What's your ethnicity? thread.

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I'm predominantly English, an 1/8 Irish, and very distantly French.

At least, it's a possibility since I studied my family tree at school, and found a family on my mum's side with a French surname.

Some commonly asked questions/misconceptions about me:

- Are you Russian?

Not that I know of. I tracked my family tree up to three generations, and found no documentation suggesting that any of them lived anywhere near Russia.

-Your hair is like Merida's, wait are you Scottish?



It's possible.

My hair tends to get quite a few questions, it's quite curly, thick, frizz prone, and a dark strawberry blonde. One woman once wondered if I was part Caribbean, which took me by surprise considering the fact I'm quite pale and blonde.

She saw my mum but not my dad, and was surprised to see how much my hair varied from my sister's (which is much straighter and less thick), so she wondered if I had a different father to my sister or something.

When my sister brought that up to our mum, she laughed and remarked "Sadly I never met any dashing young Caribbean men in my time, otherwise who knows?".

My sister used to have slightly wavy hair, but she's straightened it so much over the years, that it just stays straight now.

Physically, I'm African American (black). I also have black, thick hair although I have it cut to almost nothing now. My skin shade is like Darc's from the Arc the Lad video games. I don't know my family history. My mother was in foster care so she has no idea about her side of the family, and I never talk to my 'non-existent' biological father or anything so I have no further information regarding whether or not I have anything else.

My aunt and mother work on our family tree as a hobby, so I could get some raliable knowledge many generations back.
Mainly Polish, 1/16 Russian, some Czech genes, generally all local, Eastern European.
Father unknown like 5 generations above, probably the whole village knew who he was back then but no record was made.

We were fairly surprised that they didn't find any Jews, because my family was often thought to be at least partly Jewish, based on the looks. Well, maybe some old genes, baptized in Middle Ages? It happened in Poland quite often. Or the unknown father? We have no idea.

With my light beige skin, straight brown hair, teal eyes and heavy eyebrows I can easily disappear in the crowd in any place in Europe and some parts of Middle East (tested).

On my mother's side: Eastern European: Ashkenazi Jewish, mostly Russian

On my father's side: Germanic: Dutch, German, Anglo-Saxon, Irish. My last name means "Shortlands" in Dutch. In other words, the predominant land type in the Netherlands.

As far as I know: no Native American or African ancestry. But if it so happens that I have that sort of ancestry, I'd be a "richer" person because of it.

Swiss and Irish.

My mom is what they call black Irish because she has dark grey eyes and black hair, which I inherited.

Mostly English, Irish, Welsh, and Scottish but also some Italian and a little German.

Mostly German, some English, some French (via French Canadian), and via the German side some circumstantial evidence of a possible pinch of Jewish ancestry.

My father is Turkish and my mother's father is Cretan and mother Turkish. So I'm a tiny bit Cretan but mainly Turkish. I'm quite pale with (originally) light brown hair and dark brown eyes. I also have some freckles on my nose. People constantly tell me I look nothing like Turkish. Even people in my country mistake me for a foreigner and talk to me in English.

I'm Mostly English and Irish with some French and Italian there are rumours that we are descended from a black slave women I don't know how distant this is but my great Grandfather looked like about as black as Ice T or the creole people from Louisiana.

You probably have some African blood, then.

Yeah I think so apparently the slave woman was raped and the child was helped out in someway my Grandfathers family were somewhat middle class they were tenant farmers in Pendle and lived in Alice Nutters old house she was a woman who was killed for being a witch in the pendle witch trials. My family claim the Father of the child was one of the Dewhurst brothers who owned butchers, but I cannot find information about them. I can find information about the Vestey Brothers who owned Dewhurst butchers which was once the largest Butcher chain in the UK and they were the wealthiest family but I don't think its them because they didn't come about until the late 1800's. My Great grandfathers surname was actually Dewhurst but he took his his stepfathers name.

Almost entirely Norwegian; one of my great grandfathers was Danish.

On my dad's side: Mediterranean. His dad was Calabrian and his mom the daughter of a Sicilian immigrant. My mom's side is more of a mystery. Her grandmother immigrated from Norway, but that's all I know about her family. I ended up with features like my dad's and his thick, curly hair, though for some reason, I missed out on either side's coloring and ended up very pale with ashy brown hair and heterochromatic ("changeling") hazel eyes. Both my parents are dark in every respect, so it's weird. I was convinced that I was adopted as a kid.