Whats your ethnic background?

[CarsonPalmer]

On my mother's side, I'm Irish (and as far as I can trace it, on my grandfather's side from Galway and my grandmother's side from County Derry), and on my father's side, I'm Italian (Southern Italy on both sides).

[phred]

1/4 Dutch, 1/4 Norwegian, 1/4 Scotch-Irish(I think, there may be something else mixed in there), and 1/4 other stuff. I don't think I've ever heard a definitive answer on the various ancestors on my mom's-mom's side.

[Werrf]

Entirely British - I know that my mother's paternal line is pretty pure English (family tree), her maternal line is scandinavian (did a DNA test a few years ago), my father's mother was Scottish with an Irish surname, his father was Welsh, so...yeah. British

[open_sketchbook]

There's all sorts of stuff going on here; lets just go with "European"

[starslayer]

Full German on my paternal grandmother's side; I don't know about my paternal grandfather, although I would wager mostly British of some sort due to my name. A mix of English and French on my mother's side, probably with a great deal more English than French.

[hongi]

Korean everywhere. Depressingly normal as far as I know. I hope somewhere in my distant past there was a Japanese, Chinese, Mongol or Manchurian ancestor.

[adam_grif]

My dad's dad's family is Scottish, my dad's mum's family was Italian, my mother's family was Irish.

[GuppyShark]

Poecilia reticulata on one side of the family, Selachimorpha on the other.

[Pelranius]

Father's side: Han Chinese (Fujianese Teochew transplanted to the Taipei area), probably some bits of Plains Aborigines.

Mother's side: Probably a mix of Han (again, probably Fujianese Teochew), Manchu and probably a bit of Malay on my maternal grandmother's side.

[Kanastrous]

Austrian on my father's side, Siberian on my Mother's.

[Korvan]

Unknown. My family was a mix of Scots and Germans, but I was adopted and I've never had the files opened to check. I've had people remark that I appear either Spanish or Portuguese. There is "circumstantial" evidence of a Jewish background, but I was born in the early '70s where snipping was done quite commonly across the board.

[Kanastrous]

An old friend is of the Moran family (well, okay, *a* Moran family) from Ireland - he's worked out that some time around the turn of the 15th-16th century his ancestors apparently emigrated from Spain, and he suspects that Moran is from marranos, which is to say Jewish Christian converts.

[Skgoa]

1/4 spanish (well, one of my ancestors led the visigoths during the conquest of Toledo - but I don't think that it matters that much genetically by now)
1/4 german (considering the location, probably slavic and not germanic ancestors) from what is now Poland
1/4 german (frisian) from what is now the Netherlands
1/4 gypsi from what is now the Czech Republic


All but my spanish grandfather came to Hamburg sometime around WW2, he came when the Franko dictatorship became unbearable and the post war german "Wirtschaftswunder" made Germany very attractive.

[RedImperator]

German on my dad's side--the first of the family arrived in North America in the 1720s or so. Italian on my mom's--came over from Abruzzo sometime around 1921.

[CaptainChewbacca]

I'm a northern european, but my family has been in north america for about 350 years.

[TimothyC]

1/8th uncertain European, 1/8th Polish, and 3/4ths German (with the earliest known birth in the western hemisphere around 1690).

[Alerik the Fortunate]

German descent on my father's side. His mother's family came from somewhere close to Poland, while his dad's came from the southwest, maybe around the Black Forest area. Don't know too many specifics. My mother was born in Costa Rica. Testing with the human genographic project indicates that my maternal line is native to Central America, (I don't have any of the reference materials with me for details), and her father's y-chromosome is Mediterranean in origin, though difficult to pin down from where exactly. Calvos came from Spain to Central America early on, but there were various adoptions in the family history, so we don't really know exact origins for a lot of family members.

[Master of Cards]

English(Last name means either Tall one (fits well) or long ridge in Devon), German, Polish, Serbian, French, and a pinch of other slavics that I don't know. I just call myself everything from the border of Spain to Russia.

[Whiplash]

Haitian on the Mum's side and St. Lucian on the Pop's.

[The Grim Squeaker]

Jewish on both sides.
German, Romanian mainly, with 1/8 bulgarian, hungarian, polish bits. My great grandparents lives on the borders of eastern europe before immigrating.

[Kuja]

Polish/Italian/German, possibly some Irish mixed in.

[Grog]

My fathers mother was a jew from Gdańsk. All other of my grandparents where swedish.

[General Mung Beans]

Korean.

[Tiriol]

As far as I can determine I'm pure 100% Finnish, although some distant relatives have emigrated over time and there are some very distant foreign ancestors in the extended family tree (that in my case stretches several hundred years back in time). So far as I know my family has also always been Finnish-speaking.

[His Divine Shadow]

Parents are both finnish-swedish, I think if you go back far enough there are finns, swedes and norweigans mixed in here and there.