What is everyone's background?!

**BC_MoM** · 03-04-2006, 09:29 PM

My great great grandpa was a duke of Denmark just before WW2 broke out. He fled to Canada because the Germans were going to kill him. The part of Denmark he ruled is now a part of Germany.

So I'm Irish (my Mom was born there), Ukranian, German/Danish, and Canadian.

**Flatcoatluver** · 03-04-2006, 09:38 PM

I am all dutch.

**Maya & Inka's mommy** · 03-05-2006, 04:38 AM

Originally Posted by Flatcoatluver

I am all dutch.

What do you mean? Are you from the Netherlands or Belgium then??

I am 100% Belgian, although I prefer to say 100% Flemish

(Flanders is the Dutch speaking part of Belgium: everybody speaks Flemish (= Dutch!) here.

**ChrisH** · 03-05-2006, 05:37 AM

Mum's side - English & Welsh.
Dad's side - no idea, not even who he was.

So I am a true mutt and could be a mixture of any nationality.

For some reason, as I was conceived just after the war ended, I have always hoped my dad was one of the Americans who were stationed over here at that time... silly, huh.

**Miss Z** · 03-05-2006, 07:01 AM

Wow, everyone is more mixed than i thought! I'm a mix of Welsh from my grandad. My mum is from Nottingham and my Dad is from Oxford. But me, i feel 100% Lancastrian

!

**sandragonfly** · 03-05-2006, 07:31 AM

50% Italian & 50% Mutt = Gina!

italian - father, also 2% cherokee
mutt - mother = scottish, german, british, irish .....
and of course, golden retriever! (true, I love catching balls, rolling or having a ball!)

everyone says I look like a mexican..

until they see my surname - completely italian!

**rosethecopycat** · 03-05-2006, 09:20 AM

All Sicilian.

But I am mistaken for Irish.

I have fair skin (freckled face-red hair-dyed),
but my hands/legs are olive skin. Plus green eyes.

I have been told I'm a 'throwback' to another fair skinned relative from 1900's named:
Gussamina.