What is your genetic background?

Question

My grandma is half welsh, half irish, my dad is from devon, and all the rest of my family is from kent, where i live now.
I think about 6 generations ago someone on my dads side was from Holland, but that was ages ago
Where does your family come from. Probably get some more interesting answers than mine from america, mine must be pretty dull compared to the 'melting pot' haha

Answer 1

My paternal side is entirely Dutch, from Rotterdam, my maternal side is 3/4 Dutch and 1/4 Scottish. Guess that's why I'm so easy going most of the time but have a bit of a temper sometimes :) My family has lived in the US since 1849 and have not deviated from Dutch heritage, except for my sister and I with our significant others.

We have our family professionally traced back to 1649 but could not go any further since the last names changed with professions

I also did the National Geographic Genographic project which compares mitochondrial DNA with those of women throughout the world and it showed that my very distant ancestors (10,000+ years ago) were middle eastern and then before that east African. It's a fascinating research project and I highly recommend everyone checking it out!

Answer 2

I'm a mix of English, Welsh, Irish, and Scottish. Possibly a tiny amount of German, but that's not very likely. The exact amounts are not sure as my family came to America 22 generations ago (Both sides of the family) . All of the lines I've researched have come from England or Ireland or somewhere nearby so that's as much as we know. There's a possibility I'm partially Cherokee, we're still trying to figure out if we're blood related or related by marriage to a Cherokee line in our family.

And trust me, yours is much more exciting. I can only say "Yeah, I'm some mix of that."

Answer 3

This is boring. My father was Irish, a County Cork lad. My mother's grandparents were both 1/2 Irish and 1/2 Cherokee Indian, her father was Irish, her mother 1/2 Cherokee. I'm 7/8ths Irish and 1/8th Cherokee Indian. Family originally came from Oldcastle, Co. Meath, Ireland. Cherokee relatives from Starrvilla, Indian Territory (now Oklahoma) Most distant Cherokee ancestor was Nancy Ward 1738-1822 in Polk Co. Tennessee.

Answer 4

Bohemian, Irish, Scots, French, English, Norwegian (Erik the Red) and Dutch. My earliest ancestors to America arrived from Holland in the early 1600's in Nieu Amsterdam. We have land grants in New York and New Jersey from the 1600's. Someone above mentioned that Bohemia no longer exists. It is now the Czech Republic. My cousin and I do the family genealogy and now have more than 8,200 surnames on our list.

Answer 5

Perhaps you have not searched back very far.
Yes, I am an American: my ancestors included Innuits, Eskimos and several tribes; English, Welsh, Irish, Scottish, Isle of Man, Iceland, Norway...all over Europe, the Middle East, Africa, North and South America, Australia and several countries in Asia, plus Atlantic, Pacific, Mediterranean and Carribean seas.
(By BOTH paper trails and DNA.)

Answer 6

Lets see. My dad's side of the family has been in America since before the revolution. My grandmother can trace her family back that far (she is a Daughter of the Revolution) and says they are Dutch. On my mom's side, her father's family came from Germany. Her mother's mother came from Poland in the early 1900's when she was 14. Her husband came from Bohemia, a country that no longer exists. So I'm Dutch, German, Polish, & Bohemian.

Answer 7

My Dad's ancestors came to the US abt. 1838 from Prussia, Germany. They settled first in Ohio, then started going West. My. gr.gr. grandfather m. a woman of Irish descent, as did my gr. grandfather.
My Mom's side has been traced to France in the 1600's. They immigrated to Quebec, Canada in the 1700's and to Maine in the early 1900's to work in the mills around Augusta.
I've had little contact with my Dad's side, but I got to know my Mom's quite well.

Answer 8

English and Scotch-Irish from my Dad's side and Scotch-Irish and Cherokee indian from my Mom's side, some of whose ancestors have been here since before the War of 1812. They received land grants for soldiering in the war and that is how they wound up in what is now the state of Texas. At that time it was the Republic of Texas. With lots of wild indians still roaming around and marauding and killing. (Comanche we think) My Dad was born in Indian Territory in what is now Oklahoma. It wasn't a state at the time yet.

Answer 9

Well I'm an American and lets see here
Fathers Family: German,Scottish,French,English
Mothers Family: English,Scottish,German, Cherokee
Not all that many different groups considering Dads family has been here since 1732 and Moms family has been here since 1625.

BTW my English blood is From Buckinghamshire and from Yorkshire.

Answer 10

that would be your ethnic background...but greetings from buffalo, new york lol.

i'm half italian, my dad is 100%, his family being from foggia and rotello
i'm 25% french, my mom's ma is 100%, i know her dad was from normandy, i forget where she said her mom was from...but i also know she lied like the dickens and wanted to be known as nothing other than american, lol.
the rest is german, irish, welsh, and swedish. i have an anthology around here someonewhere, i forget where in germany they were from.