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Hoorahville
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05 Feb 2007, 12:14 am

Irish, German, and English.

Possibly the whitest person on the planet.

Rory
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05 Feb 2007, 4:07 am

1/2 English
1/4 Irish
1/4 Norwegian.

I believe there may be some Jewish back a few generations too.

Hans_Solo
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05 Feb 2007, 5:04 am

TG wrote:

Rhisiart_Steffan wrote:

en_una_isla wrote:

Mother = 100% Scottish
Father = 50% Austrian, 50% German

I thought austrians were germans?

Dude...That's like saying that the Scottish are British!

And they aren't?

shaucker
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05 Feb 2007, 6:12 am

Scottish-English, also some French. I like to get drunk and attack myself

EDIT: Because I'm obsessed with nations and borders... Britain is the island between Ireland and the European mainland. The UK is all of Britain plus a part of Ireland. Scotland is the northern part of Britain. England is the southern part. Wales is the western part. Depending on your politics, Kernow may or may not be just south-west of Wales.

. . .

I also know all the Canadian provinces and territories, along with capitals and other major cities. Someone kill me.

Nagy
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05 Feb 2007, 6:37 am

100% Egyptian ( Since Gn 10 : 13 )

Rhisiart_Steffan
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05 Feb 2007, 8:39 am

shaucker wrote:

Scottish-English, also some French. I like to get drunk and attack myself

EDIT: Because I'm obsessed with nations and borders... Britain is the island between Ireland and the European mainland. The UK is all of Britain plus a part of Ireland. Scotland is the northern part of Britain. England is the southern part. Wales is the western part. Depending on your politics, Kernow may or may not be just south-west of Wales.

. . .

I also know all the Canadian provinces and territories, along with capitals and other major cities. Someone kill me.

kernow is WELSH!

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05 Feb 2007, 9:40 am

1/16 Scot with the rest English.

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05 Feb 2007, 12:35 pm

shaucker wrote:

Scottish-English, also some French. I like to get drunk and attack myself

And Cornwall should NOT be part of England, it is its own distinct land with its own language, just like Wales!

ARW_AS
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05 Feb 2007, 1:22 pm

Generally a white Scotsman (Aberdonian), but let me elaborate:

Dad's side: his dad's great-grandfather Robert Watson, commercial traveller, was from Ireland; and his mum's great-grandfather James Collins, agricultural labourer, was from Ireland too.

Mum's side: her dad's side all found pretty much in the Aberdeen area; and her mum's side may be from Ireland given John Kennedy (her great-grandfather), harbour stevedore, was from the docklands of Dundee where apparently many Kennedys came originally from Ireland. Not relevant (I've already listed occupations anyway!) but my great-grandfather, William Kennedy, iron driller (foreman), son of John Kennedy and Helen Ann Forrest (from Edinburgh) was brought up by two people, who technically, were illegitimates.

Apart from fairly diluted Irish blood, I'm as pretty much 'Aberdeen' as you can get. Haven't discovered any Glaswegian blood as yet: whether that's a good or bad thing I don't know...Good thread by the way.

MelancholyBunny
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05 Feb 2007, 3:23 pm

Hans_Solo wrote:

TG wrote:

Rhisiart_Steffan wrote:

en_una_isla wrote:

Mother = 100% Scottish
Father = 50% Austrian, 50% German

I thought austrians were germans?

Dude...That's like saying that the Scottish are British!

And they aren't?

Careful.

Scots/Irish, pretty much.

werbert
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05 Feb 2007, 3:30 pm

Druish.

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BazzaMcKenzie
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05 Feb 2007, 4:51 pm

werbert wrote:

Druish.

I thought the Druidia was just a provence of Kalathumpia?

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AspieDoug
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05 Feb 2007, 5:10 pm

Mostly of English and Norwegian heritage with some Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and French thrown in. 100 % Aspie by any measure.

werbert
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05 Feb 2007, 5:13 pm

BazzaMcKenzie wrote:

werbert wrote:

Druish.

I thought the Druidia was just a provence of Kalathumpia?

Nope, it's its own planet.

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ARW_AS
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06 Feb 2007, 6:27 am

AspieDoug wrote:

Mostly of English and Norwegian heritage with some Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, and French thrown in. 100 % Aspie by any measure.

Heheh...if we were considered a race of people rather than people with a 'disorder', 'condition', 'problem' etc, we would get on dandy. I think...

jackie31337
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06 Feb 2007, 7:51 am

Mom's side: Polish (3/8) and Ukrainian (1/8)
Dad's side: German, Pennsylvania Dutch (descendants of Germans), Irish, Cherokee (1/8), and a whole lot of other stuff we haven't tracked down yet

It never occurred to me before I posted this that I'm as much Cherokee as I am Ukrainian. :)

Also, I married a Finn who has some Karelian and possibly Russian ancestry, so our daughter is a really interesting mix of ethnicities.

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