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whats everyones heritage?

Pure bred German, though born in America. Suits me to be living in Cincinnati!!

wat do u mean by heritage

All I know is that I am Polish, German (on both sides of my family), and Dutch.

i see what u mean i am english born and bred in england :)

Born in Bayonne NJ close to Newark and Im Pure Polish I can speak Polish my parents are from Poland

I'm a mix of English, Irish, French, & Italian...born & raised in England

I Actually am just a lil Italian.From Great Grandmothers side.

wat do u mean by heritage

Like whats your parents or Grandparents country passed on in blood.

Don't know. Don't care.

I'm half First Nations Plains Cree, and half Irish. I don't have much tie to my Irish heritage because my dad's family's been here a while...so my roots are more Cree than anything else.

Don't know. Don't care.

Then we dont care dont write here.

Chinese Facist.

Taiwan. Hehehehehehe.

Though now it's a democracy.

Then we dont care dont write here.
You asked a question. I gave an answer. No need to bite my head off.

Well, my dad's side is a mix of Norman, English and Irish, and my mum's side is a mix of Scottish and Irish. But both sides have been living here for about 400 years, so I don't know how much of non-Irish would be left...

Well, my dad's side is a mix of Norman, English and Irish, and my mum's side is a mix of Scottish and Irish.

Thats cool. can you speak any of those languages besides English?

I'm part Norwegian, German and English. Born and raised in the USA.

English/German/Irish/Lithuanian.

The English and Irish sides are technically "Australian" since they go back to the 19th century, but eh.

EDIT - And the "German" is technically from Lithuania as well, so...

Thats cool. can you speak any of those languages besides English?

None of those are actually languages

English, Irish, Scottish, possibly Welsh and possibly Norwegian.

Not a bad mix? I am a true (possibly) citizen of the UK :D

The possibly Norwegian comes from something stupid like a great-aunt who had a Norwegian 'friend'.

Note to anybody: never listen to 'the history of Clan Gunn' on readplease. It ends badly.

Tried Scandinavian Languages. they are hard to say out the words

Thats cool. can you speak any of those languages besides English?
Nope.

Born and raised in london.

Mother is half welsh, quarter english, quarter irish. Some scottish in there as well somewhere.
father is half catalan, half andaluce.

None of those are actually languages

Irish do have there sense of a language.. but not sure about the other ones

I'm 7/8 danish and 1/8 swedish. Some of the swedish part of me was nobility though, so I'll bet that there is other blood than swedish there. But I will never know for sure, as my great-great-grandmother lost the connection to her family after she got pregnant with a commoner and was uncerimoniously given a purse of coin and put on a boat to Denmark with orders not to return to Sweden.

However, despite my real heritage, I'm Caladonnian by choice. ;)

My first language is Polish I learned how to speak English at 4 years of age

All those with tenuous links to middle-ages scottish nobility put their hand up now!

*hand goes up*

It appears the dukedome of some random patch of scotland is mine if I can kill my entire family including extended relatives and prove that I'm descended from them. Easy.

None of those are actually languages

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

"Scots" is accepted as a regional language by the British Government.


Although it pretty much is English but with different pronunciations and grammar.

Very much irish.

English, German, Welsh ... some Scottish blood about a thousand years ago.

Dad's mom is a direct descendant of Henry II/Eleanor of Aquitaine and King John I... Matilda of Scotland was one of Henry's forebears and her lineage were kings of Scotland, including Duncan I, who was murdered by Macbeth.

It was way cool to figure out some of the figures who were ancestors of Henry II "Curtmantle" Plantagenet.

Im German English Scotish Welsh Irish Norwedigen Dutch Cherokee

Irish, Cherokee, Dutch, German, French, Mahican and I had two great-great uncles who were African, but they were adopted run-away slaves who had been castrated by their owner, so those genes have not been passed down.

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

"Scots" is accepted as a regional language by the British Government.


Although it pretty much is English but with different pronunciations and grammar.

Yeah i've never really thought of Ullans as a real language on its own.

Well, my dad's side is a mix of Norman, English and Irish, and my mum's side is a mix of Scottish and Irish. But both sides have been living here for about 400 years, so I don't know how much of non-Irish would be left...

it is a comfort to know that one's ancestors fought and killed each other hundreds of years ago. hehe (my lineage is that way too... angles, saxons and jutes vs. celts and britons; normans fighting anglo-saxon england; welsh fighting english, etc.)

Scots-Irish I suppose but the scots part is pretty heavily diluted by now

one side of my family immigrated to America from Scottland in 1908 and the other side of my family from Ireland around the same time.

it is a comfort to know that one's ancestors fought and killed each other hundreds of years ago. hehe (my lineage is that way too... angles, saxons and jutes vs. celts and britons; normans fighting anglo-saxon england; welsh fighting english, etc.)
Oh aye, and you were saying about tracing back to Kings and stuff, my dad's side can claim a direct link to Edward II. Not sure if that's something to be proud of...

im scotish english and canadian. but mainly canadian :D and american. my family has been her since the revalutionary war. im like 45 percent canadian but i was born in illinous

half Welsh, part German, Polish, Norweigan and Russian, born in Britain

I'm English, born in the South, but my fathers Bloodline is Celtic( I can trace various ancestors in Scotland and Ireland. I'm pretty proud of this Celtic heritage, but I'm yet to visit Scotland, having a Southern accent wont exactly help up there.)
My mothers Bloodline traces from Eastern Europe apparently, Jewish immigrants to Britain I'm told, so in one way, I couldn't be more British and in another I'm not.
Though I'm not Jewish myself, I do get touchy around fascist ideals, especially those who support Hitler and wish that he had won the war.
I consider them a threat to my life, and I tend to take that rather seriously.

My father has been to Ireland a fair bit, and loves it, although he was a little shocked the time he went to buy a paper from a local newsagents and was told "Don't go in there.......that's a protestant shop."

1/4 Czechoslovakian (when the country still existed, from the modern Czech Rep though)
1/4 French
1/4 English
1/4 Scottish
Bit of Irish mixed in with the English though, but only a very small amount.

Always lived in England. I speak pretty fluent French too since I have half my family living over there (the Czech grandparent went to live in France after having been evacuated to England on account of him being Jewish during the war...)

Scotch/Irish (though mostly Irish), with some Native American thrown into the mix (Cherokee and Chickesaw). There's also some French, German, English, and Norwegian from a loooooong way back.

(the Czech grandparent went to live in France after having been evacuated to England on account of him being Jewish during the war...)


Did he stop being jewish afterwards? :D

Kind Regards

The Grammar Nazi

100% Polish. My father was Polish-Jewish, my mother Polish. Born and raised in Lodz, Poland until I was 10, :).

i'm mostly Irish, though my last name is Scottish, and then i've got a little bit of French-Canadian thrown in

CUBA

Plus a bit of Australian, Scottish, Canadian, and Spanish.

Caddo (that's a Native American tribe) Cajun Irish Jew

Weee!

My parents are Polish. I was born in Canada and consider myself wholly Canadian. I speak Polish and know what my parents came from. Their experiences there were less than wonderful which is why they left and raised my sister and myself to be proud Canadians and to identify with the country they chose to call home.

My family is originally French - beyond the 15th century it's sort of hard to trace. They converted to Protestantism during the Reformation and had to leave France rather quickly during the massacres. They fled to Holland and then to a German country (Hessen-Nassau) ruled by the house of Orange-Nassau. In the 18th century, two brothers migrated from there to the British colony of Pennsylvania where they didn't have to learn English. My direct ancestor (who married Anna Heinz - her descendents produce condiments) fought against the British in the American Revolution and against the South in the Civil War. Since that time, we have all become Catholic (again after 300+ years) and no one has fought in any war (thank God). Most of us still know German, and I am fluent in French. I married a woman whose grandparents came from Slovakia (Austria-Hungary at that time). My grandmother, also of French Huguenot descent from Berlin, always told us that we were part Amerindian - her way of telling us to respect peoples of every heritage.

100% Polish. My father was Polish-Jewish, my mother Polish. Born and raised in Lodz, Poland until I was 10, :).

Glad a pure blooded polish person do you speak polish?

Fourth generation American of Sicilian and Puerto Rican descent.
My Sicilian great-grandparents came through Ellis Island ~1908 or so.

Glad a pure blooded polish person do you speak polish?

Tak, :).

Half Irish, a quarter German, 10 percent Serbian, plus a little Chech and Scot on the side.

Pure blooded Norwegian as far as the records go.

English, although my name derives from northern france.

Almost completey Irish with maybe a bit of Norse too. Born in Derry, Northern Ireland.

Tak, :).
Jak Sie Masz? I speak Polish Perfectly

I'm pretty sure that I'm 100% Finnish.

My mom's Finnish, my grandpa from mom's side is Finnish, his father was Finnish. As for my dad, I don't know anything about him except the name, and that name is a common Finnish name, so I have all the reason to believe that I'm pure Finnish.

And I love being Finnish.

Jak Sie Masz? I speak Polish Perfectly

Fantastyczne! A ty?

Anglo-Welsh-Irish, a bit of German, on my father's side
Completely Slovenian on my mother's side

Geez, I'm the only full blood German in the crowd.

whats everyones heritage?

90% German, the rest sprinkled between british, irish, and scottish.

90% German, the rest sprinkled between british, irish, and scottish.

Sorry to be annoying but scottish is british

Sorry to be annoying but scottish is british

As was Irish for most of the last thousand years.

As was Irish for most of the last thousand years.

Yeah I held back on the Irish part for fear of getting caught in the crossfire of posts

Sorry to be annoying but scottish is british

Ah... my bad. That's true. I meant English, Scottish and Irish. Didn't mean to offend.

Did he stop being jewish afterwards? :D
Yes he did, since you ask. Nice to know there are some people who are aware of grammar though :)


The Grammar Nazi
Good choice of words there...

The Grammar Nazi
Good choice of words there...

Sorry, in retrospect that might have been percieved as insensitive. Know that it was used idiomicly. I had not seen the potential reference to your grandfather. If I had, I would have put a 'no pun intended' afterwards, which ofcourse would have been a lie ;)

I am a Born and Raised Italiano.

One of my Grandfathers was born and raised and lived his whole life in Yorkshire (as I have). After fighting in WW2 he married my Grandmother, who was a refugee from West Germany during the War. My Grandmother having no beliefs that matched the Nazi socialist party, as she spent her life in Britian as a teacher primarily for people with Downs Syndrome.

My other Grandfather was from southern England and joined the Army just after the War as he was too young to fight during the conflict. He also married a German woman (my other Grandmother) as he was assigned to carry out his service in East Germany, but they came back to this country when his conscription was finished.

I always carry with me the thought that if my Grandfathers had of generalised against all German people instead of knowing my Grandmothers, I wouldn't be here. So despite all the ridicule I have met from being a person with German heritage being raised in England, I wouldn't change that aspect to my history at all. Plus it probably stopped me turning into a bias chav that thinks England is sweet.

So I'm 2/4 English and 2/4 German. My English half is made up of one southern half and one northern half. My German half is made from one eastern half and one western half.

I class my heritage to be well balanced without being calculated to be so. My parents were engaged before they even knew they both had German mothers and it didn't become apparent until they came to ready each other before meeting the in-laws as it were.
My second name is Norman aswell, so I presume there to be some roots with the Normans, or possibly with Nordic blood...... although I bet most of us have Viking blood without knowing.

All these mutts running around NS.

Almost totally irish,with a tiny bit of french.and when i say tiny bit i mean from back when the normans invaded england.i think their's still a village in normandy with the french equivilant of my surname for a name.

All these mutts running around NS.


I am a full blooded Italian, & I believe I am the only one on NS.

Almost totally irish,with a tiny bit of french.and when i say tiny bit i mean from back when the normans invaded england.

In which case it would likely be 'almost totally Irish, with touches of Gaulish French and Viking'.

German American.

All these mutts running around NS.

Well your either have to be; an inbred or a mutt. And at some point we were all the first.

Besides a lot of the combinations of heritage have to do with nationality, not race. So techically it's only human conception that divides the roots of a person heritage.

Born and raised in England, by English parents, English Grandparents one side, Irish on the other.

I live in Canada, my mom's half Scottish, half Italian, my dad was born in Rhodesia. Bet you never heard of Rhodesia before. ;)

born in ireland. raised in the US till i was 6 and moved back here. irish parents

im african! :sniper: :mp5: :sniper: :fluffle: :fluffle: :headbang: :gundge:

My father is English (Hertfordshire) of Welsh descent. My mother is Malaysian (Penang and Kuala Lumpur) of Chinese decent.

I was born, and raised in Hong Kong. And I have a British passport.

Yay.

Looks like you are having fun with the icons Amerinazi ?

I live in Canada, my mom's half Scottish, half Italian, my dad was born in Rhodesia. Bet you never heard of Rhodesia before. ;)

Rodesia, part of Africa. Named after Cecil Rhodes. No longer called Rhodesia.

All these mutts running around NS.

Awww, don't be jealous because you're only German.

English, Irish, Scottish. However, this doesn't mean a damn thing, because as you should know, all three countries have been invaded countless times. So, in reality, I could have ancestors from Scandinavia, Holland, Germany, France, and a bunch of other areas. This goes for anyone who says they're english, irish, or scottish.

Edit: Oh, and a small bit of Dutch and Cherokee Indian blood in me. ;)

Rodesia, part of Africa. Named after Cecil Rhodes. No longer called Rhodesia.You mean that other apartheid state that is now Zimbabwe?

Irish, English, French, Sioux, German (Pennsylvania Dutch), Scots-Irish

But none of that really matters. I’m American.That’s all that matters.

You mean that other apartheid state that is now Zimbabwe?

Rhodesia didn't use the aparthied system. The country was governed by a white minority for decades. In fact, it was a british colony until the Unilateral Declaration of Independance in 1968, I think. In 1980, the government was replaced by the black majority, and the country was renamed Zimbabwe, and it is much worse off nowadays, compared to when it was ruled by Britain. My family got out of there in 1953, years before any of this was an issue. Rhodesia was a good country, and named after a man who had real vision. :)

Rhodesia didn't use the aparthied system. The country was governed by a white minority for decades. In fact, it was a british colony until the Unilateral Declaration of Independance in 1968, I think. In 1980, the government was replaced by the black majority, and the country was renamed Zimbabwe, and it is much worse off nowadays, compared to when it was ruled by Britain. My family got out of there in 1953, years before any of this was an issue. Rhodesia was a good country, and named after a man who had real vision. :)I dunno. From what I've seen and read, Rhodesia was pretty darn racist. The regime collapsed earlier than that of South Africa though, but they were the two white states in that area for a while.
I agree it's much worse of nowadays. Mugabe's such a nice guy, isn't he?

Well, ironically, the way Mugabe's running that country, it's actually turned into reverse-aparthied. The whites are being oppressed, including my relatives that live in Zimbabwe. :(

its hard to say what ethnicity I am

I was born in wales (glamorgan to be precise)
my parents are english (one from surrey one from up north from by gaitshead)
my grandparents are indian, east european jewish, and anglo irish
my great grand parents are english, irish, german, polish, various eastern europe of different kinds that I've never been able to track down adequatly

so all in all I'd have to say i'm European ethnically

but my heritage is that of (mainly)European left wing radical on the whole

half Puerto Rican half American(my dad's from the south so I think he's probably eventually from England). I also have a bit of German on my grandad's side. Besides that though, I'm basically American.

Well, ironically, the way Mugabe's running that country, it's actually turned into reverse-aparthied. The whites are being oppressed, including my relatives that live in Zimbabwe. :(That's why he's denied entry to the EU (though they made an exception for the pope's burial)

That's why he's denied entry to the EU (though they made an exception for the pope's burial)

Why would he want to be in the EU? Zimbabwe's in Africa. Or do you mean, he's just not allowed in European Union nations? Pope's burial? You mean he was invited to the funeral? I'm confused now. :confused:

Why would he want to be in the EU? Zimbabwe's in Africa. Or do you mean, he's just not allowed in European Union nations? Pope's burial? You mean he was invited to the funeral? I'm confused now. :confused:All EU countries deny him passage. He's not allowed entry into EU territory. However, there was an exception made to that so he could attend Pope John Paul II's burial ceremony. (I mean, they let muslims come to THE christian head of state's funeral, how could they deny a criminal like Mugabe..?)

Pure Irish; though with American and British citizenship due to my grandfather's father who moved to America, had my grandfather, moved back (Which my grandfathers uncle later returned to, which means I have American reletives - Arizona and Buffalo). Same happened with my great grandfather - Born in England, but both Irish parents, and returned to Ireland. (My aunt moved to England, I have many reletives there.)

Glad that alot of people wrote here thanks!

whats everyones heritage?

Cajun (Acadian); refugees from Nova Scotia who settled in Lousiana around the 1750's and 60's

One-half Polish Catholic third-generation Americanized.

One-half Iraqi Chaldean first-generation Americanized.

i am a mutt...
>8th irish
16th abenaki
scottish
british
4th french
canadian
8th german
16th italian

oh yes...
i am a direct descendent of Charlemegne. :D

Mostly English, partly Irish, historic French, suspicion of gypsy (Romany?) - how else to explain the dark skin?

Korean.

Cajun (Acadian); refugees from Nova Scotia who settled in Lousiana around the 1750's and 60's

Hey! A Neg! I'm Cheramie ... what family?

Dutch with a side of Dutch

Hey! A Neg! I'm Cheramie ... what family?

Dupuy, though from Dupuis, my ancestor (Joseph Dupuis) settled in New Orlenes in 1750 and changed the spelling to Dupuy around 1752 (under some insane idea of people having problems pronouncing it....)... My Grandfather being one Henry Dupuy, a postmaster for Plaquemine Parish, who died in 1973... My dad left Lousiana when he joined the Navy, eventually settling in Virginia (where my moms family is from); though my brother has has moved to Lousiana (near Brusly)... I've stayed in Virginia... and my parents still live here.

Dupuy, though from Dupuis, my ancestor (Joseph Dupuis) settled in New Orlenes in 1750 and changed the spelling to Dupuy around 1752 (under some insane idea of people having problems pronouncing it....)... My Grandfather being one Henry Dupuy, a postmaster for Plaquemine Parish, who died in 1973... My dad left Lousiana when he joined the Navy, eventually settling in Virginia (where my moms family is from); though my brother has has moved to Lousiana (near Brusly)... I've stayed in Virginia... and my parents still live here.

Well that's very cool. Nice to know there's another Cajun around these parts. :D

Italian (25%), English (25%), Scotch-Irish, Cherokee, Austrian, Polish (25%), I think a little German, and maybe some other things. Yep, I'm a mongrel, alright!

100% Persian

I thought my heritage was fairly simple until I thought about it. I'm half Italian from my dad, and half Ecuadorian from my mom. But my mother isn't native, her family immigrated to South America, but I'm not sure from where. She's not sure either. So, it's entirely possible that her background isn't even fully Spanish. My dad on the other hand, still has family in Calabria. I don't think they married out to much, but you never know.

Predominantly German, part Irish, and just a tad of Cheroke and Jew in there somewhere...

100% West Saxon, but I don't take offence if anyone calls me English.

Sorry, in retrospect that might have been percieved as insensitive. Know that it was used idiomicly. I had not seen the potential reference to your grandfather. If I had, I would have put a 'no pun intended' afterwards, which ofcourse would have been a lie ;)

It's cool :) (I was actually laughing...I'm not very sensitive about stuff like that, I like taking the "it's happened, get over it" approach)