ancestry roll call
 

I like this sort of stuff...

What's your racial/ethnic makeup? Are you proud of it? What brought your ancestors to America?

Me:
1/4 German
1/4 Swiss (German speaking)
1/4 English
1/4 Danish

English - Mixed bag. The ideals this country was founded upon are essentially English. But English rulers were oppressors and a-holes.

German/Swiss - ehh <shrugs shoulders>

Danish - Vikings are cool.

I wish I had some Scottish blood. I admire their independent fighting spirit. Plus bagpipes rule. I wouldn't mind a little Cherokee as well to spice things up.

The Church brought 7/8 of me to America. The remainder dates back to Puritan times.

1/2 English
1/4 Hawaiian
1/8 Japanese
1/8 Chinese

My mother's side was baptized in Yorkshire, England and made the trek with the saints a few generations ago. They settled in Bountiful and then eventually migrated to eastern Idaho.

My father's side was baptized in Hawaii around the turn of the century. Great-great grandparents were full Japanese and Chinese. Ah-puck and Kawashima. They came to Hawaii seeking work in the cane fields. I also, have some Portuguese, my grandmother was a Coelho, but they're the Pollocks of Polynesia so we just as soon not acknowledge it.

1/2 English
1/4 Swede
1/4 Mutt (German, Irish, Scottish, Cherokee, who knows what else. This line has been here since before the Revolution)

Does the mutt side come from appalachia or the south? Seems like everyone down there is scotch irish with a little cherokee mixed in.

Kind of all over. I think most of that line was in Ohio. Though there is some in Kentucky as well. So of the two choices I guess appalachia is more likely. My great grandmother's family moved to Oklahoma in the late 1800's and then went West in the early 1900's (pre dust bowl .. my grandmother was an infant at the time and was born in 1911). But they were dirt poor to the point that they went from Oklahoma to Colorado via covered Wagon. Homesteaded near Colorado Springs and ultimately moved on to CA.

Another interesting note on that line. One of my direct ancestors is Obadiah Allen, first cousin to Ethan Allen of Revolutionary War fame. Obadiah fought as well and my grandma was big into the DAR and genealogy. Which was nice when I joined the church. :)

1/4 Portuguese (my grandparents on my moms side immigrated here from Portugal, believe it or not their last names are Santos)
1/4 Potawatomi indian (my grandfather on my dads side was an indian chief, he married my grandma who is white and was a school teacher on the reservation)
1/4 Polish- my grandma is a pollock through and through
1/4- mutt (french canadian, spanish, dutch)

what part of the country are the Potawatomi indians from?

My grandparents lived on a reservation in Kansas, but they are originally from Michigan and Wisconsin.

1/2 English
1/2 Scandanavian (1/4 Danish & 1/4 Swedish) ...or thereabouts.

Potawatomi is the county name for Council Bluffs, Iowa winter's quarters.

Mostly English with some Danish and other European.

Here it is in descending order

English
Icelandic
German
Norwegian
Danish
Samoan

In order:

Ukranian
French (via the Huguenots and Canada)
English
Scandanavian
Sioux Indian

I'm also 1/2 Japanese, but that's a different story that's not reflected in my DNA.

French
German
English
Welsch

My father's father was born and raised in San Francisco by a French mother and a German father, both immigrants. Maybe it's because of all my grandparents, I liked him the best, or maybe it's just that I have romanticized the idea being an immigrant in San Francisco in the early 1900s, but I am proudest of my French and German heritage.

This reminds me of one of the funniest King of the Hill episodes:

HANK: So, are you Chinese or Japanese?
KHAN: I live in California last twenty years, but first come from Laos.
HANK: Huh?
KHAN: Laos. We Laotian.
BILL: The ocean? What ocean?
KHAN: We are Laotian. From Laos, stupid! It's a landlocked country in Southeast Asia. It's between Vietnam and Thailand, okay? Population 4.7 million.
HANK: [after a long pause and a blank stare] So, are you Chinese or Japanese?

So, surfah......are you chinese or japanese? :-)

Actually I think I would have guessed that you were a caucasian/islander/asian combo. Some slight asian facial features but to damn big to not have some poly in there.

Interestingly, I am also a Huguenot decendent. Remi's.

3/4 English/Welsh
1/4 German

Ephraimite....

That episode was hilarious. As my fiance pointed out during a game of table tennis where I proclaimed that I was going to whoop her ass because I am Chinese, I am whatever I need to be when it's convenient. And she's right.

I do get that question though quite a bit. I tell them my last name is Chong. And then they ask, so is that Chinese or Japanese? The Korean Club at BYU used to call me every semester as well. And everyone on my mission thought I was latin. I'd explain that I was from Hawaii and then they'd say, but your parents are from Mexico?

I wish I had more height and size though. My father's oldest brother makes my dad look like a runt. And you've seen my old man.

I don't remember your dad as being a huge guy. I remember him being a good sized guy who is hard as a rock and tough as nails. Didn't he play hoops for like an hour with a pretty badly broken finger?

I'm a honky.

98% Chinese
2% Taiwanese aboriginal

Dad came to the states for graduate school.

Yes. He's not big, 6', 225 or so but he's in ridiculous shape at his age. It's sad really. He's nearly twice my age and can still beat me at most everything I do. And he doesn't let me forget it either. I remember working out with him right after I got home from the mission at Quantico and he was repping 300lbs on the bench press without a spotter. I am too embarrassed to post what I was lifting...mission arms, mission arms.

1/2 Japanese. My mom came to the states after she was baptized.

1/2 English/French/Irish, some sort of mix

When I was younger, I used to get asked all the time what I was mixed with. (Usually by older men, so it was a little creepy when they'd smile and say, "good mix" when I told them.) People usually guess wrong, that I'm part Chinese, Vietnamese, Philipino. Except for other Asians-- they all can guess with the first try that I'm part Japanese.

Also, I frequently get honked and yelled at by truckloads of waving Mexican immigrants when I drive on the freeway. So from a distance, maybe I look Latina :)

my wife is 100% mayan indian.

1/2 Welsh
1/2 Scandanavian

(roughly)

1/2 English/Welsh
1/2 Danish

That's funny, my wife is 1/4 Korean. Mexicans are always hitting on her, thinking she is Latina. When we lived in Arizona for a while, I felt the need to be a little protective of her.

100% western european mutt. There may be some mediterranean somethign in there, however, as I do brown up pretty nicely in the summer sun.

I too, have been honked at by truckloads of immigrants, but I don't think it was fo rmy bronze skin. They were also waving fingers.

I am:

1/8 German
1/8 Brazilian
3/4 Welsh/English/whatever else

My maternal grandmother was born in Brazil to a Brazillian father (don't know where his ancestors were from; perhaps Germany) and German mother.
Maternal grandfather's main ancestry was Scottish I think
Paternal Grandfather's line comes from Wales, settled in Malad with the other Welsh peoples
Maternal Grandmother's line from England-ish.

Because my last name is Welsh, I share something in common with the following people:
http://www.solarnavigator.net/films_...s_portrait.jpg
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi...Jones_2005.jpg

A comedian had a good line the other night on Last Comic Standing.

He is clearly Asian-appearing.

"It's hard being Chinese . . . because I'm Japanese."

Are you related to this Welsch?
http://www.bvkholice.cz/jgolden.jpg

I hope not.

Edit: although I probably play basketball like him:

"During his stint in Cleveland, Welsch was best known for frequently dribbling the ball off his foot and wildly missing open jump shots."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiri_Welsch

~1/3rd German
~1/3rd English
1/8th Italian
1/8th Welsh
1/16th Swiss
1/16th Irish

7/8ths Danish
1/8th English

How can you be a 3rd of something? Is incest a skeleton in your family closet?

Those of us who know almost never get it wrong. The looks are completely distinct.

5 of your 16 great-great grandparents=~1/3

Exactly.

Mostly English with some Danish. I married a Honduran to give my kids a little color in their skin.