Where do your Roots lie?

[TopGearNL]

Im just wondering what everybody's roots are here.

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.

[MidEngine4Life]

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

[silentm]

looks like my roots are pretty boring

100% made in germany

[novass]

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

[RC45]

Originally Posted by silentm looks like my roots are pretty boring 100% made in germany

Blond hair and blue eyes?

[ae86_16v]

Originally Posted by RC45 Originally Posted by silentm looks like my roots are pretty boring 100% made in germany 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.

[Z3uS]

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.

[Svensson]

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)

[Skaala]

my ancestors were norwegian vikings

[Fleischmann]

Pure Polish

[Ghostbat]

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

[MIHALS]

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

[nthfinity]

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
German - Great grandma was 100% german, great grandpa was 50% and 50% irish

[gucom]

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 but that's my jewish roots showing... black (curly) hair, brown eyes, ever so slightly olive skin, big nose

[ZfrkS62]

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