What is everyone's background?!

**Alysser** · 03-05-2006, 04:10 PM

75% italiano

25% Irish!

**krazyaboutkatz** · 03-05-2006, 04:55 PM

I'm about 75% German with about 25% English thrown in. My last name is German.

**Lizzie** · 03-05-2006, 05:36 PM

I wish I was a mix but, like a few others, I'm just one flavour. Not only am I just British but both sides of my family, for many generations back, came from and lived in Derbyshire. I do take comfort in the fact that my father's side of the family loves the sea and boats/ships, perhaps indicating some Viking heritage. He also had a Roman nose, which I inherited to some degree, so perhaps there's a dash of Italian from centuries past.

**lisalee** · 03-05-2006, 05:38 PM

100% Italian on my dad's side and german and irish on my mom's side.

**lizbud** · 03-05-2006, 05:38 PM

On Mom's side 100% Irish (county Cork)
On dad's side Shawnee/French.

**Catty1** · 03-05-2006, 07:33 PM

Scottish - Dad's dad(tiny bit of English)
Swedish and American - Dad's mom
Ukrainian - Mom's parents

Spanish colouring(brown eyes and hair on my Dad's side) from the Basques who came to Scotland at the time of Robert the Bruce. Leslie clan, name translated from the "delisles" from France who came over about the same time.

Many many Russian/Ukrainian people show an 'asian' look to their faces(eg, Yeltsin), thanks to the Huns of centuries past. Because of the Bering Strait theory, this could cross over into First Nations/Asian.

As I heard a Canadian comedian say, I'm a genetic cul-de-sac!

Sorry to run on - I just find this sort of thing really interesting.

Catty1