Country/Countries of heritage?

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Posted: 8/25/2016 4:09:21 AM EDT

What is your heritage?

Though a born and bred American, I am of Swiss and Swedish genes. I am more proud of the Swiss side.

Story: I had the opportunity to work on a Swiss dairy farm for some time -one night, I asked my boss to give me a notepad. He said sure and then opened a drawer -it was full of 30 round magazines. I asked him what those were for. He smiled, and then took me upstairs to the attic. He had both his and his father's issued SIG rifles -Sig 550s.

M

Posted: 8/25/2016 4:15:38 AM EDT

[#1]

Western European mutt, mostly Irish and Italian, so it goes without saying my family are responsible drinkers.

Posted: 8/25/2016 4:16:58 AM EDT

[#2]

DNA test says Irish.

My love of Guinness confirms it.

Posted: 8/25/2016 4:19:28 AM EDT

[#3]

American by birth, adopted (thank the Lord). Rumor has it I'm a mutt of questionable origins

Posted: 8/25/2016 4:19:39 AM EDT

[#4]

I come from a long line of broke people and preachers.

Posted: 8/25/2016 4:23:27 AM EDT

[#5]

Gotta love the Irish.

Also, while going on a run in Switzerland amidst the farms, I heard full auto fire down the country road. I asked my boss about it, and he said, "yah, it is just the neighbor. He likes to play with his Swiss army guns at the rifle range." They also had a handgun only range just outside of town.

M

Posted: 8/25/2016 4:33:38 AM EDT

[#6]

Mainly Scottish on one side, Sicilian on the other; so basically temperamental European hill folk on both sides.

Posted: 8/25/2016 5:55:57 AM EDT

[#7]

German, Irish and English(Isle of Man)

Posted: 8/25/2016 7:02:55 AM EDT

[#8]

German/Martian

Posted: 8/25/2016 7:33:18 AM EDT

[#9]

Scottish, Irish, English, German.

Posted: 8/25/2016 7:36:55 AM EDT

[#10]

My maternal grandmother is from France and lived through WWII in Verdun. She was born in 1933 and has some really sad memories of things. My mom was also born in France but they came to the US shortly after her birth. Not sure about my fathers side.

Posted: 8/25/2016 8:03:35 AM EDT

[#11]

Danish namesake.

Mostly Irish and English

Posted: 8/25/2016 8:08:37 AM EDT

[#12]

75% Irish, 25% German Jewish

Posted: 8/25/2016 8:27:13 AM EDT

[#13]

Principality of Asturias in Spain by way of Cuba. My great-grandfather was in the Spanish Army and stationed in Cuba during the Spanish-American War.

Posted: 8/25/2016 11:10:08 AM EDT

[#14]

Arabic, Scottish
Dads family from Lebanon in early 1900s
Moms family from Scotland in early 1800s

Posted: 8/25/2016 11:16:31 AM EDT

[#15]

Mostly German, with lots of "other" thrown in along the way.

Dad's side were poor farmers, who came over as indentured servents in 1738. Worked off their debt in Pennsylvania, then moved to North Carolina. Bounced around from area to area after that until we ended up in Texas in the late 1800s.

Mom's side were also poor farmers from Germany, who came over to Texas after the first World War.

Posted: 8/25/2016 11:17:13 AM EDT

[#16]

Finnish, Dutch, German, and Polish.

Posted: 8/25/2016 11:18:38 AM EDT

[#17]

Dad went to Vietnam and fell in love with SE Asia.

After a couple more floats he guarded embassies in Singapore and Jakarta. Mom happened to be wandering by with friends on college break from Kuala Lumpur. Dad made it happen, brought home a bride and here I am.

While my Mom's side is ethnic Chinese, having family in a predominantly Muslim country always makes background checks fun.

Posted: 8/25/2016 11:19:47 AM EDT

[#18]

Scots, English and German. I'm a WASP if there ever was one.

Posted: 8/25/2016 11:20:30 AM EDT

[#19]

Austrian, Costa Rican, and Greek.

Posted: 8/25/2016 11:21:26 AM EDT

[#20]

Mutt of the British Isles.

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Posted: 8/25/2016 11:22:22 AM EDT

[#21]

German, Austrian, Irish.

Posted: 8/25/2016 11:22:27 AM EDT

[#22]

Fillipino and Spanish on my dad's side and a European mutt on mom's

Posted: 8/25/2016 11:23:50 AM EDT

[#23]

Norwegian (duh, it's MN). Finnish and English rounds out the list.

Posted: 8/25/2016 11:24:22 AM EDT

[#24]

Primarily English and German. A barely-there amount of Irish and Native American.

I'm quite proud of my ancestors. Lots of people who wouldn't be controlled.

Posted: 8/25/2016 11:24:39 AM EDT

[#25]

Dad's side is primarily Germans who wound up in Illinois sometime in the early to mid 1800's, with a small group moving to MI around the beginning of the 20th Century.
Mom's side is all Irish who emigrated to Newfoundland a long time ago, with Mom coming to the U.S. in 1968 when my folks married.

Posted: 8/25/2016 11:49:50 AM EDT

[#26]

Dutch, genetically speaking of the Viking variety with some Ashkenazi mixed in.

My paternal grandfather was a second generation Dutch American whose parents spoke little English and befriended my maternal grandfather in the Netherlands while working as a translator during WWII.

My maternal grandmother was the youngest of eight children and only two of them survived the war, when the war ended they tried to get to the states before my mother was born but only made it to Canada, then settled in the US. My parents grew up in the same church.

Posted: 8/25/2016 11:53:12 AM EDT

[#27]

Dad's side of the family is Polish drunks.
Mom's side of the family is Scottish drunks.

Posted: 8/25/2016 11:57:47 AM EDT

[#28]

German, Dutch, English, and colonial back to the 1600s in the US

Posted: 8/25/2016 12:17:47 PM EDT

[#29]

1/2 Mexican
1/4 Polish
1/8 Irish
1/8 Italian

All my folks came over in the early 1900's. The Mex side is from South Texas and the rest came in by way of Ellis Island.

Posted: 8/25/2016 12:24:57 PM EDT

[#30]

Norwegian. Just Norwegian.
Now I really want some krumkake.

Posted: 8/25/2016 12:42:34 PM EDT

[#31]

Going way back? Luxembourg (Septfontaines), Belgium (Liege) and France (Bretagne).

Posted: 8/25/2016 12:44:01 PM EDT

[#32]

Japanese and German/Dutch.

My family got its ass kicked in WW II.

Posted: 8/25/2016 12:57:40 PM EDT

[#33]

Cherokee Nation, before that Iroquois, Asian before that, and Africa to begin with I have others mixed in since the illegal immigration started in 1492.

Posted: 8/25/2016 12:59:32 PM EDT

[#34]

I am a TEXAN

I do come from a long and glorious line of Russian peasants.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:00:57 PM EDT

[#35]

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This. Without the whole Spanish Army part. I've met relatives who were Cuban Army. Angola sounded unpleasant.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:06:30 PM EDT

[#36]

"Scotch/Irish" in a nutshell.

Some of my folks associated with Clan MacLeod. One of the neatest tidbits is that one of my relatives was Donald Mor McCrimmon who some say developed the "Pibroch" form for the bagpipe.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:12:23 PM EDT

[#37]

I handed in my Norwegian passport when I became an American. We can trace our family history back to the 800's

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:13:33 PM EDT

[#38]

inb4 william wallace

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:24:07 PM EDT

[#39]

My paternal grandfather came here from Germany as a child in the early 1900s, and later married another German.

My moms side is more of a mutt, and uncertain. She thinks they're Scottish, Irish, and a tiny bit American Indian.

I usually just say that my dads side is from Germany, and my moms side is from Southern Illinois.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:29:31 PM EDT

[#40]

Like most in the Appalachias I am Scotch, Irish, German. How far back to those is an unknown for most but a long ways. But with family names like Hogan, McClure, and Honaker there isn't much mystery. The Scotland link was actually traced back to being there mid 1700's, the rest are just family names and old stories.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:32:58 PM EDT

[#41]

English, Welsh, Danish.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:36:23 PM EDT

[#42]

Texan.

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:42:52 PM EDT

[#43]

American. Grandparents from Japan

Posted: 8/25/2016 1:43:07 PM EDT

[#44]

White guy of medium stature and girth....so who the hell knows.

Posted: 8/25/2016 2:36:45 PM EDT

[#45]

Native American

Ed

Posted: 8/25/2016 3:08:01 PM EDT

[#46]

50% Polish, 25% Flemish, 25% Swedish. Euromutt

Posted: 8/25/2016 3:10:40 PM EDT

[#47]

Per one of those DNA test, English-Irish-Scottish. We just learned of the Scottish this year.

Posted: 8/25/2016 3:11:13 PM EDT

[#48]

My mother was Born in MEXICO

My DNA results were unique to say the least

My dads family all claimed English and Irish (all blue eyed and red haired) turned out DNA says they are all Scandinavian..