Ethnic Make Up

[Thrustus]

Thought it would be interesting to know how much of a diverse ethnic mix us knifenuts are. I'm Scottish/Irish, Australian.

 

[brets-ftw]

50% Japanese (1/2)
12.5% Russian (1/8)
12.5% Latvian
6.25% Irish (1/16)
6.25% Scottish
6.25% Danish
6.25% German

I think that's it. but the family on my European side is a bit muddled. lost lots of documentation a number of years ago and have been trying to recover it since

 

[Tim616]

Irish

 

[Tsujigiri]

50% Japanese
12.5% British
12.5% Irish
12.5% Scottish
12.5% ??? European

 

[mistercory]

1/4 Narragansett Indian
1/4 Saint Lucian
1/4 Puerto Rican
1/4 No Idea

 

[tjswarbrick]

1/2 English
1/2 German
100% American

 

[jayinhk]

I'm actually North Indian and Nepalese. Based on where my ancestors are from, I know I'm part Persian too.

 

[bladebertt]

I'm an American.

 

[wesessiah]

50% anglo
25% cherokee
x% muscogee
x% saponi
i've found it about impossible to pinpoint the amount of muscogee due the nature of the rolls, and saponi because of lack of records for about a hundred years since they joined with the iroquois. so it could even be iroquois instead of saponi. most of my family still lives in or around cherokee nc though.

 

[jill jackson]

In before the move!

Scottish on Dad's side, Irish and Cherokee on Mom's.

 

[Charlie Mike]

Aryan/Hispanic

 

[res1cue]

100% american

 

[djjonny]

Chinese

 

[JPD1998]

I'm American of Italian ancestry.

 

[Gollnick]

I am of emigrant stock. To the best of my knowledge, I am approximately:

25% Norwegian
25% Czech
25% Purssian (Gollnick is a Prussian name)
25% Irish (the part that doesn't show much)

The best explaination of Prussia I have ever heard is: sometimes Polish, sometimes Russian, sometimes German, always confused. It was absorbed non-violently by Nazi Germany in 1934 and not reconstituted after WWII. Most of my ancestors came to the US as refugees fleeing WWI.

 

[mwerner]

German/Irish here I understand there may be a Frenchman in the woodpile if you go back some generations....

St. Louis was the stopping-point for a big wave of German Catholic immigration back in the 20s or so; I don't know if they were already seeing the handwriting on the wall in Germany....
I think the Irish came along later, and they found a more receptive attitude here than in many states due to the large Catholic presence, a situation that continues to this day.

 

[Ken C.]

25% Italian
25% Sicilian
25% Welsh
25% Irish

100% American.

 

[panch0]

75% Spanish
25% Mexican Indian (huasteca)

100% AMERICAN

 

[BA_Colt]

Born and raised in the U.S.A. in New England. I have a Polish last name (no ski) Hungarian, perhaps some Austrian and German.

 

[Trent Rock]

Unknown proportions of Spanish, Native American and Mexican
Also know as Mestizo