Wolfe Tone
Which Way Did He Go?
Pretty much 100% Irish as far as I know, half from Ulster half from Munster, except that the Ulster half as origins in Cork or so I've heard.
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Ancestry and Ancestors
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Stapel
FIAT 850 coupé
My father's side is 100% dutch. My mother's mother's side is dutch too, my mother's father's family origins from germany. For this reason, my mother's name can be found in "Das Deutsch Geschlaechter Buch".
aaminion00
Stoned
Bosnian, bosnian, and then a very distant branch of the family is actually... bosnian. Nothing too complicated, unless you take into account pointless divisions based on what part of the country your family came from. War stories? Grandfather and his brother were partizans and some uncles/cousins fought in the last war. My last name sounds nothing like the others here because our family split from another larger family a few hundred years ago, and took up the name of a small village that was once established by the romans. So in a sense, my name is more italian/latin than Bosnian, but the other larger family was definetly slavic sounding. Anything I'm missing? Uhh... oh yeah, my family historically has the title "noble". That's all that I can think of for now.
Stapel
FIAT 850 coupé
AFAIk, Aaminion00, Bosnia has quite a history on where people come from: a mix of Croatians, Serbs and Ottomans. Can you inform us on that?
Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
Half Swedish, Half Australian of English extraction, with some extra Swede a couple of generations back on the English side. And that is that, for as far back I as I can find out.
jack merchant
Internationalist
That's rather disappointing Simon..... I really had you pegged for a 'boy from Brazil' 
Aphex_Twin
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I'm mostly Romanian, with a German great-grandfather. My parents though came from opposite sides of the country...
Simon Darkshade
Mysterious City of Gold
They are already grown up and working on my staff, funded by the Holcroft Covenant.
Free Enterprise
The return stroke.
Maternal side:
Mostly English(the coat of arms has a Fleurs-de-lys on it *not a French* coat of arms however it *is indeed* English), a bit of German, and a wee bit of Dutch(recently discovered).
Paternal side:
Considerable Irish(the name was a clan might still be too), and Norwegian(almost(possibly) certainly viking warriors
far in the past).
Mostly Northern European with some Celtic as a result.
This is the Fleur-de-lys which is one of the symbols on the English coat of arms:
Mostly English(the coat of arms has a Fleurs-de-lys on it *not a French* coat of arms however it *is indeed* English), a bit of German, and a wee bit of Dutch(recently discovered).
Paternal side:
Considerable Irish(the name was a clan might still be too), and Norwegian(almost(possibly) certainly viking warriors
far in the past). Mostly Northern European with some Celtic as a result.
This is the Fleur-de-lys which is one of the symbols on the English coat of arms:
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Benderino
Loyal American Democrat
My mother is Hungarian
My father's father was German and Swiss
My father's mother was Irish
So I'm 50% Hungarian, 25% Irish, 12.5% German, and 12.5% Swiss.
My mother's father was son to an Othodox Rabbi.
My father's mother was a devout Irish Catholic.
That makes me a Mutt!
My father's father was German and Swiss
My father's mother was Irish
So I'm 50% Hungarian, 25% Irish, 12.5% German, and 12.5% Swiss.
My mother's father was son to an Othodox Rabbi.
My father's mother was a devout Irish Catholic.
That makes me a Mutt!
G
Gainy
Guest
1/2 Irish 1/2 English 1/2 Scottish 
One half of my family is from Ireland, the other half is from England. I am from Scotland. The irish side were/are all nurses and farmers, the english side were/are all Blacksmiths and Engineers
One half of my family is from Ireland, the other half is from England. I am from Scotland. The irish side were/are all nurses and farmers, the english side were/are all Blacksmiths and Engineers
CurtSibling
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Scots with some previous Irish.
But originally descended from Spanish.
But originally descended from Spanish.
Father was from the western tip of Cornwall which is also where almost all the people with my (rare) name come from. The original greatx4 grandmother of our clan arrived with a small child and a sack of money in the early/mid 19th C, we believe as a result of an illicit union with someone in a wealthy family with the same phonetic name - but different spelling - based in the west midlands. Our best guess is that she was a servant made pregnant by a member of the family.
That family in turn are the bastard descendants of a noble family that came over with William, the legitimate line of which died out when the ruling lord rebelled (unsuccessfully!) against Henry VIII
MY paternal grandmother was killed in the war by a single random bomb dropped in daylight on the city of Plymouth that took out one house in one street, happening to be the one that she was in.
On my mother's side we know very little, except that my grandfather was an east-end (cockney) tailor with a fairly typical English name, and we know very little about my maternal grandmother's past as she died in the late 1920's. They were unusual only in being Catholic in a mainly Portestant area. Our guess is that on that side we are a mixture of the common east-end London ethnicities: English, Hugenot, Jewish, etc.
That family in turn are the bastard descendants of a noble family that came over with William, the legitimate line of which died out when the ruling lord rebelled (unsuccessfully!) against Henry VIII
MY paternal grandmother was killed in the war by a single random bomb dropped in daylight on the city of Plymouth that took out one house in one street, happening to be the one that she was in.
On my mother's side we know very little, except that my grandfather was an east-end (cockney) tailor with a fairly typical English name, and we know very little about my maternal grandmother's past as she died in the late 1920's. They were unusual only in being Catholic in a mainly Portestant area. Our guess is that on that side we are a mixture of the common east-end London ethnicities: English, Hugenot, Jewish, etc.
Drewcifer
Agent of Karma
Third generation American Swedish and Norwegian on my mom's side. My great grandmother was from Stavanger. She lived until she was 100, kept the family close to its immigrant sensibilities.
On my dad's side English Massachusetts Puritan and probably the miscellaneous other that comes with having so many unknown ancestors in the New World for a long time.
On my dad's side English Massachusetts Puritan and probably the miscellaneous other that comes with having so many unknown ancestors in the New World for a long time.
I was made in Vancouver, Canada. My parents too.
Grandparents:
One of basically Scottish origin, but his line appears to be all seagoing types, and based out of the Pacific Northwest early on. They're all fond of papaya and handy with rope, so what culture is that, exactly?
One from obscurely rural Scotland, at age 6. Her father had work tending unmanned lighthouses here.
A predictable match.
Two from some blend of mainly Swedes and Danes in the unviking clime of South Alberta's desert, farming sheep no less, at the edge of the Badlands. Left their siblings and moved on, westward. Long dashed line of carpenters here, including myself.
Grandparents:
One of basically Scottish origin, but his line appears to be all seagoing types, and based out of the Pacific Northwest early on. They're all fond of papaya and handy with rope, so what culture is that, exactly?
One from obscurely rural Scotland, at age 6. Her father had work tending unmanned lighthouses here.
A predictable match.
Two from some blend of mainly Swedes and Danes in the unviking clime of South Alberta's desert, farming sheep no less, at the edge of the Badlands. Left their siblings and moved on, westward. Long dashed line of carpenters here, including myself.
Drewcifer
Agent of Karma
That was true in the built up areas but on the frontier it was different. Backwoods settlers and indians marrying was not uncommon, try a Google search for the phrase "Metis history" for example. Estimates are that up to 85 million people in the US have some degree of "native" roots, though mostly in small amounts.
Hitro
Feistus Raclettus
All of them were Germans, from different regions of the country and what used to be the country...
Aphex_Twin
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Originally posted by Gainy bo
1/2 Irish 1/2 English 1/2 Scottish
You are one and a half of a man then
