Ethnic Make Up

Mick & Spick here.
Me and my brother Shamus! :D
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American mutt

European: Polish, Irish, Scottish, Czech, Austrian, Lithuanian, Latvian, Estonian, Russian

Asian: Cossack and Mongolian

American: Blackfoot, Cherokee and Crow
 
3/8 Norwegian, 3/8 English, 1/8 Scottish, 1/8 Danish.

I like to think of myself as "mostly Viking"
 
Thrustus said:
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.
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Ararat or Urartu wasn't Turkish in those days. Turks came in with the Mongol invasions much more recently. The area was Armenian and Kurdish, two ancient peoples probably related to the Jews. We need more genetic analysis to be sure.
 
50% Hungarian (Dad came over in 1956)
25% German decent
25% Puerto Rican (Grandma and Grandpa met and married there, and that's where Mom was born in '45)
 
Well, Mizes paid taxes in Mass. before 1700. Best bet they were protestant Alsatian Germans, migrated to Hugonaut France then to Scotland before embarking to the new world.. Mamas side Welch and McCrory. There is an obscure McCrory tartan. The Mizes also had the Eddings and the Vennables in the family tree. My Great great Aunt Annie had a book of genology research that followed the Vennables back to the court of King Alfred, supposedly. It's loss was a family topic of conversation amoung the older generation, now gone. So Scotch-Irish (which is the traditional term, really Protestant North Irish) and German and english. Typical KY pioneer folk.
 
I've traced my ancestry back to 1100 in some cases, and it's heavily German, then secondarily English. There are counties named after my ancestors in three states that I have found so far. We've been in this country since before the Pilgrims in many cases. Fought in all of the wars. One of my ancestors was appointed a major by George Washington.

My wife's family had 3 brothers come over from Europe in the 1850's - 1 said he was from Poland, 1 said from "Russia (Poland)", and 1 said from Germany - which shows how the borders changed during that period.
 
dad's side = english (mostly welsh quakers), dutch and some native american. my GG grandmother was either a local cherokee or of local sioux decent.

mom's side = mostly german lutherans with some english (quakers), irish and dutch. some of her distant relatives were the orginal white inhabitants of the area we currently live in. mostly german lutherans. i can date my family here back to 1600's America. i am about as american as it gets here. they floated in from up north to the Hillsboro NC area in the early to mid 1700's. most migrated down to NC in the late 1700's about the time the war broke out. either they were against all war or they were somewhat forced out for religious reasons. still working on that one. also found i had a few GG (however many) grand fathers that fought in the Rev. war, civil war and etc. i found that pretty neat. i have a many G father ago was in the Georgia Militia Cavalry during the Rev War. how he got down there from here i dunno. he was born in NC but ended up in Ga. perhaps his wife was from there. dunno

one more cool fact on my my mother's dad's side. we are related to the Starbuck and Coffin family of Nantucket Island. they were the original purchasers of the island and were famous ship captains and whalers.
 
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Gollnick said:
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.
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Until 1870 there was no real Germany but a bunch of independent states. Prussia with Berlin as its capital was (one of) the biggest states and with Bismarck as its chancellor led to the formation of Germany. By that time large parts of Poland belonged to Prussia as well. They were taken away from Germany after WW1.
From my point of view it is german. Perhaps not their entire area, but quite a bit of German history is based on Prussia and their actions and the important places are still in Germany. Plus their formal language should have been German. (?)

It might be interesting to know what polish people would say about Prussia and what they were taught in school.

@ topic: I'm german.
 
Both sides of my family have ancestors that came to North America before it was USA. Guessing that makes me American, with little bits of mutt thrown in along the way:D
 
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