What is your ethnic background?

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17 Apr 2007, 10:41 am

I just know that my family goes back somewhere in the British Isles (possibly Scotland)
Then I have just a hint of Cherokee Native American.

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17 Apr 2007, 12:07 pm

I'm half Irish, one quarter Swedish, part English, and the rest is mixed Western European.

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17 Apr 2007, 1:39 pm

Maternal side: Russian
Paternal side: English, Irish and German

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Tog s’eh efil das, roop a tahw! Gniyas m’I taht hsibbur eht tuo krow yllautca neht, dnuor’ ti nrut, gnidrocer siht fo dloh teg ot derehtob s’ohw yrtnuoc eht ni tarp eno eht gnisserdda m’I. Uoy t’nera, tig dlab dedaeh-erauqs, diputs a era uoy?

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17 Apr 2007, 5:03 pm

75% English, 25% Irish.

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18 Apr 2007, 9:22 am

This probably isn't the best time to announce this, but I kind of feel feisty this morning.
I'm Korean & Korean American.

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18 Apr 2007, 9:32 am

My dad was Scottish
A lot are Irish on the other side

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18 Apr 2007, 6:21 pm

mom's mom: German, Irish, French-Canadian, Native American (Blackfeet and, I think, Cherokee), English, probably some others I forgot
mom's dad: German
dad's mom: Irish, English and German, I think. Maybe some others.
dad's dad: English and Hungarian, I think, based on our last name and Grandpa's mom's maiden name

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21 Apr 2007, 10:03 am

Let's see...

1/4 Italian (Crucoli - in Calabria), German (*Baden-Wuerttemberg & Hamburg) on both sides of the family, French-Canadian (Montebeliard; Halifax, NS), Scottish, Welsh, British (Manchester), Danish, Irish, Swedish

Unverified: Cherokee Indian or *Ashkenazic Jewish.