Our cultural ancestory

[Vandal Warlord]

Just wondering.... Where are everyones ancestores from?


Please post your resoponse.

 

[Mirc]

You should have added "Other European" instead of some of these options... For example Sweden has only 6 million people, yet Turkey has well over 10 times as much and it's not there (even just European Turkey has almost twice as much as Sweden, because yes, I know Turkey is not fully in Europe).

Ukraine and Poland are other very big European countries that could have well been in before many of those.

All my ancestors as far as I can look back are from Romania, although my great-grandmother was from a Romanian village in Bulgaria (just a few km from where I live actually, only on the other side of the Danube).

 

[holy king]

voted german, then saw "cultural"

 

[cybrxkhan]

Vietnam. However... it is 99.99% very likely I have Chinese blood somewhere, 12.5% chance i have Mongol blood, and there is even the remote possiblility i may have Indian blôd somewhere deâp in my past

 

[GinandTonic]

Mostly English, a bit Welsh and Scottish with a dash of Gibraltese - though I dont know the flavor. A disputed drop of Irish blood too. As I've posted before this makes me almost exactly as British as it is possible to be.

 

[thomas.berubeg]

Hungarian, Minor French nobility, German, and some, a little drop, of irish.

 

[Arwon]

Mum's half is pure Blighty, migrated to Western Australia in the early 20th century. Dad's half is mongrel Catholic, with a strong Cornish presence, some Irish and some Anglo, and one German dude who, thanks to patrilinearity, passed down his last name to me.

 

[Miles Teg]

Mom's from New Zealand, with the average mix of Scot, Welsh, and English. Dad's half is German and Irish. Probably a tad more German, but my surname is Irish.

 

[Red Door]

Italian (Sicilian), Irish, and German.

 

[Aramazd]

Italian and Armenian.

 

[privatehudson]

Almost all English but with some Irish and Welsh relations further back.

 

[Mirc]

I'm the only one yet that's only from one country?

 

[luiz]

I voted Italian, Dutch, Austrian, German, Spanish, Portuguese and Other. Other beign Belgian (Flemish, after they split). Unlike most brazilians, I only have one very distant portuguese ancestor.

 

[Evie]

Almost pure French, except for a dash of native american ancestry.

 

[warpus]

Polish.

It is likely that I also have some of the following blood in me:
Czech, German, Mongolian, Russian

 

[Tee Kay]

South East Asian.

 

[Verbose]

You should have added "Other European" instead of some of these options... For example Sweden has only 6 million people, yet Turkey has well over 10 times as much and it's not there (even just European Turkey has almost twice as much as Sweden, because yes, I know Turkey is not fully in Europe).

According to the Swedish National Bureau of Statistics (the SCB), it's closer to 9,2 million you know. (Btw with almost the exact same GDP as Turkey, for added curiosity value.)
http://www.scb.se/templates/tableOrChart____25891.asp
No need to try to make the place more insignificant than it already is.

Voted Swedish, French, German, Scotish and "Other", meaning Norwegian, but that's going back to the 17th century.

 

[RedRalph]

we really get around!!! I;'m Irish as far back as is known, but my half sister is far more intersting, a Jewish Greek German American mix...

 

[Plotinus]

My parents are English, and I'm fairly sure my grandparents were, and that's as far back as I know (and rather further back than I really care). However, the question is rather vague. Which ancestors are you talking about? If you go back a few generations probably almost everyone has ancestors from all over the place; and if you go back far enough everyone's ancestors are African. Also, I think it's a bit odd in the poll to differentiate between all those European countries (even England and Wales and Scotland) and then lump the whole of Africa together.

 

[Mirc]

we really get around!!! I;'m Irish as far back as is known, but my half sister is far more intersting, a Jewish Greek German American mix...

Finally someone else that voted for just one option!

My parents are English, and I'm fairly sure my grandparents were, and that's as far back as I know (and rather further back than I really care). However, the question is rather vague. Which ancestors are you talking about? If you go back a few generations probably almost everyone has ancestors from all over the place; and if you go back far enough everyone's ancestors are African. Also, I think it's a bit odd in the poll to differentiate between all those European countries (even England and Wales and Scotland) and then lump the whole of Africa together.

I think the point was to get as far back as you know. For example, I probably have some distant Gypsy and German blood, with the intermixing that happened in the areas from which some of my relatives are, but I don't know for sure as I only know my ancestors from 5-6 generations back.

Yet if we base it on looks then I have nothing in common with anyone except my great-grandfather from my mother's/grandmother's side. I definitely don't look like your average southern European, which is very weird IMHO.