What's your background?

[Orthodox Andrew]

Just for fun.

I'm half Swedish/Irish and half Greek.

 

[Nikolas222]

My dad is Greek (Born in Constantinople, i dont consider that turkey) and my mom is American, but her heritage is all over the place (russia, poland, israel, and many other places.

 

[Nickolai]

let's see. hmmmmmm. quite a lot.

off the top of my head I'm: Scottish, Romanian, Hungarian, French, German, and English.

 

[Sergius_Lucius]

Polish (interesting, my mother and father both had Polish grandfathers), Jew, Russian North (Archangelsk), Russian South (Kursk), Ukraine.

 

[Michael G]

German, English, Irish, Scottish, raised Roman Catholic, converted to Orthodoxy when I was 26.

 

[Momzilla]

Finnish, Croatian, German, English. I'm 25% each, but I always list Finnish first because I look most like my Grandmother, who was Finnish.

 

[Suzannah]

Irish...

 

[ufonium2]

Grandparents were: Irish, Irish, German, and Native American. I have an Irish last name, reddish hair and blue eyes, plus I really like beer, so I'm Irish

 

[Sergius_Lucius]

Irish...

 

[Oblio]

Not a lot of details available for me. My adoption file lists my bio parents as English & French.

 

[Cradle]

Greek from all over the place... half peloponnesian (quarter maniot quarter lacedaemonian) quarter epirotan vlach and quarter islander (lemnos)... with intermediate stops in corfu, cerigo / kythera and the trading community of alexandria, egypt.

That's for those who happen to know greek geography

EDIT : actually I love guiness - maybe some unknown hidden irish root somewhere?

 

[Suzannah]

Greek from all over the place... half peloponnesian (quarter maniot quarter lacedaemonian) quarter epirotan vlach and quarter islander (lemnos)... with intermediate stops in corfu, cerigo / kythera and the trading community of alexandria, egypt.

That's for those who happen to know greek geography

EDIT : actually I love guiness - maybe some unknown hidden irish root somewhere?

Cousin!!!!!

 

[katherine2001]

I'm a Heinz 57 variety. On my father's side, I am mainly English and Scottish. On my mother's side, I am English, German, Black Irish, Dutch, and Cherokee Indian.

 

[Cradle]

Cousin!!!!!

"Greeks of the North" we call you sometimes you know - both mad, both eternally rebelious, both with a nominal respect for the religion, and actually the only nations in western / westernized europe still producing considerable amounts of contemporary music on traditional motives.

 

[Photini]

For the most part I'm Native American--Cherokee. Mix that up with some Scottish and German and Irish...and there you go.

 

[Matrona]

French Huguenot, English, probably some Irish, and German. I really don't know. The farthest back my family has been traced on one side is to a Revolutionary War soldier (American side). The other side, well, my mom claims we're descended from French Huguenots, so I bet they are spinning in their graves as their great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-granddaughter has returned to liturgical worship!

 

[Reader Nilus]

100% Finnish. Both sides of my family came from the same village in Finland outside of Vaasa. Strange my maternal grandmother used to baby sit my paternal grandmother in Finland. My parents met and got married here in America though.
Jeff the Finn

 

[Matthias]

Irish, English, Scottish, Polish. I've never met my dad, so I know absolutely nothing about him or his nationality. So, that's my mum's side anyway.

Interestingly, I am related to the great Irish patriot, Michael Collins, and also Mary Queen of Scots, both on my mum's side. Great stuff.

 

[nicodemus]

I consider myself first and foremost American. I have relatives that were born in Alabama before it became a state. However, American is pretty much synonomous with "mutt" so my "heritage" is Welsh, Scottish, English and German.

 

[Moros]

50% Czech (probably moravian) and 50% Germanic. (immigrant ancestor came from Signau, Switzerland, and then married a German girl from the Rhineland, and came to america in... 1728 I believe.)

A goodly number of Czechs today are 50% Germanic at most (including the president) because of the Hapsburgs ruling over them. I consider myself a Czech.