Ancestry

[Alcar]

I got talking to a few friends today about their ancestry, and was quite startled to hear some of their responses. So it got me thinking, and wondering what the ancestry of some of the OWF members might be. Now when I refer to ancestry, I'm sort of leaning on the side of where they came from, or what cultures your family before you have descended from.

Personally, I am part:

Irish, Scottish, Welsh, British, Australian (English), and Aboriginal. Shocked as I was about the Aboriginal part, I was amazed to find out that my Mother's side carries it. Which is heaps cool

Alcar...

[Dipstikk]

German, Czec, Swedish, and maybe a little Norse.

That's me in a nutshell. My bloodlines don't stray far from those.

[Leto]

NZ Euro, Irish, Scottish (Both sides of the spectrum...) and a little Yugoslavian. Nothin' else really.

[mawk]

I am 1 part concentrate to four parts water.

[Cyber-Slig]

I have a bit of Irish blood. But, the rest is Scottish.

[The Shadowman]

I am 1/3 Irish 1/4 Scotish and the rest is full blodded Native American, Sioux Indian to be specific...well and a about 1/16 Blackfoot and Cherokee Native American also.

[Voodoo Hand]

I am 1/3 Irish 1/4 Scotish and the rest is full blodded Native American, Sioux Indian to be specific...well and a about 1/16 Blackfoot and Cherokee Native American also.

Shadowman,
It would be intereting to know how you arrived at those figures.

[The Shadowman]

heres how you get hertiage fractions
If your father or mother is completely of that area the you are 1/2
If your grandmother or grandfather is completly of that area then you are 1/4
If your great grandparents are completely of that group then you are 1/8
and so on...
But this pretty much only works for me because most of my ancestors are purely from that region. in order to be a 1/3 of something you would have to have a grandparent and a great grandparent both be of that group.

Oops, I just relized I did my hertiage percentages wrong, rounding it off it should be
1/4 Irish 1/4 Scotish and half Native American. 14/16 Sioux Native American and 1/16 Cherokee and 1/16 Blackfoot Indian. And maybe something like 1/48 Apache Native American somewhere in there....I don't even know who I figured that out. But as you can see I am mostly Native American, and more importantly proud of it.

[Rich]

I'm all man. Grrr.

I'm guessing that a very long time ago, before the Roman invasion, I had German ancestors. I may have Irish, Scotish or Welsh ancestors too, along with many other european ancestors. But in trace-able history, I'm pure English.

[Nate]

On my mum's side we're Hungarian-Jewish and on my dad's side we're Polish-Jewish, though my dad was actually born in Germany because my grandparents went to a refugee/Displaced Person's camp after the war until they got their visas to come to Oz. I'm told its a weird mix because Poles and Hungarians apparently hate each other. I know my dad's parents weren't too happy at first. On the night my parents got engaged they had invited a girl over for my dad to meet!

[SeaRex]

I am 1 part concentrate to four parts water.

Hehehe... good one.

I'm primarily German/Irish. Somewhere way back in my family, there was a full blood Cherokee Native American, so that makes me like... 1/32 Cherokee. Very little, not enough to tell in my (or my father's) skin.

Last time I checked, you have to be 1/4 blood to be a member of a particular tribe, but I could be wrong. The point is I don't go around saying "Look at me! I'm and Indian!" or something like that. Because that would be stupid.

[Rex Tirano]

My dad's Scottish, and mum was welsh. I have a great great grama from Australia and I think (according to our history teacher who traced everyone's named back [which is rather pathetic...]) I'm a roman person.

Tee hee hee.

[Esus]

I'm guessing that a very long time ago, before the Roman invasion, I had German ancestors. I may have Irish, Scotish or Welsh ancestors too, along with many other european ancestors. But in trace-able history, I'm pure English.

Yep, exactly the same here.

[Abe's son]

BWAHAHAHA! MAWK GOT FUXORED BY CODEK!

Oh god I love him... good to see he's doing something. Pwned!

Ah... so back to relevency.

I'm Italian, Scottish, I think I'm just a tad English aswell.

Mah, not much. I'm violent though...

[Wil]

…Scottish, Welsh, British…

Scottish and Welsh are British.

I'm just plain English as far back as I know. A couple of years ago I'd have loved to trace my family tree back to something interesting, but I just don't really care right now. I'm me, and no amount of family history is going to chance that. I may become more sentimental in the future.

[Teal]

I have NO IDEA what my ancestry is. All I know is that my parents are both English; my stepDad was raised in Scotland and Germany (as my grandparents were in the RAF) and has a scottish surname ("Scott" - how very unusual :P) but that's it. My biological Dad's surname is Boniface, so I guess there's some Spanish in him somewhere (if Boniface is derived from a Spanish name - I forget now), and I have a very Roman profile, so I guess if we went far enough back I'd be Roman too, but what the hey. My blood comes from all over the shop.

It does amuse me the way people say "I'm 1/2 Spanish 1/4 french 1/8 english and 1/8 welsh" as if that was their nationality - as if your nationality made some sort of big difference to your genus. (Although it amuses me more when people say "I'm 1/3 German" - 1/3, hey? Reminds me of a letter in the back of New Scientist - poster up in the Underground for Thirteen Ghosts with the tagline "terror has multiplied" and some wag wanted to add "multiplied by what, idiot? 13 is a Prime number".

I ramble. Whee!

[Oddish]

Well I'm a bit of Italian, Blagarian, and English. Both of my parents and grand parents are Bulgarian. My brother is English. My cuson is itialian and also Bulgrian.

[Silversnow]

I don't think I have anything special in my family. All my relatives are swedish and I've never heard of anyone who wasn't. There might have been people from the rest of Scandinavia in the family some time ago, a long time ago. I have some distant relatives in Russia, but they're my relatives by marriage so I don't think they count.

[Alcar]

Scottish and Welsh are British.

I thought at one stage they considered themselves seperate? As in, a long time ago. Afterall, my ancestry stretches far back into history, as does anyone else's of course

My father's side is completely Irish. But my Mother's is half Irish, and the other half is a long line of swapping backgrounds. It's my Mother's Father's side which is the most fun, and contains all the Scottish, British, Welsh and Aborigine Gotta love Grand-dad!

Alcar...

[Rich]

All our ancestors were cavemen. It is the same for every human alive.

[Fuzzle Guy]

Part Scottish, Manx, English

[Rich]

Part Scottish, Manx, English

I'm guessing that the English collonised Ireland and Mann. Correct me if I'm wrong.

[The Marching Mudokon]

I'm part Australian, Irish, NZ and English. The NZ and Irish is on my mothers side of the family and English and Australian is on my fathers side plus I was born in Australia.

[Rich]

Non-Aborigine 'Australians' are basically British.

[Cyber-Slig]

It seems Scottish blood is famous around here. Which is strange, considering how small my country is.

[Wil]

I thought at one stage they considered themselves seperate? As in, a long time ago.

Point. Politically speaking, I am correct, but of course Welsh and Scottish are separate races to a point. I don't know if British is a race. The original inhabitants were repeatedly pushed into Wales, Scotland and Cornwall due to the multitudinous invasions from mainland Europe. Ironically, the Scottish, Welsh and Cornish are more English than the current English.

[Rich]

Originally posted by Alcar
I thought at one stage they considered themselves seperate? As in, a long time ago.

It's more to do with the fact that the Scottish and the Welsh hate the English.

[Abeguy]

Part Irish, German, JEWISH (SORRY THE STICKY KEYS GOT TURNED ON WHILE I WAS TYPING THIS POST) AND SINCE WE ARE ALL KINDA RELATED TO EACHOTHER I GUESS PART EVERYTHING

[Nate]

Non-Aborigine 'Australians' are basically British.

Rubbish. More than 50% of Australia's population is at least partially decended from people who immigrated since WWII. Okay, so I made that statistic up but it's not far off. Look at me, I'm half-Polish, half-Hungarian. Plenty of my friends are asian or greek. Not too many people can trace their lineage solely back to the first-fleet.

[Alcar]

So true. The School I attend is basically comprised of: 50% Asian, 20% Mediterean, 20% Middle-East (Lebanese primarily), and 10% Australian / Caucasian. Out of the whole School, there is only one boy with black skin. Everyone else is either white, brownish-tanned, or tanned.

Alcar...