Anatolia and the Balkans, trading familiar grasslands for forests and high country.

M9: The Eurasian Clan Spreads Wide and Far

Fast Facts

Time of Emergence: 40,000 years ago

Place: Iran or southern Central Asia

Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: Tens of thousands

Tools/Skills: Upper Paleolithic

Your next ancestor, a man born around 40,000 years ago in Iran or southern Central Asia, gave rise to a genetic marker known as M9, which marked a new lineage diverging from the M89 Middle Eastern Clan. His descendants, of which you are one, spent the next 30,000 years populating much of the planet.

This large lineage, known as the Eurasian Clan, dispersed gradually over thousands of years. Seasoned hunters followed the herds ever eastward, along the vast super highway of Eurasian steppe. Eventually their path was blocked by the massive mountain ranges of south Central Asia—the Hindu Kush, the Tian Shan, and the Himalayas.

The three mountain ranges meet in a region known as the “Pamir Knot,” located in present-day Tajikistan. Here the tribes of hunters split into two groups. Some moved north into Central Asia, others moved south into what is now Pakistan and the Indian subcontinent.

These different migration routes through the Pamir Knot region gave rise to separate lineages.

Most people native to the Northern Hemisphere trace their roots to the Eurasian Clan. Nearly all North Americans and East Asians are descended from the man described above, as are most Europeans and many Indians.

M45: The Journey Through Central Asia

Fast Facts

Time of Emergence: 35,000

Place of Origin: Central Asia

Climate: Glaciers expanding over much of Europe

Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: Approximately 100,000

Tools and Skills: Upper Paleolithic

The next marker of your genetic heritage, M45, arose around 35,000 years ago, in a man born in Central Asia. He was part of the M9 Eurasian Clan that had moved to the north of the mountainous Hindu Kush and onto the game-rich steppes of present-day Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and southern Siberia.

Although big game was plentiful, the environment on the Eurasian steppes became increasing hostile as the glaciers of the Ice Age began to expand once again. The reduction in rainfall may have induced desertlike conditions on the southern steppes, forcing your ancestors to follow the herds of game north.

To exist in such harsh conditions, they learned to build portable animal-skin shelters and to create weaponry and hunting techniques that would prove successful against the much larger animals they encountered in the colder climates. They compensated for the lack of stone they traditionally used to make weapons by developing smaller points and blades—microliths—that could be mounted to bone or wood handles and used effectively. Their tool kit also included bone needles for sewing animal-skin clothing that would both keep them warm and allow them the range of movement needed to hunt the reindeer and mammoth that kept them fed.

Your ancestors’ resourcefulness and ability to adapt was critical to survival during the last ice age in Siberia, a region where no other hominid species is known to have lived.

The M45 Central Asian Clan gave rise to many more; the man who was its source is the common ancestor of most Europeans and nearly all Native American men.

M207: Leaving Central Asia

Fast Facts

Time of Emergence: 30,000

Place of Origin: Central Asia

Climate: Glaciers expanding over much of Europe and western Eurasia

Estimated Number of Homo sapiens: Approximately 100,000

Tools and Skills: Upper Paleolithic

After spending considerable time in Central Asia, refining skills to survive in harsh new conditions and exploit new resources, a group from the Central Asian Clan began to head west towards the European sub-continent.

An individual in this clan carried the new M207 mutation on his Y-chromosome. His descendants ultimately split into two distinct groups, with one continuing onto the European subcontinent, making this man the ancestor of most western European men alive today.

But your genetic lineage does not descend from this westward migrating band of hunter-gatherers. The second group did not head west into Europe, but rather likely turned south, ultimately ending their journey in the Indian subcontinent and giving rise to many men whose lineages survive there today. This distribution adds weight to linguistic and archaeological evidence suggesting that a large migration from the Asian steppes into India occurred within the last 10,000 years.

[bigwillq]

122. 75% Italian, 25% English

although I really only consider myself Italian.

[ceile]

123. Well....

1/4 Irish (mom's mom-100% Irish)
1/8 Scottish (mom's dad-1/2 Scottish)
1/8 English (mom's dad-1/2 English)
1/4 German (dad's mom-100% German)
and don't know anything about my dad's dad. We think Swedish, but really don't know. He was orphaned at a young age.

[yvr girl]

126. I'm a Euro Mutt

1/4 English
1/4 German
1/4 Norwegian
1/8 Italian
1/8 Irish

[LaraMN]

127. I like reading these threads.

1/2 Bavarian German
?? English
?? Swedish
?? Other

No one seems to have kept track of anything specific on my Father's side, but on my Mother's we have extensive details.

[taught_me_patience]

128. Hapa

1/2 Japanese
3/8 English
1/8 Swedish


taught.

[nuxvomica]

129. I/4 Sicilian, 1/4 Spanish, 1/4 French, !/8 Welsh, 1/8 Dutch

My genealogy only goes out to my great grandparents but the nationalities are probably pretty stable well beyond them.

[Rhiannon12866]

136. Who in your family is Dutch?

Are you related to Nana?:shrug:

[Wapsie B]

130. German, Polish, Norwegian.

[RedG1]

131. native American (I was born here)...

of Irish descent

[RetroLounge]

132. No idea on percentages

My Dad = German & Danish
My Mom = German, Swedish & Norwegian

I do occasionally get the urge to plunder, loot and pillage...

RL

[Dastard Stepchild]

133. Just four...

But I can't give exact percentages, so I'll write them in alphabetical order:

Bohemian (Czech), German, Irish, Sicilian.

The bulk of me is German (Mom and Dad's paternal side) and Sicilian (Mom's maternal side), with some Bohemian (Dad's maternal side) and Irish (Dad's paternal side).

If I had to guess I would say 60% German, 25% Sicilian, 7.5% Bohemian and 7.5% Irish.

[Rhiannon12866]

134. Mine is pretty simple.

I'm half Polish (my mother)
1/4 Irish (my paternal great-grandparents)
1/8 Dutch and 1/8 English (my paternal grandmother)
I hope that this comes to 100%...:hi:

On edit: If you're interested, check out the Ancestry/Genealogy Group. You'd find similar posts...:-)

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topics&forum=331

[Kajsa]

135. 100% Swedish.

My entire family immigrated here after WWII.

I'm the only one ( of my generation) born in the US.

[Guava Jelly]

137. Irish,French,German

:7

[Lady President]

138. I think this it

I'm not sure about my math-- fractions are tricky! This list does explain why I never tan.

3/8 English
1/4 Irish
1/4 Scottish
1/16 German
1/16 Swiss

[cloudbase]

139. Father from Bulgaria, Mother from Romania

The family was "invited" to leave Spain +/- 500 years ago.

I'm all American.

[Rhythm]

140. 1/2 Scottish, 1/4 English, 1/4 Jewish

and a descendant of James IV of Scotland (paternal grandfather's lineage)

[madrchsod]

141. swedish-german-the perfect aryan!

[Lost-in-FL]

143. 3/4 Puertorrican, 1/4 Dutch n/t

[Withywindle]

144. geez....

No percentages or fractions, that's math and I can't do that stuff.

But I know I'm Irish, Scottish, French, maybe a little Italian, Portuguese, Native (South) American, and maybe a little African. But as I've been told, my face "looks like a map of Ireland" except for the really dark brown eyes that come from my northern-Brazilian half. (I clarify "nothern" because there are a lot of fair-skinned, "white" Brazilians in the south. My mom ain't one of them.)

[tandot]

146. 1/2 French and 1/2 German

immigrated to the US in 1994

[stuntcat]

147. mostly Scottish

a little English and Irish and some general "American" I'm sure, but the Scottish ancesters are the ones we know all about from decades of genealogy my Grandma did.