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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #105 on: January 20, 2012, 08:19:44 AM »
Quote from: metty on January 19, 2012, 11:47:52 AM
Where do you guys get these percentages? DNA test?

My paternal grandmother is 100% Cherokee, so it's easy for me to say 1/4 Cherokee. Can't speak to the others.
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #106 on: January 20, 2012, 08:25:50 AM »
Quote from: erik16 on January 20, 2012, 07:57:59 AM
My god you people are so international  :lol
You live in Estonia, though, right?

Many of us simply live in North America.  Tracing our ancestry is important to us because many of our histories here are very short, and many of our family members do have a strong connection to other countries.  For instance, one side of my family, the latest of my side to immigrate, has Polish speakers and celebrates Polish traditions.  They call themselves Polish.  On my dad's maternal side we have annual reunions under a Norwegian flag, bringing together each of the five families of the children from the original immigrants.  On my surname line we've been here the longest, nobody from that line has a strong connection to immigration, I think I'm 7th or 8th generation on that line.  It's the only line we don't know reasonably close relatives from ancestral countries.  We know we're a Prussian line with German mix, but that's about it.
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #107 on: January 20, 2012, 03:49:56 PM »
I have no source for any of this data, they never kept records like that in Egypt because we are records-sloppy by nature imo. You wouldn't believe the amount of data I can't find out about my country. I get lucky every now and then to meet people who're old enough -or a next generation passed on- to have some small detail that would make the picture clearer for me about something at certain point in time but that obviously wouldn't get past the 20th century.
But I look as Egyptian as it can get, I've been told I look like Tutankhamun and most of the Pharaohs in the painting on the temples walls heh
I really wanna do that DNA test that tells you exactly who you're made of. I heard they're expensive but I didn't look into it in depth yet.
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #108 on: January 20, 2012, 04:08:17 PM »
Mostly Finnish with some Swedish thrown in and funnily enough some 'Merican blood too.
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #109 on: January 20, 2012, 10:53:28 PM »
Most: Swedish, German, Polish, English
Least: Irish
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #110 on: January 21, 2012, 12:40:49 AM »
Quote from: kingshmegland on January 16, 2012, 01:39:09 PM
Lebanese, Irish & French.  So I'm 75% terrorist.
:rollin


As for myself... well it's quite complicated.
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #111 on: January 21, 2012, 01:35:36 AM »
ITT: we learn less about Nem than we ever thought possible.
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #112 on: January 21, 2012, 01:43:33 AM »
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #113 on: January 21, 2012, 01:49:43 AM »
Quote from: obscure on January 21, 2012, 12:40:49 AM
Quote from: kingshmegland on January 16, 2012, 01:39:09 PM
Lebanese, Irish & French.  So I'm 75% terrorist.
:rollin


As for myself... well it's quite complicated.

Mutt?
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #114 on: January 21, 2012, 02:45:20 AM »
my curious boys....  :D ... well being born a territory where loads of different civilizations lived for centuries and mixed each other, my grand parents had different bloods in them... they went to other places and came back and stuff.... thus the both European look and Asian eyes.... as loads of people I met have put it ....
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #115 on: January 21, 2012, 03:15:48 AM »
Quote from: obscure on January 21, 2012, 12:40:49 AM
Quote from: kingshmegland on January 16, 2012, 01:39:09 PM
Lebanese, Irish & French.  So I'm 75% terrorist.
:rollin


As for myself... well it's quite complicated.

Judging by your accent, I will guess 10% Russian, 10% German, 10% English, 10% Mexican, 10% Antarctican, 10% Native American, 10% Swedish, 10% Irish, 10% Bacon, 10% Klingon, 10% Romulan, and 10% miscellaneous. Also may contain traces of nut and dairy.

Don't bother adding up those percentages. Both you and I know that's more than 100%. And both you and I know that it's still correct. Somehow. Don't ask me how.
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #116 on: January 21, 2012, 03:17:18 AM »
 :lol holy shit... thanks for helping me out...

yes guys... what blob said....  10% bacon  :rollin
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #117 on: January 21, 2012, 03:19:42 AM »
Quote from: obscure on January 21, 2012, 03:17:18 AM
:lol holy shit... thanks for helping me out...

yes guys... what blob said....  10% bacon  :rollin

Don't worry, I promise not to tell anyone which 10% of you is bacon. :eyebrows:

Yeah, that's right guys. Pure f'ing bacon.
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #118 on: January 21, 2012, 03:37:10 AM »
*requests clearance for porking bacon*






































If that's kosher
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #119 on: January 21, 2012, 03:47:09 AM »
Quote from: BlobVanDam on January 21, 2012, 03:19:42 AM
Quote from: obscure on January 21, 2012, 03:17:18 AM
:lol holy shit... thanks for helping me out...

yes guys... what blob said....  10% bacon  :rollin

Don't worry, I promise not to tell anyone which 10% of you is bacon. :eyebrows:

Yeah, that's right guys. Pure f'ing bacon.

:eyebrows:
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #120 on: January 21, 2012, 03:56:50 AM »
3/8 Norwegian, 1/8 Russian, 2/8 Thai and 2/8 Malaysian!
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #121 on: January 21, 2012, 06:19:02 AM »
i am scotish right through to my haggis core  ;D
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #122 on: January 21, 2012, 07:38:54 AM »
On both my mom's and dad's sides, I'm 4th-5th generation born in the USA, so that would make me American before anything else. 

Mom's side- German, Irish
Dad's side- German, Irish, Italian
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #123 on: January 21, 2012, 09:34:48 AM »
My grandfather once tried to go as far back in our family-genealogy as possible.

Dutch, right from 1600-1700 or so, till now. All Dutch.
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #124 on: January 22, 2012, 11:08:06 AM »
Quote from: obscure on January 21, 2012, 12:40:49 AM
Quote from: kingshmegland on January 16, 2012, 01:39:09 PM
Lebanese, Irish & French.  So I'm 75% terrorist.
:rollin


As for myself... well it's quite complicated.

Aren´t you (part) Turkish?
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #125 on: January 22, 2012, 11:17:37 AM »
Coonasses and Mexicans.

and yet I'm a pasty white ghost.
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #126 on: January 22, 2012, 11:32:24 AM »
Quote from: Cyclopssss on January 22, 2012, 11:08:06 AM
Quote from: obscure on January 21, 2012, 12:40:49 AM
Quote from: kingshmegland on January 16, 2012, 01:39:09 PM
Lebanese, Irish & French.  So I'm 75% terrorist.
:rollin


As for myself... well it's quite complicated.

Aren´t you (part) Turkish?

I am...
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #127 on: January 22, 2012, 12:55:44 PM »
Nem's jive Turkish. :P
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #128 on: January 22, 2012, 01:02:10 PM »
 :lol
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #129 on: January 23, 2012, 03:42:10 AM »
That's our Nem....ever so  mystical.  ;)
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #130 on: January 23, 2012, 03:43:56 AM »
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #131 on: January 23, 2012, 12:35:09 PM »
You might even say... "obscure"
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« Reply #132 on: January 23, 2012, 01:53:31 PM »
 :heart :-*
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #133 on: January 23, 2012, 02:01:51 PM »
Quote from: obscure on January 21, 2012, 12:40:49 AM
Quote from: kingshmegland on January 16, 2012, 01:39:09 PM
Lebanese, Irish & French.  So I'm 75% terrorist.
:rollin


As for myself... well it's quite complicated.

Don't get me drunk or I'll bomb this messageboard.
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #134 on: January 23, 2012, 02:04:11 PM »
trying so hard to keep the mouth shut.
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #135 on: January 23, 2012, 02:08:27 PM »
Quote from: obscure on January 23, 2012, 02:04:11 PM
trying so hard to keep the mouth shut.

*wants to put the sexest joke here for all infedells*
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #136 on: January 23, 2012, 02:12:18 PM »
Quote from: kingshmegland on January 23, 2012, 02:08:27 PM
Quote from: obscure on January 23, 2012, 02:04:11 PM
trying so hard to keep the mouth shut.

*wants to put the sexest joke here for all infedells*
haha everyone is trying hard.....  :lol


well I'm so drunk aanyway..... so I dont mind.....
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #137 on: January 23, 2012, 09:46:19 PM »
Armenian.

Am I the only one?  :lol
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #138 on: January 24, 2012, 02:12:36 AM »
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Re: What's your heritage?
« Reply #139 on: January 25, 2012, 07:35:21 AM »
Quote from: Millais on January 16, 2012, 01:07:45 PM
50% Irish, 40% English, 5% French, 5% Scottish
How do you have anything other than binary fractions of ancestry? (like 1/2, 1/4, 3/8, etc)  I don't get 40%..

As for me, I am 50% Italian.  My paternal grandfather is 100% Sicilian (born in New York), but since Sicily to my knowledge is a melting pot of the mediterranian, I'm not sure Sicilian captures it all.  I've heard from several different places that our surname may actually be Greek.

My paternal grandmother's parents are from Naples (also born in NY).  Don't know much else.

My maternal grandmother was born in Hamburg, but her father's birthplace is likely in modern day Poland.

My maternal grandfather's family traces roots in the US for many generations as far as we know, but we seem to think they are of English and/or Irish descent.  Reynolds and Elliot are some surnames from his family.
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