Ethnic Make Up

Multi-euro blended American here. Been blending our family tree here since 1630's when our greatX12th grandpappy came here with the Dutch East India Company. He died at Fort Swandaal when the locals decided they were tired of the dutch dudes and ventilated them with edgy weapons. His two sons were taken as slaves by the locals and eventually sold or traded to Jesuits and taken as far as french territory in and around the Great Lakes. They escaped 12 years later and came back to dutch territory near modern Delaware. One of his two sons stayed on and so he we are nearly four hundred years later. The other son went on to the dutch colony of Guyana and we don't know any more of his story. We have roots but not nearly what the Native American folks do.
 
Half English and, er, other half also English!

My mother's maiden name is Scottish though so there's a dash of tartan in there somewhere :)
 
on my fathers side of the family, they came from scotland/norway but settled in barbados in the 17 or 1800's, on my mothers side of the family, its a mix of arawak indian (lokono tribe, guyana) and irish (odd mix i know) its more diverse than that im sure, but thats the main gist of it !
 
I am mostly lab rat with a plan to take over the world.
Oh yeah, there is some other stuff too.

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American!

Ancestry-wise (many of my ancestors were in North America by the mid-1600's), primarily a mix of English and Scottish (some of the Scots were part of the group in Northern Ireland for a while), with a little French mixed in for good measure.
 
Interesting topic but it can be puzzling. For example, OP, as you may well know, the Scotii were an Irish tribe that invaded an conquered most of what we call Scotland. Mc Mac Pipes plaids Gail So "Irish"/"Scots" is like German/Saxon. With some Scandinavian (German) mixed in.

Franks were a German tribe.

English are - many things

And we are all children of Africa.

Ain't it great to be mutts - like almost everyone?
 
I see a few Italian/Sicilian and Irish mixes. For some reason, they always seem to come together. I, for some unbeknownst reason, follow my Italian heritage more than my Irish. It could be because my grand parents are so influenced by the culture that I want to know as much as possible.
 
The latest Evolution Theories trace us all back to one woman from Africa, I however am a Creationist tracing us all back to Noah's ark and the mountains of Ararat? This would make us all Turks? Which ever way you believe it makes racism look pretty stupid.
 
I've said that likely the only ethnically "pure" peoples on Earth were the Australian Aborigines up until the discovery of that land by Europeans. They had been isolated from the rest of humanity for about 40,000 years...

However, as soon as the English landed they discovered that Aboriginal girls functioned just like any others and that was pretty much that.
 
50% Irish
25% Polish
12.5% Hungarian
12.5% German

If it has cabbage or alcohol in it, I'm in. :p
 
Like everybody else in Panamá: a bit of Spanish, another bit of natives ("indians" -ngöbe-buglé, teribe, bocota, etc., in my province, kuna and emberá in other parts), and negro people, brought as slaves, and being Panamá a transit route, in colonial times and afterwards, with the construction of the Panama Canal, probably every race and ethnic group on Earth: chinese, europeans of every ilk, arabs, jewish, greeks, you name it.
 
American. But the family names come from Ireland and Germany. Made for some good home cooking.

Not sure of percentages, I can't split myself anyways :)
 
Tarheel. :)

To be more specific: mostly Scotch-Irish and some Melungeon, with a few other random things thrown in.

My mother is a professional genealogist, and she's traced our family tree quite a ways back. We've got a lot of ethnic diversity in her side. Don't have all that much info on my dad's side.

~Chris
 
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