Do you know your heritage?

[Bretrick]

My surname is of Irish descent, from County Roscommon.
The current distribution throughout the world is 81% USA, 11 % Great Britain, 6% Canada,
2% Ireland, and 1% my island home Australia.
So most of my relatives went to the USA.
My criminal relatives were shipped out as convicts to Botany Bay in Sydney and Port Arthur in Tasmania.
I was born in Tasmania so I am from fine convict stock.

 

[Aneeda72]

Do I know my heritage? Yes

 

[caroln]

I'm half Swedish, half English. I can trace my English ancestors back to the year 1515. I can't go back any further than my great grandfather on my Swedish side.

 

[Ruth n Jersey]

Yes, half Czech and half German. A family member tried tracing the family tree and didn't get much further than the great grandparents. The war destroyed so many records.

 

[hollydolly]

yes... Scottish born & bred to Scottish Parents, and Irish Grandparents.. Celt going back generations..

 

[JustBonee]

My ancestors came from a few different countries.. and tracing back a couple hundred years wasn't too difficult.

Italy for all my father's family, and Russia and Greece for my mother's side.

 

[Gaer]

40% Norse, 20 % Swedish, the rest is Irish and Welsh (my ornery side)

 

[Harry Le Hermit]

I would be a mixture of Scots-Irish (Ulster Scot), English, French Huguenot (relocating to Northern Ireland), and Germanic descent. That is assuming that everyone of my ancestors were pure of heart throughout the entirety of their lives and never had any ill foisted upon them. As somewhat of a European history buff, that was unlikely.

 

[Aunt Bea]

My family has been in North America since the 1650s.

I’m a mix of French, English, and German.

I have the genealogy and history but none of it really matters much.

“I am what I am, and that’s all that I am.”
- Popeye the Sailor Man

 

[HoneyNut]

According to the 23andMe analysis of my DNA, I have a little bit of Neanderthal. Amazing how it changed my perspective of Neanderthals.

 

[CinnamonSugar]

German, English and Welsh from my mom; Creole (French and Spanish from Louisiana) from my dad

 

[Murrmurr]

Like most Americans I'm a mixed bag, but mostly Irish and Italian.

 

[Giants fan1954]

100% Scottish.Both parents born there.

 

[Sassycakes]

My cousin did our family history on my Dad's side and I am 100% Italian!

 

[Ruthanne]

My ancestors came from Eastern Europe and further back long long time ago from Africa and Asia.

 

[Irwin]

Lithuanian as far as I know. That's where my grandparents were from, but where they came from, I can only guess.

I think my father was of Ashkenazic (Slavic) Jewish lineage since he had red hair and fair skin while my mother was of Sephardic (Iberian Peninsula) with dark hair and slightly darker skin. I look more Sephardic.

 

[Bellbird]

My ancestors were from Ireland, Scotland,England & Guernsey in the Channel Islands. I've got back as far as the 1600's on my Scottish side.

 

[hawkdon]

Yes I do know it...

 

[Capt Lightning]

As they say, It's not where you come from, but where you call home that matters. I'm from a small insignificant planet in a distant galaxy.

 

[Alligatorob]

half Irish
half Scottish
half English
a bit of German and French
10% "Scandinavian" according to 23 and me
4% Neanderthal
and some other stuff

I know it adds up to more than 100%, but its late here.

 

[katlupe]

Yes, I know mine having done my family tree back to the 1400's on my mother's side (which is mixed, a bit of everything, English, German, Irish, Scottish, etc.). My father's family came from Poland before he was born and that is all I know about them. I gave up on their history.

 

[hollydolly]

100% Scottish.Both parents born there.

I didn't know you were born in Scotland .. so was I... where were you born ?

 

[Giants fan1954]

I didn't know you were born in Scotland .. so was I... where were you born ?

Sorry for the confusion, my parents were, my Mom in Paisley, my Dad in Glasgow.
I was born in Brooklyn, LOL

 

[hollydolly]

Sorry for the confusion, my parents were, my Mom in Paisley, my Dad in Glasgow.
I was born in Brooklyn, LOL

ah, so you're only 50 %Scottish. I was born and raised in the west end of Glasgow.. my uncle lives in Paisley...

 

[Lewkat]

While I am primarily British Isles and Western Europe, my DNA takes me back to 525 AD and I have ancestors from places I'd have never dreamed of.