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snowguy716
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« on: August 03, 2009, 06:00:43 PM »

I've been doing a little digging and more or less, I'm a mutt... but tracing back family lineages, I'm:

30% Scottish, 15% Irish (though even a good portion of that originated in Scotland), a quarter Norwegian, 20% Swedish, and the other 10% is a mixture of German, English, Welsh, and French.

So, most of my ancestry is Celtic and Scandinavian.. I know little of the Scandinavian heritage because that comes from my mom, who was adopted.  My paternal grandmother was 100% Scottish of the MacLaren clan and my paternal Grandfather was 75% Irish from the McGirrs who originally came from Scotland. (MacAngheearahagehfhbh.. ya know.. typical Gaelic screwery)
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« Reply #1 on: August 05, 2009, 08:40:12 PM »

1/4 Italian (Sicilian)
3/4 Eastern European Jewish (Russian, Latvian, Polish), the latter has a German last name so likely ancestry to Germany but can't confirm.

BTW, how are we distinguishing between ethnicity and ancestry?

Good question.

While my ancestors came from Ireland, Scotland, Norway, Sweden, France, Wales, England, and Germany.. the vast majority of my ethnicity could be traced to Scotland and Norway.

There is significant Norwegian blood in the Scottish line and significant Scottish blood in the Irish line (the men came from Scotland and married local Irish women).

I guess it just depends on how far back you want to go.
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« Reply #2 on: August 08, 2009, 09:37:55 PM »

i am russian. But i am not in a hurry. Tongue

pa dum tshhhhh...

By the way Disraeli, British is a nationality, not an ethnicity.  Just like I can't say "I'm  Minnesotan"

Minnesota is a political boundary, not a historical human population.
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