What countries did your ancestors come from?

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My dad's side is Czech....

My mom's side is Yankee...

It's all over the place for me, and it's tied to Dutch colonialism. My mother was born in the Netherlands, but her parents were both born in the Dutch East Indies (which is now Indonesia). If I take it back to my grandparents' ancestors, there's Germany and China beside Indonesia.

My father was born on Curaçao in the Netherlands Antilles (which remain a Dutch colony to this day); his mother is Antillean as well, she descended from African slaves who probably came from Guinea Bissau on the African West coast.
My father's father was born in Surinam (another Dutch colony). He has forebears in Twente (Netherlands) and India.

This all may seem very complicated, but Surinam is an ethnic melting pot to begin with, and in the East Indies it was very common for Europeans and Asians to mix (Eurasians).

Wow, looks like I differ. LOL. Anyway, I'm a purebred Filipino.

My dad's side is from the southern part of Luzon island, while my mom's side is from the northern part.

Norway and Sweden, possibly Austria, or... as most europeans, possibly: all of europe.

Spain, and with spain ^^^ maybe arabic for all i know...

Peruvian and carribean. not sure where in the carribean, my grandfather is peruvian mestizo. carribean black, goes to west africa.

im from everywhere

Pretty far back from the Netherlands. I am too lazy to look on my sister's webpage to see if there are even ancestors from other countries at all.

Mostly Germany!

And some various other areas in Europe on my mom's side... France, England, Poland and Lithuania.

This seems to be very important to Americans. Why is this? Is it because they've got no true identity of you're own?

If you say to an Irishman that you're Irish when actually you've lived in the US all your life and have only an American passport he'll either laugh at you or get rather irritated. Plastic paddies they call 'em.

im norwegian, in norway, born here, always been here, read what i said about europeans

we're more mixed than you think, if you excamine it some, youll see.

I woudln't say it's important per say but if someone asks your nationality.. they are likely trying to place where your particular mix of physical characteristics come from and 'American' doesn't mean anything because it's such a conglomeration. When I say 'German' you can probably bet that I have fair skin and light hair.

Adoptive mother: Irish and I think French?

Adoptive father: German and English

Biological parents (from what I know): mostly Irish and some English


My appearance from what I understand is pretty much the prototype "black irish"--naturally light skin, but capable of getting a deep tan and doesn't burn easily; greenish eyes and almost black hair.

Dad's side = Poland

Mom's side = England

Parents both Scottish but beyond that it also includes English,Irish,Ulster Scots,Anglo-Indian
and Norman (i.e. French/Viking)

Right. But he's talking about "Norwegians" from Minesota, for example.

Someone's great great great great grandfather Olaf came to America before USA was even founded, and today they still call themselves Norweigans? They've never even been in Norway, nor do they know anyone there, nor do they speak the language. This bugs me too.

norway
germany
north america (native)
ireland
england
where ever the dutch are from.

as far as i know...

Father's Side: Hungarian, Jewish (Sephardic)
Mother's Side: English, Irish

Ireland, France.
That accounts for about 75 percent of it.