What is your national ethnic background?

Regradless of your current nationality, what are your earliest known roots? Use the flags. (based on Pape's post in the illegal immigrant thread)

Here is me, from greatest proportion to least;

:finland:

:france: :germany:

:ireland:

:scotland:
:sweden:
:england:
:portugal:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/image...ags/sweden.gif

and either

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/image...gs/germany.gif

or

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/image...gs/bohemia.gif

my mom said 'bohemian' which I suppose could be either or.

:ireland:

:germany:


Not that it matters really. Though I do like saurkraut, my mother makes it like her mother did and so on I suppose.

Mine: :wales: :sweden: :england: :northernireland: :scotland: :england: :sweden: :wales:

My Wife's: :taiwan: :taiwan: :taiwan: :china: :taiwan: :taiwan: :taiwan: :china:

Therefore my kid's:

:wales: :taiwan: :sweden: :taiwan: :england: :taiwan: :northernireland: :china: :scotland: :taiwan: :england: :taiwan: :sweden: :taiwan: :wales: :china:

:england: (mostly) :wales: :scotland: :france: :norway:

Oh so many to pick from but the ones that I know that are on the flag list.

:spain: :scotland: :cherokeenation: :england: :ireland: :germany: :czechrepublic: and several that are not on the flag list that is available

Which makes me

:unitedstates:

:iran:




But who knows? Perhaps there is a bit of:

:saudiarabia: :iraq: :pakistan: :afghanistan: :mongolia:

In my blood. :book:

My ethnic Background: :wales: :germany: :scotland: :ireland:

Girlfriends Background: :ireland: :germany: :iran:

http://www.childrenuk.co.uk/chaug/gr...dutch-flag.jpg

mine :ireland: :wales: :england: :unitedstates: :spain:


wife :isleofman: :wales: :england: :india: :scotland: :germany: :turkey:

my background: :sweden: :norway: http://www.fjallen.nu/sapmi/images/small_flag.gif

my wifes: :panama:

:scotland: vast majority :ireland: :england:

:finland:

Mainly :england: with some :germany: and a bit of :scotland: .

There might be a bit of :northernireland: or :ireland: .

To a very large part :switzerland: with a little bit of :italy: and a very tiny bit of :germany:.

Quid

:gibraltar: Great-grandmother :scotland: great-grandad :england: Grandad :england: Grandma :england: Grandad :england: grandma :england: Mum :england: Dad

Then 1 of my Grandkids has 1/4 :ireland: 2 more are 1/4 :scotland: :2thumbsup:

:england: :england:

:england: :marshallislands:

:england: :wales:

:netherlands: and

Spoiler Alert, click show to read: 

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikiped...sian_flag.jpeg

Don't shoot me ~D

That accounts for 3 generations back, further on then that I have no idea and don't care much.

By far mostly: :germany:

With a touch of: :switzerland: and :france:

Last names would be fun too I guess: Köberle

This is not too easy to answer: I'm guessing from most people's answers that they are counting where an ancestor is born, rather than real ethnicity. On that basis then, given that my direct line goes back over seven hundred years, here's a potted history, going back in time, male first column: ~:)

:ireland: :russia: (Me, my wife)
:ireland: :unitedkingdom: (Irish mother born in Liverpool, capital of Ireland ~D)
:ireland: :ireland:
:ireland: :ireland:
:unitedstates: :ireland: (Born in the States, considered Irish)
:ireland: :france:
:ireland: :france:
:ireland: :ireland:
:ireland: :france:
:france: :france: (Born in France, but considered Irish)
:france: :france: "
:france: :ireland: "

... Before 1758, when we abandoned Ireland for safety in France, mainly :ireland: with the odd useful marriage to :france: and one :scotland: around 1380.

Mother's side -
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/image...gs/austria.gif
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/image...gs/hungary.gif
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/image...gs/croatia.gif

Father's side -
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/image...lags/italy.gif
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/image...s/slovenia.gif
https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/image...chrepublic.gif

The question reflecting all of this is: 'How the hell did all those people end up in the same place?'

Also, my national feeling is not particularly strong, with so many natonalities around in my family tree.

:england:

The clue was in the name...

Within the last few generations: :france: :netherlands: :belgium: (both Flanders and Wallonia)

My mother's family can be traced back to 16th century Westphalia, Germany :germany:
My father's surname apparently is ultimately derived from Norway :norway:

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/image...gs/denmark.gif

+

https://forums.totalwar.org/vb/image...gs/germany.gif

Mostly :norway:, and a little bit of :denmark:

:belgium:

mostly:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:
:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:
:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:
:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:
:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:
:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:
:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:
:wales: :wales: :wales: :wales: :wales:

and a chunk of
:cornish:

and a little
:ireland:

and a bit
:england:

Half this ::netherlands:

half :unitedstates:

And a little bit of :hungary:

which makes me : :netherlands: :unitedstates: :hungary:

:balloon2:

:sweden: :sweden: :sweden: :sweden: :sweden: :sweden: :sweden: :sweden:

I've heard about :finland: blood on my mothers side and both my parents surnames comes from :germany: though.