View Full Version : What is your native background?
What country are your ancestors from? :w00t:
Crimson Shadow
08-26-2008, 06:32
Germany & Netherlands
jasonlfunk
08-26-2008, 08:18
Mainly Germany.
Saarland (now Germany) and China (South and North)
100% Dutch, as far as i know
Missionary
08-26-2008, 12:32
aparently my decendants are vikings, thats about as fa back as i know. that ran enough ? lmao.
although im like a 1/4 scottish, i regularly beat and mame 1/4 of my body lmao.
Mr President
08-26-2008, 13:20
i regularly beat and mame 1/4 of my body lmao.
this explains a few things....
ooga booga
08-26-2008, 13:24
50% Italian
45% Irish
4% German
1% Scottish
All roughly speaking... :)
El Mestizo
08-26-2008, 13:31
I got some fam from Ireland. I believe my father's grandparents made the trip. Also I can trace back to Germany and Scotland. My mother's parents are from Puerto Rico, which means I also have a chance of having some Spanish in me, altho her parents came from an area with more of an indiginous population.
lets see British, German, Hungarian, Austrian, Irish, and i believe some Russian :D
100% American :P
American indian 1/16
German 1/8
Irish 1/4
Polish 1/4
Brittish 1/4
Italian 1/16
100% MUTT
how do you actually keep track of that?
Max Logan
08-26-2008, 15:45
Its nice to see how many diff (or just) nationalities people know
Ok, this is mine:
http://drjamesgalyon.files.wordpress.com/2008/04/china-flag1.jpg
half spanish, half filipino..
deutschland
and 1/4 irish.
Ahh and now you see that my alcoholism is just :)
Geneology report..
and they can trace that? scary thought...
50% irish
25%German
20% Sweedish
5% Scottish
Viking->Scotish->Canadian=Red haired Blue eyed Demon ;)
20% Vodka
60% Lager
10% Bailey's
6% Italian
4% Scotch
hence my common joking of being born 100% alcoholic
100% Dutch, as far as i know
I thought the dutch were all far too drunk to remember where their parents came from...
or to even remember where they were 30 mins ago....
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German/Polish/Hungarian
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::LD::GrimReapr
08-27-2008, 12:59
German/Dutch and Indian i believe.
Max Logan
08-27-2008, 14:23
where you found an Indian in Germany or Netherlands?
they probably all found eachtoher i nthe US
its itneresting how noone claims american heritage.. even after like 3 centuries of existance...
germany only exists for only 2 centuries yet apparantly every second guy here has german heritage.
Well, this thread asked for our heritage, not where we were born... And technically i did claim american heritage when i said was was 1/16th american Indian so :P
well the more intersting questions is in that case, when did your ancestors first arrive i nthe US.
because people with ancestors who moved to the US before around 1880 ca't claim german heritage
heritage is an american thign anyway.
the only peopel i know here who know about their heritage from more tha n2 generations ago, are peopel with royal heritage or industrual family clans.
Max Logan
08-27-2008, 15:39
American natives=British
American natives=British
Not necessarily.
im a direct descendant of an American Revolutionary hero which i think is pretty cool
Max Logan
08-28-2008, 12:40
or so your mom says
who are you referring to Max?
Max Logan
08-28-2008, 12:56
rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrraul
El Mestizo
08-29-2008, 13:13
well the more intersting questions is in that case, when did your ancestors first arrive i nthe US.
because people with ancestors who moved to the US before around 1880 ca't claim german heritage
heritage is an american thign anyway.
the only peopel i know here who know about their heritage from more tha n2 generations ago, are peopel with royal heritage or industrual family clans.
America is a country of immigrants. The "melting pot" even though its more of a salad bowl, because even though everyone comes here looking to assimilate, we all still retain our own culture to some extent.
I'm sure people in other countries other than america who's families don't originate from that country have pride in their own heritage. I doubt its uniquely american.
But at the end of the day, when asked what country we're from, the answer is America. However, the only people who could claim America as a "native background" would be those people we know today as Native American Indians and Mexicans.
The First Lady
08-29-2008, 21:13
Mostly Italian
about 1/4 Native American Indian
El Mestizo
08-29-2008, 21:16
Do either of you know what tribe?
America is a country of immigrants. The "melting pot" even though its more of a salad bowl, because even though everyone comes here looking to assimilate, we all still retain our own culture to some extent.
I'm sure people in other countries other than america who's families don't originate from that country have pride in their own heritage. I doubt its uniquely american.
But at the end of the day, when asked what country we're from, the answer is America. However, the only people who could claim America as a "native background" would be those people we know today as Native American Indians and Mexicans.
its definately not a europena thing. i know plenty of people with french, polish or whatever heritage. noone embraces it, or cares. its not like anyone ever talks about heritage here. We kinda stoped doing that after the de-nazification.
American natives=British
We bloody well aren't.
Grendel Khan
09-01-2008, 19:45
Bloodline: Primarily Germanic, English, a tiny bit Seneca.
Family name seems to find it's way back to Denmark, it's definitely Nordic in origin and most likely from the Anglo-Saxon invasion of England. Because There was already a land holder in prominence, that had my surname. when the Domesday book survey happened.
Old English version of my Surname: Raedwulfson (son of the little council wolf)
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