What's your cultural background?

[pennydreadful]

Thought this would be an interesting thread, as we're all such a diverse bunch! And I know we've got a few Irish lads and lassies here, so I'm wondering exactly how many there are.

I'll kick off - my heritage is Irish/Italian... not sure about my father's side of the family but my great-grandparents on my mother's side emigrated to Australia from Ireland.

[Dirty Blond]

Baltic (Latvian) and Nordic (Swedish).

[DarkFell]

Going from what my dad told me.

Irish
Native American
British
French

Prolly other cultures too. I'm a half breed. Proud of it all.

[Jephael]

My mom's family is Pennsylvania Dutch, and I believe my dad's family is of British decent.

[Raph's Girl]

Heinz 57 but mostly Finnish, Swedish, German, Scottish, Irish, and Swiss with a pinch of Dutch.

Like alot of people I grew up with the "We got native ancestors!" story. Im gonna be taking a genealogy DNA test later this year (can't afford it right now) to see if I indeed do or not.

[snake]

100% murrican

[Cure]

Colombian. Though I recently found out I could pass off as black, I guess.

[Prowler]

100% Lusitanian as far as I know.

[IndigoErth]

Another Heinz 57, mostly of the mixed European variety (off the top of my head Scottish, English, prob Irish, German, Welsh, god knows what else) with a touch of American Indian on either side thrown in for good measure. I believe Scottish and English make up the larger amounts, but it's so cobbled together from bits and pieces across generations, I'm not entirely sure the percentages of each and none of it is exactly in sizable quarantines. (Though my maternal grandmother was born a Boyd and was rather proud of her Scottish heritage, though she was undoubtedly a mix herself, even if she wouldn't admit it.) My family, at least the larger European part, has been in the U.S. since at least the 1600s if not longer, so there's been plenty of time to mix it up. A little of this, little of that, a lot of not caring to pass down genealogy info.


Edit: Although the thread title technically asks for cultural background, so in that case... just plain old American, east coast/mid-Atlantic to be precise.

[ToTheNines]

Throw five or six darts at a map of western Europe and that'll be me, most likely. Just a boring ol white boy.

[Jester]

Originally Posted by ToTheNines

Throw five or six darts at a map of western Europe and that'll be me, most likely. Just a boring ol white boy.

This....plus a smidge of Native American that doesn't show.

[AT-Man]

I heard there's some German in there but as far as I know, I'm just Finnish.

[Powder]

German/Irish/English/Dutch & prolly all kinds of madness wayyyy down the line that nobody is alive to know about, like everybody else.

[CaliperCat]

Heinz 57 as well. My last name is German (and 10 letters long!), but I'm mostly Scotch-Irish on my dad's side. On my mom's side, I've got French, and my great grandfather was Scandinavian by way of Sweden, I believe. For all I know, there's more I don't know about.

[Katie]

Half Creek half white. Probably have some Black back in my Creek ancestry. Where my ancestors lived was Melungeon territory.

My white ancestors are from Canada and migrated to Washington state and Alaska during the gold rush.

Good scholarship money from that brown card too.

[ssjup81]

Hm, as a black in America, don't know much about my ancestry for obvious reasons...but was born in the US.

[CyberCubed]

Going back to all 4 of my grandparents they were all born in the U.S. as standard white Americans. Going further back to great grandparents they hail from a mix of Russia, Spain, Turkey and god knows where else.

But since I am a third generation American with no distinguishing features other than being white...I am just a white boy. Going further back than grandparents would obviously yield a whole mix of countries for anyone.

[Machias Banshee]

I'm a bit of Heinz 57 as well... Several European countries and either Puerto Rican or Portugese, based on my grandmother's story of her father being a motorcycle cop in Nova Scotia... I'm sure there's some Irish in there somewhere, too.

[Lethal Lullaby]

I've got Korean (South, if it makes any difference) from my grandma, then from what mom has told me I'm part Irish, German, Italian,, and well I can't really remember what else. Basically 3rd generation Korean with some European. Oh and a little bit of Native American from Dad's side.

[MsMarvelDuckie]

hmmm. Neat topic. From my mom's side, I've got Irish, Scottish, and French (Granddad) and German (grandmother) as well as a bit of "Black Dutch" (aka mixed German Gypsy/Native American) most likely from my granddad.

From my (alleged) dad's side, I apparently have Apache and I'm not sure what else. But my last name is Irish, and one of my uncles (adopted) did a family geneology search that traced the Irish roots back to three brothers in 1849, and I've searched the family heraldry and origins back as far as 1100's in Ulster. Supposedly, there's even a castle with our name on it!! Have yet to confirm this, however....