What is your heritage?

Nationality: American
Religion: Orthodox Christian

-Paternal Heritage
English, Spanish, North West Russian
--Religion: Jehovah's Witness

-Maternal Heritage
English, Scots-Irish, Cherokee Indian
--Religion: Baptist

Kristos said:

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Nationality: American
Religion: Catholic

-Paternal Heritage
--Paternal: English, Scandinavian
--Maternal: Bavarian, Prussian.
--Religion: Catholic

-Maternal Heritage
--Paternal: Swedish.
--Maternal: English, Welsh, Scottish,
--Religion: Methodist, Lutheran, Generic Protestant.

Nationality: American
Religion: Orthodox Christian

-Paternal Heritage
--Paternal: Irish, English, French, German, Lowland Scots
--Maternal: German, English, French
--Religion: Christian Church (Disciples of Christ), Southern Baptist- further back they were most likely Presbyterian

-Maternal Heritage
--Paternal: Welsh, English, Cherokee
--Maternal: French, English
--Religion: Pentecostal (Assemblies of God), possibly Jewish (or so my great-grandfather claimed- but my grandfather always said his dad was a liar- and didn't believe in anything- so who knows)- further back Protestant Reformed Church (Huguenots)

Nationality: American
Religion: Orthodox Christian (convert, raised Southern Baptist, then Anglican Catholic for a while)

-Paternal Heritage
--Paternal: English or Scots from the Danelaw, then Scots/Irish, some Dutch & German; his family did the usual Scots-Irish migration in the States - they came to the US just before the Revolutionary War, made their way through western PA, then south to KY, TN & MS, eventually ending up in TX in the 1850s.
--Maternal: English, I think
--Religion: some SDA, mostly Baptist

-Maternal Heritage
--Paternal: English, came to NY in the 1600s, migrated west & came in a wagon train from IN to TX in the 1850s; my gf's mother was adopted so I don't know that heritage
--Maternal: German & English
--Religion: my gm was Christian Scientist, but my mother & her sisters were raised Baptist

Nationality: American
Religion: Catechumen Orthodox Christian (in September)

-Paternal Heritage
--Paternal: Irish/American Indian
--Maternal: American Indian
--Religion: United Pentecostal

-Maternal Heritage
--Paternal: Irish/English
--Maternal: German/American Indian
--Religion: Baptist

Nationality:Scottish
Religion: UGCC -- raised Methodist, went Anglican now UGCC

-Paternal Heritage
--Paternal:English
--Maternal: English
--Religion: Weslyan Methodist

-Maternal Heritage
--Paternal: Welsh
--Maternal:Scottish
--Religion: Presbyterian

Nationality:English
Religion: Anglican exploring conversion to Orthodoxy.

-Paternal Heritage
--Paternal:English
--Maternal: English
--Religion: nominally Anglican. Father used to be a revolutionary Marxist atheist, but is mellowing with age into plain old agnosticism.

-Maternal Heritage
--Paternal: English
--Maternal:English
--Religion: Anglican. My grandfather was Methodist and my grandmother Roman Catholic, so they decided to meet in the middle! Always struck me as a gloriously Anglican compromise.

Nationality: American
Religion: Christian, presently unaffiliated but looking.

-Paternal Heritage
--Paternal: German
--Maternal: English, Armenian
--Religion: Pentecostal (AOG), agnostic then Evangelical

-Maternal Heritage
--Paternal: Scottish
--Maternal: Irish (semi-distant relative to Oliver Cromwell)
--Religion: Baptist, Non-Denominational

Nationality: European-American
Religion: Traditional Roman Catholic ChristianPaternal Heritage:

• Paternal: Austrian
• Maternal: Neapolitan
• Religion: Mostly Irreligious, some nominal Roman Catholic, some Greek Orthodox.

Maternal Heritage:

• Paternal: Croatian
• Maternal: Polish-Galician
• Religion: Nominal Catholic, a few devout Catholic, some Evangelicals, some Agnostic, some Irreligious.

NAtionality: Mutt, with a significant amount of Ashkenazi Jew, which is interesting for a guy whose family has been Catholic for as long as anybody knows.

Religion: Baptized Catholic with family back to the original Catholic boats to America, the Ark and the Dove, 1634. Paternal and Maternal sides. Which may explain my super slow consideration of the possibility of converting.

Nationality: Australian
Heritage: Maternal and Paternal 100% Greek
Religion: Greek Orthodox

Nationality: American
Religion: Orthodox (convert from Catholicism)

-Paternal Heritage
--Paternal: Sicilian
--Maternal: Italian
--Religion: Roman Catholic (my grandfather was a deacon)

-Maternal Heritage
--Paternal: Irish/English
--Maternal: Italian
--Religion: Roman Catholic

Nationality: American
Religion: Orthodox (convert from Protestantism)

-Paternal Heritage
--Paternal: Italian (immigrated in the late 1800s from Southern Italy; rumor has it that the family was originally Spanish) and Dutch (immigrated in the 17th century, but my great-great grandmother was adopted into a Scotch-Irish family. My Dutch ancestors had a few scandals in their past...)
--Maternal: Italian from Southern Italy (so also probably some ancient Greek/medieval Byzantine heritage somewhere)
--Religion: Roman Catholic, though my father is Protestant.

-Maternal Heritage
--Paternal: English back to the 15th century. I've been to the church my ancestors worshiped in before they emigrated from England in 1632. We're related to, like, everyone in America.
--Maternal: Swedish and Scotch-Irish. Andersons and Smiths, respectively. Again, probably related to everyone...
--Religion: Protestant

Nationality: American
Religion: EO Inquirer

-Paternal Heritage
--Paternal: Mohican, European of mixed Heritage (German and French perhaps?)
--Maternal: Unsure (adopted by an Italian immigrant family)
--Religion: Non-Practicing Christians of some sort

-Maternal Heritage
--Paternal: Canadian French
--Maternal: English
--Religion: Roman Catholic

We aren't too good at family trees over here, though God knows I have tried.

Nationality: American
Religion: Orthodox

-Paternal Heritage
--Paternal: German
--Maternal: English. My grandmother was a Lancaster - descendant of the House of Lancaster (Lancasters and Yorks -War of the Roses).
--Religion: Nominal Presbyterian as far as I know.

-Maternal Heritage
--Paternal: Greek
--Maternal: Greek
--Religion: Greek Orthodox