<p>…that’s if you care to share. I’m just curious. Thanks.</p>
<p>I’m a Blue American. Middle of the woad, so to speak. Definitely some Celtic ancestry.</p>
<p>Is that so, Thedad? Which specific country is your Celtic ancestry rooted in? </p>
<p>you know, I think I hate politics.</p>
<p>I am a Melting Pot. One-quarter Russian Jew, one-quarter Rumanian (we think) Jew, one quarter Irish Catholic, one quarter undefined mix of British/German Catholic. DS is even more “melted” as he gets all that plus some Genuine WASP stuff from DH, whose mother was able to trace back to that DAR/Mayflower Society stuff. Now, we just need DS to find a sweetheart with Asian/Latin/Mediterranean/Scandinavian components and we will have almost all bases covered.</p>
<p>Greek American … all my grandparents came over on a boat in the early 1900s.</p>
<p>according to my sister who is LDS and so had to research everything as far as she could- on one grandparent side- we arrived in US before 1776 from northern europe, another grandparents lineage has been traced back to 14th century French Hugenots- there is also some German from Russia- Scotch-Irish- & English
I think I must have the bulk of the Scotch Irish as I am the only one in my family with red hair ;)</p>
<p>Texan ;)…</p>
<p>Before that probably English, Scottish (Bewley), and assorted mongrels. American Indian on both side, Mom is a quarter.</p>
<p>I consider myself “New England” on both sides. Can find the connections to the Rock if need be.</p>
<p>I’m 3/4 Irish (lineage has been traced back to the middle ages on my mother’s side) and 1/4 English. In fact, my mother had difficulty gaining her family’s approval to marry my father because he was 1/2 English! Husband’s family is Swedish, with Polish and German thrown in, so our kids are northern European mutts. I think it would be much more interesting to have bandit_TX’s American Indian background!</p>
<p>1/4 French, 1/4 Norwegian, 1/4 Swiss, 1/4 Scotch Irish. Red hair and pale skin. Married to a man from India.</p>
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<p>Here’s a fellow Romanian, jmmom. Which area of Romania?</p>
<p>To the best of my current knowledge I am three-fourths Galitzianer and one-fourth Belorussian (all Jewish). I come from a long line of tailors and peddlers.</p>
<p>British, French, Welsh, Scottish, Swiss, Dutch,German… your basic WASP combo.</p>
<p>1/2 WASP --pretty much the next boat after the Mayflower.</p>
<p>1/2 Jewish middle European mixture (German, Polish, Hungarian)</p>
<p>H is all Irish (though the family attributes the black hair brown eyes of many of them to either gypsies or Spanish Armada castaways.)</p>
<p>my children are</p>
<p>1/4 Polish Jew
1/4 Russian Jew
3/8 Irish (Gael)
1/16 Irish (Scotch)
1/32 WASP
1/32 Dutch</p>
<p>7/8ths English + 1/8th Welsh = 100% British, which is surprising since I’m 5th generation American on my mother’s side and 7th generation American on my father’s side. Would have thought there would be at least a German or Irish or French ancestor in there somewhere, but no – all lines back to Europe lead to Britain. But it allows to me joke that even after all these generations we still retain and speak the Old Country language in our home.</p>
<p>Three guesses what mine is.
My H’s dad was also “off the boat” from the Emerald Isle. Needless to say, we have strong connections still to family there, and love visiting yearly. My kids can even speak some Gaelic- the great aunts and uncles are commited to teaching the “young Yanks” of the family.</p>
<p>Scotch/Irish/German/English in fairly equal amounts</p>
<p>galwaymom, it’s great that your kids are learning some Irish. My parents immigrated with three children and one on the way (me!), and used to speak Irish to one another when they didn’t want us to know what they were talking about. We could understand some, and speak some phrases, but reading it is out of the question! The first time we went back, I was nine, and it was so strange to see the spelling of words I’d hear so often. We still keep in touch with cousins and the remaining aunts, and took our kids to visit a few years ago.</p>
<p>Galwaymom–my D spent the summer in Galway a few years ago in an Irish immersion program, living with an Irish speaking family. It was a wonderful experience for her!</p>