Where do your Roots lie?
 

Im just wondering what everybody's roots are here. :lol:

For instance I am:

Dutch - My father is Dutch and I was born in Holland
English - My mother is english, I was raised more or less english and I have an english passport
Scottish - My grandma's parents originally came from Scotland
Irish - Just found out theres some Irish in the family too.

Im

Sweedish - My closest relatives are the (Peterson)s. My grandma is 100% Sweedish
Norwegian - From my fathers side
German - My great grandmother was German (Hess) and married and Englishman (Lockwood)
English - See above
Irish - I have no info on this heritage but Im told there is a bit in me
Polish - Where my name (Gornitzka) comes from

Me and my parents were born and raised right here in the San Francisco Bay Area

looks like my roots are pretty boring

100% made in germany :)

Well, I was born here in Southern California (Manhattan Beach). My dad was born in Compton in the 1940s and my mom was born in Northern Cali. Not sure about grandparents, I should find out. My family's roots here in America can be traced all the way back to Jamestown, so suffice to say, we have been here a long ass time (Ben Franklin is one of my ancestors). Before that, my family comes mostly from Wales.

My blood breakdown is as follows (at least thats what im told LOL in order from most to least):

Welsh - Most of my family's roots can be traced back to Wales
American Indian (Cherokee) - Grandfather is 100%
Irish - Theres a wee bit of Irishman in me
Scottish - A few Scots along the way
German - There have been some Germans as well

Blond hair and blue eyes?

Boring here as well:

100% Mainland Chinese - City of Guangzhou (Canton), Guangdong Province, Southern China.

Black Hair and Slanted Eyes. Oh yes, good at math too. ;)

Spanish - My grandmother (father side) is spanish.
Portuguese - My grandfather (father side) is portuguese.
Germany - My great grandfather (mother side) was german.
Brazillian - My grandmother's family (mother side) were brazillian.

And i was born in Brazil.

Father: Mixed Indonesian/Dutch roots, born and raised in Indonesia when it was still a Dutch colony (the Dutch East Indies) and came to the NL when he was around 19 years old.

Mother: Born and raised in Surinam, but with African, Native American, Dutch and Spanish roots. She came to the NL when she turned 19.

Myself: Born and raised in the oldest city of NL, Maastricht. 8)

my ancestors were norwegian vikings :P

Pure Polish :)

Born and raised in Sweden but 50% hungarian on my fathers side.

Czech (from my father's side)/Russian (from my mum's mother's side), but born in Czech willing to go back to UK ANYTIME :mrgreen:

Scottish -mom's dad's side -traced back to jamestown, relative of U.S. Grant, and inadvertant inventor of the "book of morman" (not joe smith, or brigham young)
English - mom's mom's side, traced to 13th century aristocracy... and only came to the americas because of a tragic accident.
Irish - dad's dad's side, which is both Irish, and Irish from Germany... yeah, migrating patterns in the 11th century :P
German - Great grandma was 100% german, great grandpa was 50% and 50% irish

uhm...
Dutch - my father's family is dutch, with some parts of french ancestors hundreds of years back
Jewish - my mom's family is partially (german) jewish, and partly just plain dutch, with some spanish traces a LONG way back

People sometimes/often think i'm turkish or morrocan :lol: but that's my jewish roots showing... black (curly) hair, brown eyes, ever so slightly olive skin, big nose :P

that i know of, 50% German, 50% Irish. Don't know my genetic family so i can't tell you who was who :bah:

French from my great-grandfather (my mom's grandfather),
Italian from my great-grandmother (my mom's grandmother),
Spaniard from my grandmother (mom's mother)

and it seems that my from my dad's side we're a bunch of mexicans with some spaniard blood around there

What is known..
One side of the family came over from Germany in 18xx. The other side came over from England in 15xx.
That being said I've got other things which are unidentified as of yet.

My grandparents were all born in China. My paternal grandfather's home town is Kai Ping (Guangdong Province), and I'm technically one of them because my name is on the official family tree. All of them moved to Hong Kong later on (1930s, I guess), some to work, some to flee the Japs. As a result, my parents were born in Hong Kong. They got married after some single living, moved to Australia, and I was born here and grew up here.

Italy, my parents moved to the states from Sicily before I was born.

Dad is a quarter Hungarian rest Ukrainian. Mum from central Ukraine.

Besides my dad being a 25% Hungarian, my mum has some distant polish blood.


No one is pure if they are from Europe :wink:

But Im 100% Ukrainian

100% Indian but there is a bit of Italian in me ;)

China - where i was born
Bangladesh - where my parents are from
India - some of my grand parents
mauritius & Iraq - grand grand parents
Pakistan - where i live

i just realised how fucked up ^^ that is :lol:

almost every year there's a thread of this kind. I remember writing my lineage 2 times before this one

Reminds of studying maths.

Dad's side is Scottish and German; Mom's side is irish, dutch, english. although the family name traces back to Scotland on southwest or northeast (can't remember). but grow up US Navy, and the family history in general has always been near the water it seems :bah: :)

2/4 Norwegian (that means both grandfathers were full norwegian)
1/4 swiss german (as in the kind of swiss that speak german, not french)
1/4 all mixed up English/Dutch origin. This one is the richest in American history though as I have ancestors that have been in the States since the 1600's.

we are all fucking migrants :lol:

LOL pretty interesting to see guys :mrgreen:

Mom was born in Israel, Dad and both grandparents were born in Morocco, and as far as i know is that my family moved to Morocco from Spain in the deportation (1492).
tho in some point my moms parents and their family lived in France.. (some still do)
I was born and raise here..

Well.. My parents and grandparents were born and grew up in the Philippines.

My great grandfather came from China somewhere.

and I'm sure I've got some Spanish in me since the Spaniards were all up in the PI in early on..

It's really hard to track down our family history because of the Philippine's history. Would be nice to take the time and actually find my true roots though.


edit: oh yea, I was born Florida then moved up to NY when I was 5

Nice mixes, mates.

100% Ukrainian. but I don't speak Ukrainian only Russian in our Family.
born in Lithuania and lived there whole my life.
My mother 100% Ukrainiain born in Ukraine.
Father was born in Kyrgyzstan but his parents was Ukrainians too.
but I don't know why but personaly I think i'm Russian :D
grew up with Russian language, studyed in Russian school for 12years. And now I'm Studying in Russian university in Russia,Kaliningrad.

:roflmao: nice try, i'm not Heino :P

but i have brown/almost black hair and grey blue eyes... so no i don't fit the arche-type german dude. though i'm a very tall guy.

And what do your parents say? Because there are many russian speaking ukrainian families who still very much consider themselves ukrainian.

Just odd that a guy born to ukrainian parents in lithuania calls himself russian. :|

Nothing wrong with that....just odd.

I guess that would be like me considering myself Canadian because I've lived near the border with Kanukistan, and the fact I can speak with a canadien accent :P (if i so choose)

100% from Holland! :D And damn proud of it :D

I'm Indian so I'd have to go back to the motherland to find my roots............Britain.

haha yup

amen russell peters

when did adam and eve change their names? :? :lol:

@Dani? You consider yourself beeing blond? :P
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I am Russian down to the roots, father is by nationality Chuvash(a little state in russia) and mother from Moscow area.

I was thinking just today that we dont have here on the board not even a single person 100% from Russia who is living there or even from Ukrain... all are living elsewere and I cant say that there is no fast internet there or that russians dont speak russian or they are not interested in cars... so huge country and not a 1 peson here :shock: none of Japanese members too, I think 1 italian - moreless active guy... some countries just have too lazy people or what? :mrgreen:

I am

Cuban: My mother's side of the family is mostly Cuban, with some Spanish thrown in here or there.
Spanish: My grandfather's (father) side of the family is Spanish.
English: My Grandmother's (father) is full on Spaniard.

Born and raised in Miami, Florida! 8)

Oh, and my full name is Ricardo Jesus Flores, or just Rick.

I got grandmother + few more relatives in Dnipropetrovsk too. :D

... :shock: NO! let it be your way... I belive you!!! :mrgreen: