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Not like ethnicity, but ancestry. Given that most of this forum seem to be white males. :p

Personally, I put "Australian" ancestry for the Census, as my family were here for ages. But....

Dads: His dad's side is English - his grandma was born on a boat from England. His mum's side is Welsh and Irish.

Mum's: Mostly English and Scottish, but she also can trace some vague French ancestry.

Yours?

Obviously, I consider myself a Pole by virtue of birth, citizenship and culture, although my family originally came from Lusatia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lusatia) hundreds of years ago. Naturally, I have mostly Polish DNA after all these years.

I also have a partial Jewish, Lithuanian and Ukrainian heritage.

I'd say American; some from the Netherlands, some from Germany, a lot from Ireland, a good chunk from England, some from Scotland. So overall, it's just American.

Father's father's family is German, and resided in Milwaukee (where I grew up as well) since the late 19th century.  Father's mother's family is half Norwegian and half Swedish, and resided in the Chicago and/or Milwaukee area for at least ~100 years as well.

My mother is Canadian (she was born in Peterborough, Ontario), and that side of the family is an unholy mix of everything from the British Isles (English, Scottish, Welsh, and Irish...am I leaving anything out?), though English is the biggest contributor.

On a related note, I have a family tree somewhere that traces my father's father's family in Germany back to the 18th century, and there's this one generation with about 4 or 5 sons all with names that are a variation on Johann or Johannes (with different middle names), and 4 or 5 daughters all with names that are variations on Anna or Maria (with different middle names).

I also put Australian, but ethnically mixed Anglo-celtic.

Dad's side: German and English
Mom's side: Irish and Italian

Dad's side is all German.  Mom's side is mostly English with a little mutt for flavor.

100% from the island of Great Britain - England, Scotland and Wales. My mother's ancestors are all from England so far as I know, Dad via his mother Scotland (great, great grandfather was an engineer who lived in Scotland and got a job in Montreal, moved there, eventually formed his own company and built the  steam engine that powered the first steamship that crossed the Atlantic (his last name was Bennet (unusually spelled), so I wonder if the senator from Colorado is a distant relative)) and Wales (the woman Bennet married), and via his father English.

Greek & Serbian

Scottish.

I am ethnically homogeonous. My dad’s dad’s side is Scottish (Leitch), as is my dad’s mum’s side (MacLachlan). Her family have been living within one mile of each other for at least 250 years. There is some Ulster-Scots blood in there too, which in itself is ethnically Scottish. My mum’s dad (Keenan) was of Irish stock, though he himself was third generation Scottish. My mums mum (Allen) is also Scottish. There is some Provencal blood in there, but apart from that there’s nothing much exotic.

My dad's family is Prussian, while my mother's is Russian

My family is like the Sirius Black family, Austrian through and through.

I don't think there was ever any foreigner in my family tree.

English, Scottish, Irish, German, French, Swiss.

I'd certainly hope not.

Why that ?

Because Gypsy hunts ain't cool.

You are in the wrong country. There are hardly any Gypsys here (they are in Hungary).

But you are probably suggesting that if some foreigner were coming into the family, there would be hostility towards him/her. I don't think that would happen.

Nope, just a double entendre.  I was pleased there have never been foreigners in your family tree. So yeah, I make word play about lynchings....

Two of the countries it is much better to be from, than in, no?  :P

That's why my grandparents fled both of those countries, Torie :D

Dad's side: One half is originally from Ireland (my great great grandfather allegedly fled Ireland because he was caught stealing horses from the cavalry) so are staunch Catholics, the other are as far as I know Presbyterians who have been in Scotland since forever with at least part of them coming from Arran. There is also a random French relative from Lille but that was a long time ago.

Mum's side: One half have lived in the same village in the south of Italy for at least 300 and probably more years, although there is an exotic tale of a distant ancestor who came from the north. The others are from the greater Manchester area but I don't know much about them.

Dad's dad's dad's family was largely German.
Dad's dad's mom's family was from the South since forever (at latest the late 1700s), so probably mostly Scotch-Irish.
Dad's mom's family was from the Mid-Atlantic/Northeast since forever (some since the mid-1600s), so some combination of English, French Huguenot, Dutch, Scottish, Irish, German, and all that jazz.
Mom's dad's family was largely Irish Catholic, including some from County Waterford.
Mom's mom's family was largely Northern Irish Presbyterian, though they lived close to the border and some were from what's now Ireland.

It was a great family scandal when my mom's dad married my mom's mom.

I'm on 23andMe and have both my parents involved, so I can also give estimates based on that.  23andMe estimates that my dad has ancestry in about this order:
1. UK
2. Germany
3. Ireland
4. Norway
5. Italy
6. Sweden
7. Poland
8. the Netherlands

My mom, meanwhile, has:
1. UK
2. Ireland
3. Sweden
4. Spain
5. Poland
6. Norway
7. France

Note that the UK and Ireland nearly swamp out all the rest of everything, while my dad's ancestry is much more diffusely arranged, in line with the fact that my mom's ancestors are much more recently in the US than my dad's.  There are also a variety of other considerations at play here, but I won't go into them too much :P

Dad's mostly German, but his grandfather was Irish. Mom's also mostly German, but her grandfather was Welsh.

Greek of course

My father is from fairly generic Midwestern stock (German and Irish) and my mom is Mexican but has a wonderful tapestry of roots there including a mestizo line that extends back to the early colonial days, full-blooded Chichimeca ancestors that entered the family line in the early 1900s and a Galician emigrant grandfather.

Ashkenazi Jewish

We all know our Senator Duk(e)akis :)

Dad's side: All German, from the Bremen area.

Mom's side: Irish, Welsh, English, & Luxembourger

Father's family of solid Flemish (Well 'Flemish', Limburgish) stock at least untill the 1750's with just a touch of Prussian blood in the form of my great-grandmother. Mother's family is Flemish-Dutch. (Zaandam, I believe, may be mistaken about that, thinking it trough it's almost certainly entirely wrong.)

100% Danish back to around 1600-1620, which is the longest I can trace my family. All peasants and craftsmen to around 1900. So pretty boring lineage.

~50% colombian (northern spanish descent), 25% lithunian, 12.5% irish, 12.5% english. maybe some other stuff.

1/4 Welsh + some Quebecois.

Dad's side: Czechoslovakian, Luxembourger, Swiss, French (partially Alcase-Lorrainian) and Arcadian (both maritime Canada and Louisiana), British

Mom's side: German, British

Let's see here
Dad's dad's dad: English ancestry (Washburn)
Dad's dad's mom: German ancestry (Lutes)
Dad's mom's dad: Irish & Scottish ancestry (Tindall, mother was a Bishop of Scottish descent)
Dad's mom's mom: Irish ancestry (Quirt)
Mom's dad's dad: German ancestry (Frobel)
Mom's dad's mom: English ancestry (Pack)
Mom's mom's dad: Irish ancestry (Sproule)
Mom's mom's mom: Irish ancestry (Patrick)

So, that's 1/4 German, 7/16 Irish, 1/4 English and 1/16 Scottish

Should be noted that all Irish ancestry I have is Protestant Irish (both sides), from Ulster.

Mother's side
Mother: Welsh, English
Father: English, Irish, Maori and French

Father's side
Mother: Prussian, German, Jewish
Father: English, Scottish, Aboriginal

So Anglo-Northern European, with Indigenous seasoning... yeah, a mutt.

In order of prominence; Norwegian, German, Russian, Swiss, Polish, Welsh

white 'mutt': at least half-, possibly 9/16-Jew; German, Russian, Irish, English, various E. European and all the things that result from changing borders of yesteryear

My mother's mother is from Feni; the rest of my family is from the area around Sylhet. Some of my dad's family lies across the border in Assam, but they're Sylheti, too.

Both my parents are half-Swedish and half-German, though I'm sure their ancestors came from different parts of Germany. Also my maternal grandmother's ancestors were clearly Pietists which sets them apart from most Midwest Swedish-Americans.

dad's dad: Midwest; Scottish
dad's mom: Midwest; English/Cornish and German
mom's dad: Ohio; (very) Welsh
mom's mom: New England/Eastern Provinces; Scottish and French

On my dad's side, United Empire Loyalist (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Empire_Loyalist).  On my-mom's, Dutch/Deutsch.

My mother's family originally settled in New France with the first settlers in the 1500s, they came from Saint-Malo (Brittany), though with the ways families are in practice, there's probably a whole mix of Native American/Normand/Poitevin/Flemish/Picard/Irish etc blood in the line anyways. My father came to Canada in the 1970s, his family is from Brittany, though I've heard something about some people having moved from Flanders/the north of France during WW1. Hence, predominantly Breton/Celtic.

Cool. I have this ancestry as well. Of course, it's more common in Canada :/ Apparently, if I can prove my lineage, I am eligible to add "UE" to my name. :)

Being a descendant of the Loyalists is the genealogical equivalent to being a Mayflower descendant for Americans. I believe I also have a Mayflower ancestor, so I've got both. (The Washburns have been in North America since the 1600s, and were at one point a powerful political family in Massachusetts; one of the branches leads to a Mayflower passenger)

Dad: 50% German, 50% Italian
Mom: 20% Scotts/Irish, 30% German, 40% English, 10% Cherokee
Moms Mom: 50% English, 25% Scotts/Irish, 25% Cherokee.
Moms Dad: 50% English, 50% Irish
Dads Mom: 100% German
Dads Dad: 100% Italian.

My Dads family is the Axis Family :P Both of my moms parents were born and raised in West Virginia, and their families have been in the region for a very, very long time. My moms dads mother was from the Cutlip family, which is very big, and was referenced in the Hatfields and McCoys the other night. My moms moms mom (tongue twister) was descended from the English Compton family.

     Paternally, English Catholic (hence, probably Anglo-Irish in reality). Maternally, Galician (probably some Castillian Spanish & maybe even Moor mixed in there), German, & Swiss German.

Paternally, Austro-Russian. Maternally, Franco-Irish.

All 4 of my grandparents are from Uttar Pradesh.

99 and 44/100% pure.

We suppose it is (my grandfather was adopted, so we don't know his parents and his heritage) 15/16 French (like Hashemite, they came in New France in the 1600s, from various regions, mainly Normandy), 1/16 Native.

Irish paternally, Sicilian maternally.

I found some random additional info on my maternal ancestors, from her father's line:
http://www.francogene.com/genealogie-quebec-genealogy/004/004043.php

The guy was born in 1639 in Saint-Malo, Brittany and died in Quebec in 1680. He married and had five kids. His wife was born in Quebec but her dad came from La Flèche (Sarthe) and her mom from Paris. Which just goes to show how quickly you get off track when tracking down ancestry and how diverse it is. I had no clue that my distant, distant, distant ancestors were also from the Sarthe...

This page: http://www.famille-arbour.com/2011/11/30/famille-hayet-dit-malo-gilles-1610/ seem to continue down and includes family names (Forest, Malo) related to my family.

German, Norwegian, English, Scotch-Irish, Swiss

In my adoptive family, the maternal side is namely of German and Czech/Bohemian immigrant background whereas the paternal side has a blend of Irish, English, native Chippewa, and - to a lesser extent - French Canadian heritage.

Almost all German, with a bit of Russian, Lithuanian, and Hungarian.

Almost all Ashkenazi Jewish, with a little bit of some sort of Crimean Jew on my dad's dad's mom's side (she died in the '50s, so I've never really known her or anyone who did). I don't know about Krymchak or Karaite, though. However, since my first language is Russian and my middle name is an Eastern Slavic patronymic, and 'Ukrainian-American Jew who speaks Russian as first language' is apparently too complicated for people, over the past few years I've ethnically self-identified as 'Russian', while continuing to religiously identify as 'Jewish' even though at this point my beliefs are basically agnostic.

All Filipino. Although I might have European or Chinese ancestry deep down.

Mostly Russian, but 3 of my great-grandparents were Belorussian, Ukranian and Chinese(all on dad's side).

Both of my parents were born in Cuba.

My father's side is primarily white Spaniards who moved to Cuba in the 19th century. They come from Cáceres, which is in western Spain.

My mother's side is much more diverse, including white Spanish and French, Afro-Caribbean, and Chinese elements (mostly the former). However, that does mean I'm 1/8 black.

It's probably a bit more complicated than this, of course. Nevertheless:

50% German (maternal grandfather's family is from Dortmund; paternal grandfather's line from Osnabrück)
25% Irish (paternal grandmother)
25% Sorbian (maternal grandmother is allegedly 100% Texas Wend (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wends_of_Texas))

Half Japanese on my mother's side, and half Scandinavian on my father's.  Though his family got to the United States (and settled in Minnesota) in the middle of the Civil War, they never were involved in it.  And if they had, I am certain they would have fought on behalf of the Union as they later became staunch Republicans in the post-war years.  

1/4 Italian, 1/4 Swedish, 1/4 German, 1/8 English, 1/8 Scots-Irish. There's a bit of French mixed in with the English; apparently, my "English" relatives are descendants of French nobles that fled during the Revolution. Some Spanish and Greek may be connected with the Italian, but it's too far back to really matter.

It's funny, I have an Italian surname, but look like a Northern European.

For anyone that didn't know yet: 100% Italian.

Ethiopian (Gurage) on my mother's side, Ghanaian (Fante) on my father's.

Paternal Grandfather: German, either born in Germany or on the boat over.  He was an only child, his mother died in childbirth or soon after, and his father died when he was 12.  Then he died when my father was 12, so we know very little about his family.  A guy I know speculated that because of his last name and a few other things, his ancestors may well have been Jews who were "Germanized" by the Prussians in the late 19th century.  However, my father said his father was a strict Lutheran, and his father was an even stricter one, so I'm not sure I buy that.

Paternal Grandmother: Norwegian-American.  Her parents immigrated to Seattle in the late 19th century.

Maternal Grandfather: English and Scottish descended; Maternally English (patriarch of that side was actually Danish and moved to London as a boy in the 19th century) and the Scottish side immigrated to Canada in  1905 and still live in Ontario.  His father's side is also English, so English they most likely fought against the Normans at the Battle of Hastings according to his research (he wrote a book, which is why I know all of this).

Maternal Grandmother: Her family has lived in the mountains of western North Carolina for centuries.  There is a book of family history for each of her parents but I don't have access to them.  Judging from her father's surname he is probably descended from Britain, though I know  he has some Cherokee in him.  I think his father might have been half-blooded Cherokee?  His English ancestors probably settled in Chesapeake bay in the 1600's as indentured servants and then moved south to the Carolina Mountains when the landowners cheated them (which was a common occurrence).  Now my grandmother's mother is descended from a German clan that came over a little later, though when I don't know.  She is mixed with both Cherokee and Creek Indians, though I don't know how much.

So that's me, American mutt.

German, Russian and Hungarian.

1/2 Denial, 1/4 Bitterness, 1/4 Recrimination.

Sounds exactly like my family ;)