What's your ethnic background?

[Swede]

I'm mostly Swede,but there is Cree,Scot and French flowing through my viens also.

[HopeFor2006]

1. Mostly Norwegian, Swedish

But also Scottish, English, German and Irish

[Faygo Kid]

46. Half Norwegian, half Swedish.

Confused most of the time.

God jul.

[whistler162]

69. That is the Norwegian in you....

Ducks as Norwegian relatives whip me with lutefisk!

I am Swedish with maybe a little French in there.

Great-Grandfather said one of our ancestors came up to Sweden with Bernadotte at the time of Napoleon. But, who knows I guess, from my father, theat great-grandfather told it differently at times.

[Diclotican]

100. faygokid

faygokid

God jul, og godt nytt år til deg også:toast:

Diclotican

Sorry my bad english, not my native language

[Faygo Kid]

101. Tack så mycket

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year from just outside Washington, DC.

[Mari333]

2. thats what I thought, until I had my dna checked

and it sure wasnt what I thought it would be. :)

[Donnachaidh]

6. so what did the test show?

I've debated having mine done.

[Mari333]

10. It showed I am an Ashkenazi Jew

so you never know!

[Donnachaidh]

13. oh how COOL is that!

Hmm, wonder if I can talk a family member into giving me the dna test for Christmas?

[Mari333]

16. go to dnatribes.com

I am glad I had it done. It dispelled all the stories floating around in the family. we were told 'oh you are irish french english german' and thats about it. but no one ever checked the dna before. now i know a lot more about all those people and where they originally came from. its only 139.90 which isnt too bad, considering.

[Swede]

18. My first cousins found out they were Jewish.

Their grandfather came from Belgian,converted to Catholic,they didn't know til they did a search. They are very dark,with thick thick dark hair,so we thought probably Native North American blood. Isn't this kinda thing so cool?

[Mari333]

26. dna tests really verify things

that otherwise are hazy at best. there really is a difference between genealogical study and dna testing. I traced family members back to all kinds of places by name once. that was fun. but the dna shows the huge tribal references of those people, and goes back farther. so one can have a gr gr gramma from france and a gr gr gr granpa from germany, but they could both be jewish, and you wouldnt even know it without the dna. or african, or whatever.
I think thats why i had it done. to dispel so much family brouhaha.
but now i have opened a new pandoras box :)

[Swede]

28. Fascinating.

I bet many purebloods would be uncomfortable with this technology,but they should embrace it.

[Mari333]

30. I have a feeling

there are a lot of people out there walking around who have no idea, like me. People like David Duke may very well have a great deal of African American dna in them. I love the human genome project, they certainly changed the way people look at other people and dispelled a lot of stereotyping.

[Jackpine Radical]

68. No such thing as a pureblood.

In my case, it's Danish & German, with just a trace of French Canadian (1/16) on the German side. (Apparently a French Canadian who returned to Europe & got tangled up with my German ancestors over there. That was an odd discovery in itself--I wonder if there's some Native American ancestry as part of the French Canadian parcel)

[elleng]

41. Hey cousin,

would LOVE to hear about your pandora's box! But I AM sorry about it.

[Mari333]

47. I will PM you if thats okay n/t

[elleng]

54. Fine. ((( )))

.

[elleng]

21. WELCOME!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashkenazi_Jews

[Mari333]

27. hugs !

:hug:

[tonycinla]

50. Not the same necessarily!

It is more complicated than that.Your male dna haplogroup can be a I1,which is the Scandinavian(Viking) haplogroup but all this means is that your great,great,great times 4 grandfather was a Viking who may have went to the Middle East on a Crusade in 1096 ,stayed there and married a local etc.98% of your genes will be MIddle Eastern,you will look like a Middle Easterner but belong to the "Viking" haplogroup.

[Swede]

53. I watched a show on PBS about the Vikings living in Ukraine for generations.

I live in Western Canada,every 3rd person is Ukrainian,they all have blue eyes and blond hair from that Viking raid.

[Mari333]

56. okay,

well, the graph showed the word "Ashkenazi" on the dna result. Thats where I got it from. hugs.

[ecstatic]

108. how much does that cost? And can they detect any country/background?

:shrug:

[Mosby]

115. It's highly speculative

DNA ancestry testing leaves some in doubt
Former proponents question accuracy of the science

Henry Louis Gates Jr., whose PBS special "African American Lives" explores the ancestry of famous African Americans using DNA testing, has done more than anyone to help popularize such tests and companies that offer them. But recently this Harvard professor has become one of the industry's critics.

Gates says his concerns date back to 2000, when a company told him his maternal ancestry could most likely be traced back to Egypt, probably to the Nubian ethnic group. Five years later, however, a test by a second company startled him. It concluded that his maternal ancestors were not Nubian or even African, but most likely European.

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2007/12/02/MNPQTIG6U.DTL


“Many companies try to link your DNA to racial and ethnic categories in ways that are problematic,” Bolnick says. “These categories are socially constructed, and they’re mostly based on cultural heritage and shared experiences. There’s no clear-cut connection between racial identity and your genetic makeup. Unfortunately, these tests incorrectly imply that there is, so they may encourage a return to old ways of thinking about race as purely biological, which it’s not.”

“It depends on what you want to know,” Bolnick says. “If you want a specific question answered, like, ‘Is there Native American ancestry on my mother’s side of the family?’ then a genetic ancestry test can probably tell you something about your direct maternal lineage. But the tests usually can’t tell you that you’re descended from someone like Genghis Khan with any real certainty. Nor can they be positive that your ancestors lived in a particular region or held a specific ethnic identity. People move. Identities change over time.”

http://www.utexas.edu/features/2007/ancestry/


Rebuilding The Family Tree
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/10/05/60minutes/main3334427.shtml

[PM7nj]

122. .

[ProfessorGAC]

3. Sicilian

Officially that's italian, but when you go to Italy and talk like i do, the rest of the country makes it clear they don't consider Siciliani to be like them.

So, i claim the island as my heritage.
GAC

[Swede]

7. Pure blood?

I am editing this,I hope I did not imply in any way any offense. I just ask,as many North Americans are such a mix now,

[ProfessorGAC]

61. Yep

I know kind of unusual. But, both of my parents were born here, but of immigrants. In those days, the folks who came here lived in enclaves. So, all the italians lived in one neighborhood, the Germans in another, etc. So, while it's not super common, it's more common from that era than you'd think.

BTW, i'm 52, so i'm an extra generation removed from the mixing of ethnic backgrounds you're describing. Folks 25 years younger than me are probably far less likely to be single ethnicity, which would be consistent with your idea.
GAC

[Orangeone]

70. You Probably have

North African blood, from the Moors.

[dysfunctional press]

95. as dennis hopper so elequently expounded upon in "True Romance"...

tarrantino is(was?) one of the best screenwriters going.

[ProfessorGAC]

136. That Very Well May Be

But, my uncle had a geneology done and there wasn't any clear evidence. But, given the situation of that island, i think it's likely you're correct, whether there's evidence or not.
GAC

[Skittles]

86. Sicily freaked me out

my boyfriend is Sicilian and he got tired of going to England with me to visit my relatives - said let's go see where he came from, so we flew from London to Sicily. Beautiful country but the traffic had my nerves constantly on edge. Most of the time it seemed there were no lights or signs at intersections and even if there was, they were routinely ignored. I kept thinking we were going to be hit. Tom adapted quickly - IT'S A GAME! he said, they're challenging me! - but I found it absolutely nerve-wracking. I kept thinking these folk would be shot for driving like that in Texas. :o

[ProfessorGAC]

135. Yeah. There, Barcelona, and Athens

Worst driving i've ever seen. Everyone is driving like their in the Grand Prix.

I was in roundabout in Barcelona, right in the middle of town, where the average speed just HAD to be 55mph. Five lanes, continuous curve, packed with cars at >80kph.

I don't blame you Skittles. It's some SERIOUS driving there.
GAC

[Uben]

4. You name it, I got it!

I'm a little of everything, but I guess the most dominant is American Indian. My wife is French, Syrian, English.

[jeff30997]

15. "You name it, I got it!"

So...you have some Klingon DNA too ? :wow:

[Uben]

22. That could explain.....

....large body parts!

[jeff30997]

81. Lol!

:rofl:

[livetohike]

5. Slovak

My dad was born in Czechoslovakia and my Mom's parents were born there too.

[flvegan]

8. I'm mostly Brit, with a French/Swiss/Norwegian cocktail mixer

with a splash of Nemasket Indian.

[marmar]

9. African-American.....

..... which, because of slavery, means there's probably lots of other ethnicities somewhere in my lineage that I have no clue about.

[Donnachaidh]

11. Highland Scot with a seasoning of

French, English and Irish for zing!

[sufrommich]

12. British,Italian,Finnish. nt

[no_hypocrisy]

14. Ashkenazi Jew

I could generally say Germany, Russia and/or Lithuania as the borders kept moving in the 19th century. Even that isn't accurate. Family lore had us in Spain before the Inquisition with half the family going east to Holland and the other going westward in a Diaspora. So there is no real country of origin ethnically, only an anthropological cultural group.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

42. Same here.

[burythehatchet]

71. Indian - Hindu - Kshatriya

[MineralMan]

17. Scot, Irish, by birth, and Norwegian by marriage.

[babylonsister]

33. 'Norwegian by marriage'

:rofl:

[Swede]

39. Off da!

[MineralMan]

76. Uff da!

Yah...I married a Norsky-heritage woman. It's lutefisk at Christmas with pickled herring and lefse.

Fortunately, I'm the cook in the household. My wife and mother-in-law think that flour is a seasoning.

[TahitiNut]

117. That's what my father would have said, too.

So, that makes me 50% Norwegian and 50% Scots-Irish ... or 100% Norse ("Viking").

I looked as far as I could into my ancestry and suspect I have a African-American great-great grandmother, but it's vague.

[unpossibles]

19. a couple of distant-ish cousins have been working on family trees on my dad's side

So far we're mutts: English, Scottish, Irish, German, French, and possibly Spanish further back. They've found quite a few interesting links, including some that go farther back than we expected. And apparently parts of that side of the family have been in America for many generations. Also interesting to note is that looking at the dates, we either die early (like 30-40) or live to be 80-100; very few in between.

On mom's side, it's more of the same: Irish, Scottish, and French and who knows what else. That side has not been researched as much though.

I think the DNA test would be interesting, but it's not cheap, and it's also not a high priority at all.

I half jokingly say that the two things all of my family have in common is that we're all drunks and we all hate each other. ;)

[CTyankee]

20. English, Scottish, Welsh. I don't "think" there's anything else because

that's where all of my family originated. The Scots came here in the 1790s due to the "clearances" in Scotland at the time. My Welsh and English forbears came here in the 19th century. It's really boring to me.

I'd like to have my dna done just so I could see if there's a little more to me than such white bread, but those tests I hear are very expensive...

[HooptieWagon]

23. About 50% German, 25% English, 25% Swedish

That I'm aware of - there is likely some unknowns. I'm intrigued by the DNA testing, I'd love to discover the secrets in my genes.

[Skidmore]

24. Scotch, Irish, German, a pinch of Dutch, and a smidge of

French. That's my side. For my kids add Persian and whatever mix there--most likely Greek and Arab--to their make-up. For my current husband, African (unknown origin via the West Indies) and Scotch-Irish a couple of generations back.

[Mari333]

36. okay and then bake at 325 for 30 minutes

lol thats what your post sounded like..a recipe..i guess we are all recipes in the huge mix of peoples..
hugs

[Skidmore]

44. There certain was a whole lotta buns in the

oven over the generations,weren't there?

Hi, Mari333, good to see you on the boards again. I hadn't noticed posts from you for a while and wondered where you were. Perhaps I was hanging out at GD-P too much.

[JerseygirlCT]

25. Mostly Irish, one

quarter German.

But have relatives in England... so not sure how/when they got there!

[polly7]

29. Irish, with some English and Scottish thrown in.

[babydollhead]

31. Russian. but my daughter told her class,

"We used to be slaves in Egypt" so she figured we were Egyptian

[Mari333]

35. okay that made me laugh out loud :)

my oldest son insisted I call him "Arthur" for a month. I still dont know why.
Your daughter sounds precious.

[justabob]

32. English/Irish

[fudge stripe cookays]

34. Deutsch, Deutsch, Deutsch.

I'm about 3/4 German from both sides. Different areas: Schleswig Holstein, Gladbeck, and something else, and also some Pennsylvania Dutch, which I haven't fully traced (try looking up Schmidts in PA in the 1700s-- I dare ya!)

The last 1/4 is about a half and half mix of French (Clermont via Quebec), and English (Market Harborough and Great Bowden, Leicestershire. And the others I forget)

[Swede]

43. One of my cousins married a Wong,they live in Edmonton.

There are 10 pages of Wongs in the Edmonton phone book!

[jules1962]

48. Irish British Melungeon and Cherokee

I would like the dna test just to hear what they say about my melungeon roots. The Melungeons originated in northeast Tenn and southwest Va. It is believed they are a mix of white,Native American,black and maybe Turkish. I would like to know for sure. A lot of books have been written about them.

[elocs]

37. English, Irish, Scottish, Native American.

I have always figured that since my mother's first ancestor came here in 1628 and my father's grandmother was a Native American that my roots are pretty deep in this country.

[Adelante]

38. English, Dutch, French nt

[mondo joe]

40. On one side, Sicilian. On the other Welsh and French. NT

[nuxvomica]

45. Sicilian, Spanish, French, Welsh and Dutch

I say "Sicilian" instead of Italian for reasons explained by ProfesserGAC. For example, for "Via Aurelia", Sicilians would say "Vee-uh Ooh-rail-yuh" while Italians say "Vee-uh Ah-ooh-ray-lee-ah".

[Maine-ah]

49. Portuguese, Scot, Irish,

there's probably more that I don't even know of.

[Fumesucker]

51. 100% Brit.. My parents emigrated to the US shortly after WWII... n/t

[SemiCharmedQuark]

52. Mestizo--Mostly indigenous with some Spanish mixed in.

[Are_grits_groceries]

55. Scotch, Irish and Welsh nt

[AngryAmish]

57. 100% Irish

I know, you are all jealous.

[Mari333]

58. go to ireland unless you have already been

Obama is irish too!! well half. LOL

[peace frog]

59. Irish, English, German and Native American (Cherokee)

Could be others but I haven't studied the family genealogy. The dna test is an intriguing idea, might look into it.

[On the Road]

60. Biggest Portion is German

My mother's father's family came from Switzerland to Alsace in the 1750s and then to the US (Cincinnati) in the 1840s.

My father's direct male line goes back to Holland or Flanders in the early 1600s.

Plus an eighth Irish, a bit of French and English, and who knows what else?

[LeftishBrit]

62. Mostly Ashkenazi Jewish, with some Scottish and English (Yorkshire) mixed in

[blue neen]

63. Happy St. Lucia Day!

I'm Swedish, German, and English. :)

[elkston]

64. African American

Though "black" is okay with me too (but not descriptive enough).

[juno jones]

65. Two sides to the family, so different

Mom's: WASP, scottish, English, French. Were kings until the Norman conquest, had to make do with being doctors ever since.

Dad's: Irish, Irish Gypsy (traveler), Choctaw Indian, some English and an apparently German last name.

Edit to add: I've always wanted to do the DNA testing. There are family legends of sea captains who brought home asian wives. And the nappy heads of a few relatives makes me wonder about african ancestors. I'd love to see if it was true.

[Geek_Girl]

66. Italian, Puerto Rican

My mothers is 3rd Generation Italian. My farther is Puerto Rican.

[lamp_shade]

67. Irish, Scottish, Slovenian, Turk

[madmom]

72. 2nd generation Italian on paternal side, mutt on maternal side.

[Blue_In_AK]

73. Mostly English.

Many of my ancestors were Quakers who came over with William Penn. I do have some Cherokee through my grandmother on my mother's side.

[neverforget]

74. Luxembourg, Irish, German Anyone else have any Lux in them?

[PM7nj]

124. Me!

My great grandmother was from southern Luxembourg.

[neverforget]

139. Awesome! Oberdonven, Luxembourg is where most of my family is from

on my mom's side. Her dad was born on a ship on the way over here in 1896 on my mom's side. I also have some Lux on my dad's side too.

[alfredo]

75. Welsh on my mother's side. On my Dad's side it becomes murky. The

earliest mention of our surname was from the "Cambridge History of China." They mentioned a Siberian Tartar Merchant named Murtada Fayd ad-Din Marzian. I've been told I am Armenian, but I can't verify that. I haven't found any hard proof of our name being an Armenian surname.

The Tartars moved west into Europe and the Caucasus. That could explain a place in Iran with our surname, or it is a coincidence. Our name is found all over Germany and several Eastern Europe nations. My grand father was born in Russia. Most of my family is in Germany and it appears they are doing quite well in academia and business. A split happened between the Euro and American branches of our family around end of the second world war. Probably granny was unwilling or unable to help them financially after the war. I have no idea because my parent's generation was not willing to speak of the family's past.


I've married into the Schlitz family, and both our families lived in the same part of Germany and maybe have immigrated to Russia during a period when there was some movement east out of Germany. I might have married a distant relative.

My great uncle was a well known composer. He wrote some popular ragtime songs under the name Mark Janza. He either did that to separate his name from that scandalous music, or to make it appear that he had more clients of his publishing company than he actually did. He was known for his light classical. He was also the leader of the Courier Journal orchestra in Louisville Ky. The owners of that paper have always been kind to our family.

[DevonRex]

77. Welsh, Scottish, Irish, with a dash of...

either German or French, depending on which family geneologist you believe.

[Paula Sims]

78. Ukrainian

At least now I don't have to answer the "isn't that Russian?" question. Hubby's family said they were Polish but I found his father's birth-certificate and his parents are definitely from Ukraine (yea, the part that goes back and forth). So now I'm shattering his self image by calling him Ukrainian. Makes my father happy-er.

[NutmegYankee]

79. 80% german, 15% Dutch, rest Irish/Scot/Welsh

If you saw me, you'd consider me German.

[kas125]

80. My dad's parents came from Hungary. My mom's came from

Sweden and Denmark.

[Kip Humphrey]

82. I'm a Viking mixed-breed mutt.

[GRLMGC]

83. Not complete sure

Mestiza. I'm pretty sure there's some Spanish in there and some Central American indigenous blood. There might be other backgrounds but I really don't know.

[JustAnotherGen]

84. Lots of stuf

Father is black, native, and irish

Mother is french, german, irish

So I say I'm two parts survivor, one part passion, one part stubborn, and two parts temper! :rofl:

[Skittles]

85. half English, half Norwegian nt

[dysfunctional press]

87. one-half norwegian, the rest a mix of german, irish, and english.

my father's side is all norwegian, my mother's side is a mix- i'm also a direct descendant of Sam Houston on my mother's side.

[el_bryanto]

88. French/German/English

Herbert: You, what are your roots?
Advisor: Well, I guess you could say they extend to when the Angles met
the Saxons...
Herbert: Or in other words, when white met bread.

Bryant

[Lugnut]

89. Slovak and Ukranian

My grandparents came to the U. S. in the late 1800s.

[Marr]

90. Irish/Welsh.

[Karenina]

91. 89 and counting!

:popcorn:

[Dappleganger]

92. Irish-Welsh, NDN

[TK421]

93. Mutt...

Irish and Polish from my Mom, English and German from my Dad.

[many a good man]

94. Mostly Irish, followed by Polish and Slovenian

With lots of "smidgens", the biggest two being
Native American
Scottish.

That's followed by dabs of:
Spanish
Dutch
Prussian
English
Belgian

It's amazing what you find when go up the family tree on everyone's mother's side.

[marlakay]

96. About 3/4 Irish and the rest English

and maybe a tiny bit of mutt mixed in...

My husband is almost all german. His dad is from germany and his mom is german also and i forget what else.

[Luciferous]

97. German, Polish, Scottish, Native American, & French nt

[Diclotican]

98. Swede

Swede

100% norwigian:):. And living in Norway by the way, So I guess it dosen't count? But I guess on my fathers side,it would be some swedish becouse my great, great grandparents was living in the border area with Sweden.. In Hedemark

Diclotican

Sorry my bad english, not my native language

[tilsammans]

99. Swedish, Finnish, English, Scottish n/t

[cordelia]

102. Welsh/Irish/English n/t

[EFerrari]

103. Heinz 57.

[Hekate]

104. Irish Stew American: Irish name to the max, but Irish -English -French -German -Pequot

First Euro arrival: about 1620. Someone on the East Coast married a woman who was at least part Pequot Indian. Successive waves of immigration added something new at nearly every generation, and every generation we kept moving Westward, all the way to Hawai'i before the wave took us back to California. I look very Irish, like my birth name.

My husband calls himself Irish-by-marriage (sometimes). He's Jewish: born in Belgium, father from Poland when Russia had it, mother's family from Odessa, but she was raised in Vienna when it was part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. I married into his "tribe", but didn't convert.

Bush et al. renaming the US "the homeland" smacked of a single racial heritage and made my skin crawl. We are a nation of immigrants. I'm with our new president: we're all mutts in this country. How could it be any different? It's who we are.

Hekate

[Lifetimedem]

107. Amen

Did you ever notice that the mutts are the strongest and brightest pets?

BTW I always say I am Irish by marriage.. my husband is 2nd generation 100% Irish

[Lifetimedem]

105. Mutt

Irish, German. Dutch and Alcesion, Polish

[conspirator]

106. Portuguese/Arabic/Black nt

[Danmel]

109. Lots of Polish Jews on my Family Tree

My dad was from Poland, my mom's parents were from Poland ( although she was born in Mexico due to immigration quotas).

[LiberalEsto]

110. 75% Estonian

25% Ukrainian, more or less. There's supposed to be a touch of Dutch and a smidgen of Swede somewhere way back.

My parents came here in 1949 and I speak fluent Estonian.

[pleah]

111. Irish, Shoshone, English, German.

Irish maiden name.

[Sheltiemama]

112. English, Irish, French, German and Cherokee

And if you're wondering what comes out of that, I look like Snow White.

[LeftyMom]

113. Hungarian and Italian, mostly

with a little bit of Scot and some Dutch ancestry, but not much of either.

[ZombieHorde]

114. My father's side is Hungarian, my mother's side is Irish.

[Pale Blue Dot]

116. 99% Chimpanzee

And I can trace my ancestry back to the very first family about 4.5 billion years ago.

[Qanisqineq]

118. Norwegian, Danish, and German

[Drunken Irishman]

119. Mostly Irish.

And a little Welsh.

[margotb822]

120. Oreo

Half black, half Irish and totally hot!!

[firedupdem]

127. my 15 year old sitting next to me now totally agrees with you on the

"hot" part! LOL! I told him I'm sure you're probably not interested!!

[margotb822]

129. It was the Obama stickers, right?

Well, I'd rather not be arrested, but tell him thanks for the confidence boost :hi:

[firedupdem]

132. You know it! You were working those stickers girl! LOL

He's like, she's probably about 18...I told him doesn't matter...she's not interested in a 15 yr old with no drivers license and a D in algebra! (I had to add that to get him to leave the room!)

[csziggy]

121. British, Welsh, Scots Irish

[PM7nj]

123. Most Irish and German, plus a bit English and Luxembourgian.

My great grandmother was from southern Luxembourg. So she was basically French, but Luxembourgian is much more interesting than French :)

[TripleKatPad]

125. Woof!

I take pleasure in claiming I am a mutt. Makes me feel more like a world citizen.

But, if my last name is an indication, then my original ancestors at some point must be from Switzerland. What I do know is that my father's side immigrated from Germany, my mother's side is a mixture of German, English and other European.

I may not be a full-fledged mutt, but I'm tenaciously hanging on.

[laundry_queen]

126. I'm mostly Ukrainian.

On one side, and French Canadian (we traced that side back to France in the 1500's), German & Hungarian. There are stories/suspicions that we have gypsy (Roma? I don't know the modern term for it) blood on the Hungarian side. On my Ukrainian side we supposedly have quite a bit of Jewish blood in the family, and some Polish. I'd love to have a dna done to see.

[sakabatou]

128. I'll just say Eastern European, Russian and Israeli.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

130. Indian (7-11, not casino).

[Jamastiene]

131. Mutt mostly

I know I have Tuscarora in me, and some of my family were from England. My family is too nuts to go around asking them any more. I haven't a clue who my father is and any attempts I made at finding out about at least the Tuscarora background were met with racist comments by my (biological) grandmother. I gave up. I'm just a mutt and happy to be one, really.

[mountainvue]

133. Full blooded Irish.

[old mark]

134. US Mongrel; Half Irish/Scots/Dutch/Osage, half German.

Mom's family was here since the late 1600's.
My dad and his mom came over from Germany after WWI, to Brooklyn, later moved to PA. My grandfather on this side was a German soldier. My dad now lives in South Texas, will be 92 Jan 1st.
We kids have continued this "race mixing" - my wife is Jewish, and my other in-laws are Mexican (Texas variety), Hungarian, and Alabama Cracker.
Our 2 adopted nieces are twins fromm Manila.

mark

[Lyric]

137. German, Slavic, Jewish, English, Native American

[Chiefofland]

138. Dominican, born and raised

Migrated to the US at age 18.

[Doremus]

140. English. n/t

[LostinVA]

141. Irish and Sicilian

[BeatleBoot]

142. The Burning of Kingston, New York, 1777

Revolutionary War.

http://www.newrivernotes.com/ny/kingston.htm


I am an American.

[FrenchieCat]

143. Mome is French/White and Dad was Black

I'm an Obama.

[mr1956]

144. African-American

My paternal grandfather came to the US in 1912 from Cape Verde. Judging from the photos I've seen of him he was probably Creole, a mixture of African and Portuguese. The rest of my grandparents shared the heritage that comes from American slavery. I remember hearing about a white great grandfather who had married into the family on my maternal grandfather's side, but his story - like so many of my ancestors - has been lost to us.