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Most people here have some ancestors from other former Austro-Hungarian territories. That said, people aren't really obsessed with genealogy, so it's not a big deal.
Southern Italian for many generations, mainly relatively remote interior regions. Personally relatively light hair and light skinned, and hazel eyes, but other family members olive-oil skin and brown eyes, most stocky/thick built.
Going back, who knows, but I imagine part Greek, part Longobard/Norman.
Among my great-grandparents, during the early years of the Savoyard Kingdom of Italy, a great-grandmother lived on one side of a river and her future husband, a great-grandfather, on the other side: more than a thousand years previously, this river marked the boundary between territory administered by Constantinople and Longobard Benevento, respectively, later united under the Normans and then other conquerors from northern/western Europe, including, a generation prior to their births, the (Spanish) Bourbon Kingdom.
Looking forward, it really doesn't matter, but it's satisfying to know.
Most people here have some ancestors from other former Austro-Hungarian territories. That said, people aren't really obsessed with genealogy, so it's not a big deal.
A lot of non-German speakers in empire times move to Vienna? And their children or grandchildren were native German speakers so they just merged in the native population.
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I disagree. There are lots of people here where I live that wouldn't have any ancestors from any other country.
I personally do have ancestors from Scotland and England but different countries no. It's not true to say that people crossed boundaries; what about island nations?
I don't think there was ever any foreign migration to Ireland or Scotland in the past really.
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Four or five hundred years ago, nation-states didn't really exist in the modern form. The current nationalities are a modern construct, created by shared language (sometimes imposed by the national government) living in the same political state for a long time (depending on the country.
On the other hand, even if a country such as Portugal has gotten an influx from all over 1000+ years, those populations all mixed by now, perhaps creating an ethnicity with a common heritage?
What about Ireland/Iceland/Scotland? I would say I don't have any foreign heritage what so ever.
I disagree. There are lots of people here where I live that wouldn't have any ancestors from any other country.
I personally do have ancestors from Scotland and England but different countries no. It's not true to say that people crossed boundaries; what about island nations?
I don't think there was ever any foreign migration to Ireland or Scotland in the past really.
There are plenty of examples I'm only going to post one link though.
What about Ireland/Iceland/Scotland? I would say I don't have any foreign heritage what so ever.
Iceland is probably the most consanguineous nation on earth. I doubt that you could find any two Icelanders that are more distantly related than 20th cousin. On average, any two people are probably 6th cousins or closer.
The celtic people were Europe's first great civilization, and the current Celtic nations are the remants of that 26 century old civilization. But there were people living in Britain and Ireland before the Celts arrived. Their blood is mixed in with the present inhabitants.
What about Ireland/Iceland/Scotland? I would say I don't have any foreign heritage what so ever.
I was thinking more of continental Europe. But won't having Scottish ancestry kinda count as another ethnicity?
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