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goron49
25-10-2005, 09:11 PM
What is your ethnic background? I'm English with a very tiny percentage of French on my mums side of the family.

Haver
25-10-2005, 09:20 PM
Cardassian, regrettably.

JonSt
25-10-2005, 09:21 PM
My mum is scottish and my dad is english, so a mixture of both.

Sexual Chocolate
25-10-2005, 09:22 PM
english through and through, it doesn't make me proud.

uəʌəsʎɐɾ
25-10-2005, 09:24 PM
'Can't we all just.. get along?'

half welsh, half english!

Jordan
25-10-2005, 09:26 PM
Half Arabic (hense my retarded last name) half English. Although i look totally English.. which is strange.

Charlie
25-10-2005, 09:26 PM
100% Scottish. My dad's tracked my family further back than Mary Queen of Scots (or my Great x13 Grandmother :heh: ), I think he's at 900AD at the moment...

http://www.blae.net/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I12259&tree=Douglas1

"Play around" with me there. Search up some random names from history in the "relationshop" section.

Dieter
25-10-2005, 09:33 PM
I can trace my roots back about four generations I think, all Belgian :)

BlackMesa
25-10-2005, 09:33 PM
Bit 'o' Welsh and South African over here

Edit: Ancestor who pwned a lot of Tibetans: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Younghusband's_Expedition

uəʌəsʎɐɾ
25-10-2005, 09:59 PM
you know what sucks about ancestors? how there are so damn many of them, and one day each and every one of us will be just as insignificant.

Jack
25-10-2005, 10:07 PM
My ancestors were alll honkies.

Monopolyman
25-10-2005, 10:25 PM
Half Irish, half English, though I am a tad scandinavian on the English side. I usually put myself down as Irish, because there is to many limeys 'round here.

elniro
25-10-2005, 10:29 PM
100% asian (indjian)

Konfucius
25-10-2005, 10:30 PM
3/4 of my grandparents are from South-Tyrol that was once a part of Austria but fell to Italy after WW1. The other granny is 1/2 Austrian and 1/2 Swiss.
Strangely I look very more italian than austrian, even more than my grandparents used to when they were young.

Bren
25-10-2005, 10:32 PM
1/2 aussie
1/2 english

gutted,,,

Blackfox
25-10-2005, 11:25 PM
My ancestors were alll honkies.

:D

All English here.

goron49
25-10-2005, 11:32 PM
1/2 aussie
1/2 english

gutted,,,

You can't have an ethnical background as Australian unless you are a native australian, because all white Australians are Europeans.

kav82
26-10-2005, 12:15 AM
Half English and half Iranian, little bit of Scottish and Irish thrown in there on the English side of the family too.

#1cubeplayer
26-10-2005, 01:32 AM
My mother was born in Mexico as were my father's parents. He and I were born in the bloody U.S.

RoadKill
26-10-2005, 01:46 AM
English with like probably a splash of Indian and Welsh somewhere along the line, and no doubt others somewhere but to be honest I have no idea.

Dante
26-10-2005, 01:52 AM
Just a plain english lad.

Smalldude76
26-10-2005, 01:56 AM
Both my grandmothers were born in England, my Grandad on my mother's side was born in hungary, and my other grandpa is French Canadian. One of my relatives (branched way way back) traced the Meloche family back to 1575 in France to a merchant which I found quite interesting.

Noodleman
26-10-2005, 01:58 AM
Parents and Grandparents all English. Great grandparents however a mixture of English, Welsh, Irish, Isle of Man and Israeli.

*Dalco*
26-10-2005, 12:17 PM
British Indian, parents from india me born in britain

|Laguna|
26-10-2005, 12:28 PM
Half Irish, Half English...

Apparently I look German... :/

Razz
26-10-2005, 12:43 PM
half italian half english. but i dont look english

Mokong X-C
26-10-2005, 01:12 PM
well my fater is irish but his great grandaddy was welsh, my mother is from the Philippines and her great granddaddy was spainsh.

But me, i just say i'm Irish, a green white and gold paddy throug and through :awesome:

MunKy
26-10-2005, 01:46 PM
Italian Grandfather and Spanish Grandmother on my Mums(who was born in France) side, Irish Grandmother and English Grandfather on my Dads side. And I was born in France. Im a melting pot.

Eenuh
26-10-2005, 02:00 PM
I think my grandfather's dad (on my dad's side) was Dutch... So yeah, I'm a very tiny bit of Dutch with all the rest probably just being Belgian.

dukkadukka
26-10-2005, 02:33 PM
i was born and bred in wales but my family are from britain, zimbabwe and russia in recent generations.

weeyellowbloke
26-10-2005, 03:31 PM
One set of Grandparents were from Ireland, then buggered off to Glasgow to set up home, which as chance would have it is where my Dad is from. The other set of Grandparents were English, but went and set up home in Shetland, which is were my Mum is from (but brought up in Manchester). There you have my recent family history in a nutshell.

Ashley
26-10-2005, 04:41 PM
I think im half english, half scottish but scottish schmottish at the end of the day.

Raining_again
26-10-2005, 04:44 PM
my mum is a brummy, my dad is from n.i, i was born in scotland, and i live in n.ireland, and have an irish accent. what does that make me, a freak perhaps :heh:

Zakatu
26-10-2005, 05:30 PM
english on both sides as far back as i know off. (at least 4 generations) but considering my name i think a few of my ancestors were welsh.

Theres also probably a little bit of irish in there too, 4 generations back, there are alot of ancestors!

its amazing really, 2*2*2*2 = 16 go back a little further and theres probably enough ancestors to mean that i come from loads of places.

Stefkov
26-10-2005, 05:41 PM
my dads, mum and dad were born in Ukraine, and my mums, dad was born there also, but my mums mum, was born in italy. i was born in englans so im English, Italian and Ukrainian. wierd cos im fully ukrainan, yet i know little words.

DS MaNiAc
26-10-2005, 05:42 PM
Half Greek half English. Greek dad english ma. i was born in crete but have lived in england all my life.

GoonFace
26-10-2005, 07:39 PM
My parents are born in India and I was born in England.

Platty
27-10-2005, 02:30 PM
Im English myself and look english with my pale white skin which gets burnt when there is a slight bit of sun.

as far as i can trace back all my family are English. Probably if i could keep going back further i would end up finding some other blood in there somewhere i guess.

Dawn
27-10-2005, 02:42 PM
I dont know - I was found under a bush.

Roostophe
27-10-2005, 02:48 PM
I was born in England (Aston, tbe), my parents are English but there is Scottish blood in my mom's side as my Grandma is from Greenock. On my mom's dad's side, there is French blood.
On my dad's side, there is Irish blood but from where I don't know, but I think my dad has Irish blood, about 1/10. And there has to be Welsh blood because my surname 'Richards', is Welsh.
Plus I have ancestors who settled in England all the way from the Netherlands. So (In order, from most to least)

English
Scottish
Welsh
Irish
French
Dutch (or Netherlandic)

Jaysus, I could be distantly related to someone here.

kopo
27-10-2005, 04:36 PM
All Belgian on one side (well not sure, i guess at least 4 generations are) and a little touch of spanish mixed with Belgian germs on the other side make up my (quite delicious) blood. Although the amount of spanishness in me is neglectable, i do, according to some people, have a southern look. Italian they said.

mario114
27-10-2005, 04:53 PM
You can't have an ethnical background as Australian unless you are a native australian, because all white Australians are Europeans.

The would be like saying you can't claim to be americain as only the native americains can, as the rest are all imigrants, mostly irish due to the potato phanom.

Bluejay
27-10-2005, 06:56 PM
100% english here, apart from my great grandad was Irish. So maybe not 100%, 82.5% I think. I'd like to be a bit more cultural. Ah well.

Arragaun
27-10-2005, 07:09 PM
I'm lucky in that I get to go to Valhalla. I'm not sure if I can get a on name alone though, 'cause my Norwegian side comes from Bolton and has done for about seven centuries. Grimshaw means Devil's Dell, which I think is cool.
If I get rejected from Valhalla I get to use the back up plan of retiring to the Great Big Highland in the sky, where the ale flows freely.

The would be like saying you can't claim to be americain as only the native americains can, as the rest are all imigrants, mostly irish due to the potato phanom.
I'd say that to be ethnically "Australian" would be to be Maori (sp?).

Edit: I meant Aboriginee, maybe it is Maori, or is that New Zealand?

zaraki
27-10-2005, 07:16 PM
Kurdish



http://www.warnews.it/immagini/cartine/kurdistan.gif


....in case you didnt now.

Big Red
27-10-2005, 07:27 PM
absolut geniuse zaraki

my mothers side is from the sayshells if thats how u spell it also with some arabic and a few other things and the bastard farther is from jamaca but i was born pure unadulterated pirate because i cant ever find my place so i wander the seas and shaws in a great hope that one day i may be happey

Sarka
27-10-2005, 08:00 PM
As far back as I know I'm Scottish... every single ancestor from Shetland.

Arragaun
27-10-2005, 08:05 PM
Does anybody belong to the Anderson clan, cause I can claim a half-membership. Anybody else? If not, just give your clan anyway, we can have some wars over territory...