This is for those in the US, Canada and Australia. Just curious as to what you know about your ancestors and where you come from as these three conutries seem to be quite diverse I would imagine when tracing your family line. So where do you hail from? (The six countries I chose are the ones that I only know of to colonise these continents. I included Other to include everyone else)
My heritage is Slovak, German, English, Irish, and French. For my kids, you can also add Scottish and Cherokee. Of course, these distinctions are probably only good back through the 18th century. I like to call myself an All-American Mutt.
I haven't done the research, but I'm fairly certain that my father's side can be traced back to somewhere in England, and my mother's side can be traced back to the Campbell clan in Scotland. My aunt has done some extensive geneology research, but I don't know much about it
Mostly English, with a big chunk of German. Some Scottish, Irish, Scots-Irish, Welsh, and French in there too! I'm a Euro-mutt.
Considering the amount of Italian-Americans and German-Americans, I would probably have included those in your poll. I'm 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Italian, and 1/8 Scottish (Scotch-Irish to be more specific), German, Polish, and Swedish.
Of those: England, Ireland, Scotland, Spain,and Other (Mexico, Germany and right the fuck here aka Native American). My dad's side of the family has been here a very, very long time, so some of that is speculation and we've probably missed things as well. eta: Italy and Germany should certainly be on there. Also, um, Africa.
Yeah--that last one was a rather glaring omission. As for myself... 25 per cent Orange Irish plus 25 per cent Green Irish plus 25 per cent Danish plus 25 per cent Hungarian ...equals "Canadian," as far as I'm concerned. Though most of my best genes seem to have come from my Danish ancestors.
Scottish, Irish, English and Italian on my fathers side. English and Dutch on my mothers side. The earliest colonizing ancestor that we have been able to find was from my mothers side, from England and settled in Massachusetts in the 1630's. He was not aboard the Mayflower.
Mostly English, Scottish and German--but if you go back far enough, there's pretty much most of Northern Europe in there, too. In other words, I'm the palest person on the planet.
I don't mean any disrepesct but I didn't deliberatley leave out Africa and I do realise that there would be a lot who would have ancestry from there but I was only including countries that officially colonised these continents and (afaik, and forgive me if I'm wrong) Africans were only sent to America as slaves which is why I included it as Other. Also I forgot about Italians but didn't know about Germans which is why the Other category is there. Probably should've looked into the history more before posting.
I'm not sure what who colonized what has to do with ancestry. I think you'd have done better to not include a poll at all of what you yourself have pointed out are quite diverse countries. No disrespect/offense taken, though. That said I am [sayid]"an Other"[/sayid]. 3/4 West African (about as specific as I can get with that, sadly) and 1/4 Italian.