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[Steveo]

American Indian (Apache, Comanche), Mexican.

My Coat of Arms:

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MY BARF is TASTIER than Yours!!!

[Rocky Sullivan]

that's all I know for sure, the rest is unknown

also that is the right orange, green and white flag
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[Mikes!]

I'm ethnically Irish, straight offada boat before the famine and moved west immediately, so I've got Indian-massacring pioneer drunkards in me left part.

On the right is a messy bit of Ashkenazi Jewish lineage hailing from Austria and the areas now known as Latvia and the Czech Republic.

I'm supposedly an ancestor of Samuel Morse and Buffalo Bill Cody, but I kinda don't care.

[Laurie]

My paternal grandfather came to New York from Wales, my grandmother from England. Being Welsh is a big deal in my family.

My mother's family is primarily German but I know far less about them.

[DJ The Stick]

Italian, German and a bit of Russian.

-DJ
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[fruiterian]

My great grandmother on my maternal grandmother's side was essentially kicked out of her home in Ireland and came over to the States and worked as a maid for a while not too far from where I live now, actually. And only about half of her siblings came over to the 'States, so I have some distant cousins in Ireland still apparently. Eventually she ended up in New York City, I believe that's where my crazy nana grew up. My nana's father may or may not have been involved in Irish revolutionary activities and came over roughly at the same time: this would all be in the early 1900s. My maternal grandfather's parents weren't straight-off immigrants, it was the generation before them that were the immigrants from Ireland, don't know where in Ireland they're from though (I want to say my grandmother's are from Cork). They settled in the Jersey City type area.

I can't recall nearly as much about my father's side but I know that my grandmother grew up in coal-mining country in far West Pennsylvania in a tiny little town called Smock. I visited once, it was tiny. I don't have much desire to go back there. Not entirely sure how they all ended up in New Jersey, though--they did settle in predominantly Polish communities. I remember my mom saying that somewhere up on my father's heritage his great grandmother, I think it was, was adopted in Poland, and there wasn't a paper trail to say anything, so it would be terribly tricky to find out much beyond that.

Most of the Irish folks came through Ellis Island, I remember I visited there when I was younger and there was a wall with all the names of the immigrants there... and I specifically remember getting a crayon rubbing of my ancestor's names. Pretty much I'm fourth or fifth generation immigrant, which is pretty, um, integrated.

I really don't know where I know all this from, and I don't think my mom has actually done that much research into it either beyond a couple of very basic searches on the Ellis Island databases. It may have actually been from a school project or something.
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[Needle Dog]

Dutch and Norweigan
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[dodger]

I think being Norwegian would be more exciting than being Swedish. The Swedish have almost always been prosperous. Old money, if you will. The Norwegian economy has been consistently bullish since they discovered coastal oil. Norway is currently the most affluent country in the world, but fifty years ago it was a relatively poor country. It's always more exciting to be the nouveau-riche.

[cow_with_gun]

Irish and English.


I'm proud of my Irish blood.

[Xaqwais]

[Otogi-san]

[Belgianbronco]

Czech, Irish, German.
Go figure.
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[Rocky Sullivan]

[dodger]

[the snuggler]

mostly polish and (unfortunately) french canadian.
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i rhyme in tsunamis and this is just a drop of it