I was talking with someone the other day, and we got around to talking about our heritage. Now, I don't know much about where my family came from, but I know that my mother's side of the family is predominantly British (hehe), and on my dad's side, I've got Swedish and all that. Somewhere in there is supposedly either Irish or Scottish, and possibly German. I'm not quite sure on the German though. However, the Irish, given my mother's and my sister's skin tone, pretty much fits right in there. There's also a rumor that my family is related to Edgar Allen Poe, but that's just a rumor. Anyone else? Just thought it was an interesting topic.
For sure, I know I'm mostly Irish, English, and German. I've been told I have Dutch blood, but I'm not 100% positive. I also have a Scandinavian-sounding surname (supposedly Norwegian), so I have some of that in me as well. Basically, this means I'm one pale motherfucker.
Hmmm. Let's see. My percentages are just guestimates, not taking into consideration what has been floating around our family as a "possibility" as well: I know that I am: 50% Russian 25% African American 6.25% Syrian 12.5% Blackfoot Native American and 6.25% Dutch. This isn't including the fact that we don't know if I'm actually part Polish, Armenian, and Israeli. My family is all over the place, not to mention my last name is English/Welsh/Irish, depending on the history, so at least my ancestors way back had some Irish blood. Could explain the reason why despite being Native American, Black, Dutch, and Syrian, there's Harris somewhere or another floating around as our last name for at least that past 3 generations. And of course there is some Hispanic in there somewhere, as my father's middle is name is Manuel, and he got it from his grandfather. So I'm pretty much the world, minus Antartica and Australia.
I have no idea what the percentages are either, but I'm German and Dutch. Even though I'm not really into that stuff, eventually I'd like to contact one of those companies that go wayy back and figure out your entire family tree. I think it would be interesting.
I wanna do that too, and I also wanna see if I am indeed related to Edgar Allen Poe, because then, I'll have something to kid around about.
All I know is that I'm German and Italian. I'm adopted, so I might be more than just that. But so far that's all I know. People say I look more German I guess.
English, Scottish, Norwegian, also one of my grandmothers was adopted. I know that, when she was tracing her family, she found out that she was descended from a baron or something.
Half French (Briton) and Dutch ( Fries). I have my family tree up to the XIVth century on the Dutch side and up to the XVth on the French side. Farmers and sailors FTW!
My mom's side is Predominately Polish/German my dads is like German/French with some Polish but not much. and there could be SOME heritage or family members from Spain because me and my dad (when he was in High School, and me now) look like we could have some Spanish in us, or Greek. Were not sure
I really have no idea. I think I'm just British, but I'm sure that's not the case. Mainly because I could never understand a word my grandparents said.