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I look mostly German and slightly Eastern European. I also have Scottish, Irish, British, Welsh, Black Irish and a little Cherokee ancestry on my dad's sides (the Cherokee is documented, so its not like I'm making it up).
I researched what Black Irish meant. No one really knows. Some think it means Irish people who have Spain ancestry.
Paternal grandmother was full-blood Irish. Paternal grandfather over half German and the rest English
Mother's side: German (one family Bavarian, one family Alsatian-- came over speaking German with French passports, so I'm *technically* French, too), Irish, English, and Norwegian.
I guess that's not that mutt-y....mostly Western and Northern European...
White Southern. Yes, its an ethnic group. Survey almost any Caucasian person from the Southern states (except for Southern Louisiana) and you end up with a very similar mix. They may say "I'm just American", but most are a blend of English and Scots-Irish background, often a little dash of of the the "Five Civilized Tribes" mixed in.
Portuguese. My parents were from the Azores (my dad was actually born here but raised there). We kids were born here, and our mother obtained US citizenship quite quickly.
I love your country, from the North to the South, though the only one of its islands I've been to is Madeira.
I'm only 50% Polish, but my mother's family, as far as we know, is 100 percent Polish back to the little villages in what was at the time the Polish territories of the Austro-Hungarian and Russian empires that they emigrated from over 100 years ago. Mostly ended up in the Polish neighborhoods in Milwaukee and Chicago and parts of Michigan, but now my Polish cousins and I have all ended up assimilated Americans living in other parts of the country or Midwestern suburbs. My mother's generation was really the last to live in the old Polish neighborhoods and my grandmother probably was of the last generation to really speak Polish very often.
I was born and raised in Australia but my ancestry is English and Welsh. I currently live in the United States, and my husband's ancestry is French and Swiss.
It's interesting to see that Missouri and a huge chunk of the Midwest is mostly German!
My maternal side is entirely English, and my paternal side is mostly English and Irish, with a little Scotch and Cherokee. But my ancestors have been in the South since at least the mid 1700's, coming from Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia, so it is a little hard to trace. I almost see those states in the same way many Americans see their ancestors' native countries in Europe or elsewhere.
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