British and Euro Colonies - Whats your Ancestry?

[Alidar Jarok]

Also, um, Africa.

Oh woops, that's an obvious one

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.

Well, I obviously have a US-centric viewpoint when it comes to ancestry and suggested those things. If I were to talk about Canadian, Australian, or New Zealand immigration it would be slightly different.

As far as Africans being sent as slaves, that's not entirely true, but, for the bulk of history, is generally true. Still, many other nationalities were sent as indentured servants (which were basically temporary slaves) and Australia was populated by convicts (who also had no choice to go there). Africans, even as slaves, were still immigrants and make up a large percentage of the population of North and South America.

Plus, even Irish were sold into slavery when a 1690s law required any Irish Catholic owning land in the east of the island to either be subject to the death or slavery in Barbados, so it's possible to be Irish and a descendant for former slaves (much rarer, though).

Still, the interest in this thread for me is people posting, not the poll, so I guess other is fine.

 

[JuanBolio]

My ancestry consists of:

French
English
German
Scottish
Welsh
Irish
Dutch
Native American

Roughly in that order, based on amount of said blood in my veins.

 

[jamestyler]

Way back in the day Mel Gibson waved a big sword around and killed the English. Hundreds of years later, I was born.

I put Scottish in there but I forgot I'm mostly Irish. Saying that Tyler's English...

My daughter will have Irish, Italian, English and Scottish roots. Though you'd never know it with a name like Ezri.

 

[All Seeing Eye]

I have English, Welsh and Scottish Ancestry but i'm not from a British/Euro Colony sooooooooooooooooooooooooo whatever.

 

[AliciaD496]

Umm...let's see. If I remember right I'm...

German, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Norwegian with a dash of English. Two of my great-grandmothers were non-UK immigrants (one from Norway the other from Germany) so I guess those are the most dominant. My one great-grandma came over as a young child from rural Norway, she went through Ellis Island but they went to Canada afterwards (Alberta, I believe) as part of a homesteading thing. She met my great-grandfather and they ended up settling in central Washington state for some reason, my grandma was born in 1927 and the rest is history as they say.

 

[teya]

My ancestry is Iroquois & Ashkenazi Jewish (eastern Europe).

 

[Miss Chicken]

On my father's side mainly English with at least one Irish ancestor. The vast majority of them arrived as convicts.

One my mother's side - Scottish, English and Irish (Orangemen), all free settlers. At least one branch of that tree seemed to have escaped from France to England as Hugenot refugees.

 

[Garrovick]

All of my blood line is German. Both parents were German citizens. I'm first in the family born outside Germany.

I could have see Poland from my Grand Parents front porch. And the CZECH Republic from the side porch.

 

[thestrangequark]

I'm half Native American, half white. The white half includes Norwegian, Cajun French, Irish, and English, thus, I have a very fair complexion. Most people just see the white skin and assume I'm all white, but I have typical Northwest NA features and body type.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I am of rock-solid German ancestry on both sides, dad's and mom's, going back as far as can be traced. If there is any other blood in my veins, I'm not aware of it.

 

[Skywalker]

I'm a mix of mostly Scottish, Irish, French/French Canadian, English, a little bit of German (I think), and northeastern Native American.

 

[trampledamage]

I know exactly what my immediate ancestry is pre-Canada because I've only lived here for three years!

English and Scottish.

 

[Venardhi]

In descending order: English, Danish, Portuguese, German, Irish, Scottish, Cherokee, Other stuff.

 

[Crusher Disciple]

Mostly English, with a big chunk of German. Some Scottish, Irish, Scots-Irish, Welsh, and French in there too! I'm a Euro-mutt.

That's me, too. And my French is Norman. I like to party like it's 1066!

 

[RJDiogenes]

I don't know all my ancestry (yet), but what I'm sure of so far is: My maternal grandfather was born in Ireland, one of my maternal grandmother's parents was born in England, and my paternal great-great grandparents were born in Norway and Sweden.

 

[PlainSimpleJoel]

Mostly English, Irish and Welsh.

 

[What's his face]

I'm a mix:
Especially with my first name, Erik, I identify with my mom's side of the family which is primarily Finnish.

I also have German, British and American ancestry.

 

[PKTrekGirl]

I'm an American, so I guess I qualify for this poll.

I am adopted, but I know my bio parents, so I know that they came from Ireland (bio mom's side) and Scotland (bio dad's side).

However, I also checked 'other' because my adoptive family (which I consider to be my 'real' family and heritage) came from what are now former Soviet Republics - mother's side from Ukraine and Father's side from Latvia.

 

[Ariadne]

I clicked England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales, but I really have no idea.

I think my maternal grandparents were English (and immigrated that generation) and Scottish (though several generations in)... I have no idea about my dad, but he's a Newfoundlanded so he's probably got some Irish blood in him somewhere. Wales? Just being on the safe side.

 

[Canadave]

Well, as far as I know, I'm predominantly Scottish and Welsh, though I identify a little more with the Scottish side due to my last name, which is about as Scottish as you can get.

Beyond that, there's quite the mix of others... I know I have a little Irish and a little German, possibly English as well. The bottom line is I tick off "Canadian" under ethnic identity on census forms.