What is your national ethnic background?

[Divinus Arma]

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;

[Proletariat]

[discovery1]

and either



or



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

[Sasaki Kojiro]

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

[Papewaio]

Mine:

My Wife's:

Therefore my kid's:

[Justiciar]

(mostly)

[Redleg]

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

and several that are not on the flag list that is available

Which makes me

[InsaneApache]

Great-grandmother great-grandad Grandad Grandma Grandad grandma Mum Dad

Then 1 of my Grandkids has 1/4 2 more are 1/4

[Scurvy]

[Kralizec]

and

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Don't shoot me

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

[Kanamori]

By far mostly:

With a touch of: and

Last names would be fun too I guess: Köberle

[Louis VI the Fat]

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

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

[Banquo's Ghost]

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:

(Me, my wife)
(Irish mother born in Liverpool, capital of Ireland )


(Born in the States, considered Irish)




(Born in France, but considered Irish)
"
"

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

[Keba]

Mother's side -




Father's side -




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.

[English assassin]

The clue was in the name...

[Sjakihata]

+

[makkyo]

more than I'm willing to admit, plus some and somewhere down the line. Do I have any national pride towards these places? Nope. Because I'm still 100%

[Big King Sanctaphrax]

My family's pretty much all Welsh and English. Mostly Welsh.

[LeftEyeNine]

I'm told that both of my parents' families come from yörüks -the traditional nomadic tribal Turks, that is. I'm proud to be a local of where Ataturk 's paternal lineage used to live. Nobody knows if there are very slight mix-ups but I'm an annoying :

BTW, it's interesting to hear that Tribesman 's wife has some Turkish heritage and that in terms of Middle Asian values, SwordsMaster is a far-relative as well. We know Kazaks as a Turkish race.

Anyway, cheers for all from around the world.

[Dîn-Heru]

[Vladimir]

Damn, I was hoping they'd have a Soviet flag.