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findemaxam48
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on: February 13, 2014 03:42
Irish, German, and American Indian.
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on: February 14, 2014 12:14
German. All of my relatives up to grandparents lived in Cologne when I was born. My paternal grandfather may have been from Kassel in north Hessia, but that's a guess on my part.
I was born in Karachi, Pakistan in 1956. We lived there for just under four years (the then three of us, my parents had been in Pakistan since about May 1954). After that a bit more than six years in Bombay (mow Mumbai), India. Then a short interlude (about 4 months) near Cologne. After that (in my case) nine years in the U.S., three years in Forest Hills, Queens, NYC, four years in Port Washington (Nassau County, north shore of Long Island) and two years in Hanover, New Hampshire. Since then in north Bavaria (Middle Franconia, there's Upper and Lower as well, and they all do NOT consider themselves Bavarians, that was forced on them by Napoleon), with a total of 12 Years in southern Hessia (Frankfurt and Offenbach am Main) 1984 to 1987 and 1999 to 2008.
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on: May 08, 2014 06:45
Same as findemaxam48 except not German but Prussian
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on: May 09, 2014 11:32
Maxie, do you mean American Indian or Native American? If the latter what nation?

I'm English back 5 generations, haven't looked any further.
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on: May 30, 2014 02:45
For me, New Zealander, Hungarian, Swiss, Austrian, German, English, French, Scottish, Irish and Mongolian
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on: May 30, 2014 04:10
Swedish. With a little splash of Norweigian and Finnish. Born and have always lived in Sweden.
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on: May 30, 2014 09:43
I'm full blood Korean but I'm adopted so I live in Oklahoma.
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on: February 15, 2015 12:58
I'm Irish and Scottish on my mom's side, but Puerto Rican on my dad's. (Puerto Rico is a little Latin island off the coast of
Florida, near Cuba.) So basically I tan easily, have an Irish temper, and am clannish like a Scot.
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on: February 25, 2015 10:59
From my mother's side: Guyanese (hooray for the West-Indes) and Turkish-Cypriot (I never met my grandfather, I only knew my Egyptian step-grandfather). But the Guyanese side descended from Portuguese-Dutch settlers.

From my father's side: Orcadian-Scottish (we have puffins), who are descended from Norwegian settlers, and Irish
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on: February 25, 2015 11:09
I am 75% Dutch and 25% German. Not very interesting but I'd thought I'd share

on a side note I always wanted to be Irish.


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on: February 25, 2015 12:24
I could never gauge percentages for my heritage. It's a bit too complex. What I wrote above is a highly simplified version!
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on: February 25, 2015 03:48
Hmm..... USA'ian.
Father's side: French, German, & Polish roots. My great grandfather was French from Alsace (Strasbourg area), which changed hands between the French & Germans a lot. He was drafted into the German army in 1871, but split and hopped a ship to America with his brother. That was my grandfather's side. My grandmother was of Prussian and Polish roots.

Mother's side: It gets quite complicated here. Mom has traced her roots back as far as the English Jamestown colony in Virginia in the 1600's. Along the way, Irish, Scottish, Cherokee, German, Italian, Russian, Serbian, Hungarian, Danish, and even a thread of Spanish has worked its way into the mix.

And now this heritage mash-up has found his way to Australia.
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on: February 26, 2015 03:12
Long line of Prussian cavalry officers on my father's side of the family (both of his parents, oddly enough) and Romanian/Ukrainian Gypsy on my mother's side of the family. As for how the genes played out in my case, I've always contended that I'm Prussian from the neck up and Gypsy from the neck down.
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on: March 01, 2015 05:40
Chinese. I'm the first in both family lines to be born outside of China (USA).
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on: March 25, 2015 01:25
I am half German from my dad's side and a quarter Irish and Native American from my mother's side
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on: March 26, 2015 01:13
I'm English and Irish on one side and Scottish and Welsh on the other. But that is my great-grandparents. All my grandies and parents are Aussie.
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on: March 31, 2015 12:50
Almost completely Italian, but a little bit of Polish from my mother's side!
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on: May 07, 2015 10:44
As far as I know Lithuanian, from both sides.
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on: May 10, 2015 10:53
As far back as it can be traced, on all sides, I am Polish.
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on: May 20, 2015 01:02
On my mom's side: Mostly german, scottish, English, and I believe a little Italian.

Also, interesting fact, I am distantly related to Queen Elizabeth the First.
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on: July 20, 2015 09:51
I am half Indian... like, actually India, in the continent of Asia.
My dad was born there. From my mom's side I am more than a quarter Irish, less than a quarter English, and a tiny bit German and an even smaller bit Swedish.
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on: July 26, 2015 01:15
It looks like here are many part or complete germans here

My mother came from Portugal but is as german as you can bee. My dad is german, too, but it is possible that his father or grandfather came from Poland, this family line isn´t very clear.

By the way: Do you speak any of your "family-languages"? Or eat more dishes from the lands your family lives? Or nothing like that?
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on: August 13, 2015 02:11
I only speak English (and a tiny bit of Spanish, I guess). But in my house my mom makes a lot of Indian food (she learned how to from my Dadi) and we eat that very often.
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