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07-08-2009, 09:06 PM
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#51
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Join Date: Aug 2007
Location: Earth
Posts: 2,000
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British, Itallian, Scotish, French
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07-09-2009, 01:19 AM
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#52
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 1,274
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American Melting Pot. My dad's relatives are Czech, Swedish, Danish, Scots and Crow Indian (we traced the family tree). My mom's side is full-blood Cherokee and Irish on the maternal side, and French Canadian and German on the paternal side. (Then there is the extended family. My family is all ex-military, like me, so one sister-in-law is Italian, one is Canadian (Edmonton), one aunt is German (Schwartzwald), one is a New Zealander (Christchurch) and one aunt is an Aleut Eskimo).
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07-09-2009, 09:15 AM
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#53
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Location: Torrance, CA
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What is your heritage?
Italian and English/Irish.
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07-10-2009, 04:56 AM
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#54
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Join Date: Jun 2009
Posts: 6
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Croatian, Russian, Serbian.
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07-10-2009, 07:03 AM
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#55
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Australia
Posts: 7
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I know I am mainly English, Scottish, Irish & Welsh. I have also found out I have Norwegian and quite possibly other Scandinavian. I also have German (at the time my family were there it was Prussia), Latvian and other eastern European and some Australian.
I've been told we have vikings, druids, pirates and gypsies in our family history.
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07-10-2009, 02:18 PM
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#56
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Thou Viking capital Denmark.
Posts: 1,971
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I am danish, but with a bit of German. My great grandfather was part of the German army in World War 2, he was in Denmark as part of the force to keep us at bay. Weird, really. He wasn't a bad man I suppose, seeing as he fell in love with my Great Grandmother. He even made attempts to get permission to stay in Denmark and live here after the war, but he was denied.
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07-10-2009, 02:27 PM
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#57
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Penn's Woods
Posts: 7
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Heritage
Polish and German. Stubborn and more stubborn.
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07-23-2009, 09:23 AM
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#58
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: NYC Fo' shizzle mah nizzle
Posts: 1,026
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Mackerel Tabby Cat
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07-23-2009, 11:47 AM
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#59
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Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Get a CT scan and find out
Posts: 373
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German. But I don't find heritage to be very important at all.
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08-14-2009, 10:54 AM
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#60
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: ∞ ∞ //▲▲\\ ∞ ∞
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Dad is Japanese and Korean...Mom is French,German,English,Chickasaw and Cherokee Indian. I'm a mutt.
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08-14-2009, 11:01 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Earth.
Posts: 8,001
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vindicatedxjin
Dad is Japanese and Korean...Mom is French,German,English,Chickasaw and Cherokee Indian. I'm a mutt.
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I thought you said you're half Japanese.
Do you even know how that works?
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08-14-2009, 11:03 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: ∞ ∞ //▲▲\\ ∞ ∞
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It was like my 5th great gp that was Korean...but they always lived in Japan so I just count my father as Japanese.
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08-14-2009, 11:16 AM
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#63
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 797
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Father's Side (biological, don't remember him and evidence suggest he's dead.)
- French, first generation in the US
Mother's Side
- Her Father:
---- His Father: Dutch (family of outlaws. Woo-hoo)
---- His Mother: Polish
- Her Mother: German-Jew (second generation in the US)
And so, it can be said that my entire racial heritage was fucked over by Nazi Germany.
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08-14-2009, 11:23 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
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^^thats pretty interesting.
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08-14-2009, 12:29 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 797
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Quote:
Originally Posted by vindicatedxjin
^^thats pretty interesting.
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What makes it better is that my mother's great-great grandparents (of Jewish linage) left Germany in the late 1920s. My father's father left France in 1937-39 (never could get the exact date) for the United States and went back in June 1944 as a soldier in the United States Army. He married a French girl and they moved back to the US after the war.
So, it's interesting to see how much that war altered my family's future and resulted in me being born.
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08-14-2009, 12:49 PM
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#66
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: ∞ ∞ //▲▲\\ ∞ ∞
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Quote:
Originally Posted by DepthsofSpace
What makes it better is that my mother's great-great grandparents (of Jewish linage) left Germany in the late 1920s. My father's father left France in 1937-39 (never could get the exact date) for the United States and went back in June 1944 as a soldier in the United States Army. He married a French girl and they moved back to the US after the war.
So, it's interesting to see how much that war altered my family's future and resulted in me being born.
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Wow I always think it's so amazing how one little line of events can totally change the world^_^
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08-17-2009, 05:53 AM
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#67
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Join Date: Jul 2009
Location: Perth, Western Australia
Posts: 28
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I'm English, Scottish, German and I'm not certain but maybe a little italian.
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08-22-2009, 10:03 PM
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#68
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: a'Straiya
Posts: 1,292
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Unicornian.
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08-24-2009, 06:57 AM
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#69
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: North Florida
Posts: 646
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My great grandfather was an animal skin filled with air and my great grandmother was a diving bell. However, we recently traced our ancestry back to 3000 BCE, identifying our line as beginning with a hollow reed belonging to a sponge farmer in Crete.
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08-24-2009, 07:16 AM
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: ∞ ∞ //▲▲\\ ∞ ∞
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So my grandma totally got some info in from her cousin in washington about her ancestry. And we found out that my great great grandma had remarried a German guy after my great great grandpa died. And he used to beat her alot...well my great great aunt was trying to defend her one day while her stupid step dad german was beating her mom up...AGAIN..and he got pissed off...grabbed a hammer and destroyed my great great aunts head until she died. He was supposed to be hanged but...somehow he got out of it and we found out he ended up dying in a hospital in tennessee. Dirty germans :P
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08-25-2009, 04:02 PM
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#71
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 18
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I am mixed as hell so I’ll give you the races and ethnicities.
Black/African:
My ancestors came to the “new world” as slaves.
Some of my family came from Cape Verde and were mixed with Portuguese.
Polynesian:
Hawaiian
Native American:
Cherokee, Choctaw, and Taino.
Latino:
Puerto Rican
White:
Polish
I really could never pick one race to be .While being mixed can sometimes lead to you being ostracized I am rather grateful to be mixed and I think it has allowed me to see things from more than one cultural and social position. I was raised primarily as Black and Hawaiian. Everywhere I have ever lived has either been predominately Black or Asian/Polynesian and so I was exposed to those things the most. If I’m filling out a form and I can only pick one race I choose Black. I often have to adjust to living in within the different cultures of my various races and I think I’m better for it. It’s what has made me want to be a linguist and given me such a strong interest in anthropology.
I think that knowing your heritage and your culture is important and gives you something to lean on and draw strength from. Plus I really like that most people can never quite figure out what race I am. It gives me a bit of an edge.
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08-26-2009, 05:07 AM
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#72
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Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
Posts: 1,044
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Originally Posted by Logger
Polish and German. Stubborn and more stubborn.
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Haha. That definitely sounds like me.
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08-26-2009, 07:28 AM
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#73
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: Minnesota, USA
Posts: 4,448
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Prussian (Or German if you like), Polish, Swedish, English.
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08-26-2009, 07:45 AM
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#74
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Join Date: Aug 2006
Location: London
Posts: 3,231
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Mostly Irish. I think there's some Scottish a long way back, and I couldn't swear that my mother's side didn't have a bit of English a couple centuries past, but it's pretty much just Irish.
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08-26-2009, 08:06 AM
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#75
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Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: a small unknown town in West Virginia, US
Posts: 36
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my dad is completely Filipino, my mom's side of the family is welsh and scottish.
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