What is your familial country of origin?

Yep, right far from Fharfrompuken.

 

I am a mutt, which if Bill Murray is right is the best thing of all. The pedigree includes English, Scotch-Irish, a little plain old Irish, a little Welsh, Czech, Jewish, and a little German.

 

Until the Norse came to Ireland it didn't rally have any cities. They founded almost all of those. then there were the various Norse incursions into England and Scotland during the 700--1100 AD period. They actually ruled a good portion of Northern England and parts of Scotland for some time. The 50% Western European could mean Angles, Jutes, and Saxons i.e "English" unless they broke that out in some way.

 

Still waiting on the test results, but as far as I know it's a toss up between German and English. As lwd pointed out, just about everyone from a European background is a "mutt". So I'm just going to say "northern European".

 

"Jewish and a little German", do you find yourself being mean to yourself sometimes?

 

Father's side: 100% German. Mother's side: Welsh, Scottish, German, and a bit of Irish.

 

Recent research by my brother traced my maternal grand father back to Andre Marcil dit L Espagnol who arrived in New France in 1663.

 

On my father's side, mainly English with one Irish great-grandmother, whose sister emigrated to NYC, so I have distant cousins in America. On my mother's side, English, specifically the North East, with Scottish ancestry further back. Haven't done the DNA test but have done some family history research.

 

Probably mostly Russian genes, as a long time ago our people left the Siberian area and the clever ones went to Hungary and the stupid ones to Finland. We have very good relations with Hungary as we are originally the same people.

 

For me it depends how far back you go.

Immediate ancestors, I'm half English (well, Yorkshire) and half Scottish. I like to describe myself as British!

If you go far enough back, I'm Scandinavian. My Scottish side came over with William the Conquerer, Yorkshire side has a good dose of a Scandinavian-specific medical condition (lots of Norwegians and Danes settled in Yorkshire). Weirdly my wife visited Norway shortly before we married and one of the guys she was staying with was my doppelganger!

 

In my recent absence from WW2F, I spent some time delving into my family history. I was able to reconnect with my now late uncle, my dad's youngest brother. As we were comparing family stories, I related one that my dad told me. He said that his father, my grandfather, told him that they had darker skin because they were part "indian". I had always presumed that was a made up story since they were farmers and would naturally have darker skin from exposure to the sun. When told this to my uncle, his eyes lit up. He said that his father, my grandfather, told him that his mother was 1/4 East Indian. This finally made sense of an anomaly I saw in my Ancestry DNA result. I had a large "blob" over the country of India. When my uncle did the Ancestry DNA test, he had a "blob" over northern India. In a nutshell, that meant that my great grandmother has a grandparent that was from somewhere in northern India or perhaps northern Pakistan. Never would have guessed that.

 

Half German and half Scots. More or less.