What is your ancestry?

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English
German
Scottish

Just to make it complicated;
My mother English (her father is half Scottish).
My dad was either 100% German or half German and half English.

Although I'm directly descended from Slovak immigrants on my fathers side (2011 is actually the 100th anniversary of my family's living in America), I am really:

50% Scottish (mother is 100%)
12.5% Slovak (father is 25% of this and the following)
12.5% Hungarian
12.5% Welsh
12.5% Englishman

In short, I'm half Slovak, half various British.

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87.5% Various British (I have no idea what proportions of English/Welsh/Scottish/Irish my family are)
12.5% North Italian (My great-grandfather came from Genoa and was an ice-cream seller)

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100% Chinese

100% Icelandic

I have so many different ethnicities in my background, so I have NO idea about the percentages. I will try and keep it from most to least as best I know, but I could be off even there.

German
Acadian
French
Swiss
English
Scottish
Irish
Dutch
Mi'kmaq
African-Canadian

As near as I can tell, 100% English back through 6 generations on my Father's side and following a southwards migrational drift from the Lincolnshire area down to where the last 3 generations settled (London and/or Hertfordshire). There are some hints of earlier Dutch ancestry.
My Mother's side is less clear owing to lost family history, but was Hampshire (south-west of the current area) for at least 3 generations prior to hers.

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100% Eastern European & Northern European mix

My ancestry? It's been traced back quite a ways, much farther than anyone else in this thread has yet posted. I didn't do the genealogy work myself though. I had thousands of scientists working the past hundred fifty years or so do it all for me. Much has been learned especially the past twenty years about the cladistic relationships of my ancestors. Some of the old descriptions about my family history still often quoted (fish to amphibians, amphibians to reptiles, reptiles to mammals, etc.) are actually wrong.

I don't know too much from before my ancestors became vertebrates, but about 375 million years ago, maybe as long as 400 million years ago, some of my fishy ancestors evolved to "fishapods", perfectly intermediate between fish and tetrapods. Others of my fishy ancestors remained fish. Many died out but some evolved to become the fish of today. Relatively soon after tetrapods made their way onto land, some of them evolved to become amphibians, while others became amniotes.

Some of the amniotes became synapsids and some became sauropsids (leading to reptiles and birds). Some of the synapsids evolved to become mammals. Some of those mammals eventually became monkeys. Some of the monkeys became apes; many died out, others evolved to become the monkeys of today. Some of those apes became hominids, many died out, some evolved to become the modern apes other than the great apes. Most hominids died out, but some of them evolved to become the great apes of today (Orangutans, Gorillas, Chimpanzees, and Humans). Modern humans are a species of ape but still a highly-derived fish if you go back far enough.

Two of my most famous ancestors are Tiktaalik, one of those "fishapods" from the late Devonian period, and Australopithecus afarensis, much much much more recent (only about 3.5 million years ago). Now it may be that neither of these are actually my direct ancestors. They could have been side branches of my ancestral family tree that died out without leaving any descendants. However, they are most definitely family.

As far as I know, 100% Norwegian.

English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh on my Dad's side.
Dutch, French, and German on my Mom's.

75% Japanese
25% German/Jewish

100% AMERICAN

75% german/ french (depending on year and occupational forces), my family speak german and associate with being german. 1/3 of this is strong swedish marrying back and forth stuff. So we will say German with swedish Heratage.

25% English. Maybe less. My mother thinks one of her grandparents was from Germany too. I will probably never know much about this 25%.

My ex husband was 100% English heritage. So my children are 2/3 English heritage.


We are Australian 100%.

Is anyone considered to be "pureblood" ethnically nowadays? It could be that we don't get a lot of these "pureblood" africans with autism on WP because they are mostly in Africa where autism is barely known enough to get diagnosed and also with so much poverty, most have never seen a computer. Not to mention some don't even speak English to post on WP and some of the African aspies/auties who do speak English most likely don't know how to read. I am talking about those who just live in Africa.

As for me, I'm Russian and Ukranian.

As far as I know I am german, british, native american, irish, scandinavian and belgian as far as I know. I know my moms side of the family has german, british and irish and my grandma on my dads side is a full native american. Then as far as I know the rest of my dads side was of nordic decent and somehow ended up in belgiam before migrating here.

25% Irish and Scottish
25% English
25% Unknown
25% French... with Scandinavian connections going back to the year 214... RIchard the Lionhearted tree... he was my 50 x great uncle... I am directly descended from his evil brother