Inspired by the African American thread....what are you??

[phorsenuf]

I am a mix of Italian, Polish and Russian. My dad was a Catholic Italian/Pole that married my Jewish Mother who was of Russian descent.

I grew up though raised as an Catholic Italian so I "classify" myself as Italian.

How do you classify yourself?

 

[coliebird]

I'm Italian - 100%.

 

[grinningghost]

Polish/Russian, but I consider myself an "American" - the hyphenated thing doesn't work for me.

 

[Tigger_Magic]

Heinz 57 here! (I've got Irish, English, Scot, German, Dutch and probably Swedish in the mix somewhere.) Easiest to just say "American."

 

[momof3disneyholics]

Exactly 1/2 Irish, 1/2 Italian. My kids on the other hand are 1/4 Irish, 1/4 Italian, 1/4 Black, and 1/4 German.

 

[agotta]

Def 1/2 Italian and I think the other half is made up of 1/4 English and 1/4 Irish. My mom was adopted so the second half is speculation

 

[WDWLVR]

First and foremost an American and proud to be one. I'm of Irish descent which I celebrate year round but especially one weekend a year when we go to Irish Fest in Milwaukee.

 

[ckay87]

Some kind of mutt from the pound - nobody really knows.

(I was adopted )

 

[Shugardrawers]

German on my father's side to the best we can figure (intersting story I'll post in a sec)
French on my mother's side.

On to the story: My father's father was just a tiny baby, maybe a couple of months old when he was found on the doorstep of a small bakery in a small village in Germany. Yes folks, it really does happen! There was only a short note in broken german that read "Take care of this baby please". It could have been written by a foreigner or it could have been someone who wasn't very literate. The couple that owned the bakery (my great grandparents) kept the baby and raised him as their own. He married a full german woman and they came to the US shortly after that. While doing geneology, my aunts think they were able to contact the brother of the man thought to have been grandpa's bio father but it was never clear how they were able to do that. This brother said that the father went to America shortly before grandpa's birth and never sent for his pregnant fiancee. The man they believe to have been his father died in Leavenworth prison. If all stories are true then we are 1/2 german and 1/2 french.

 

[sha_lyn]

pretty much the american melting pot here. Scottish, Welsh, and Cherokee that I know of.

 

[snoopy]

Paternal grandparents are from Italy, both born there and came over in their late teens, before they married and had my father.

Maternal grandmother was Irish and born in Ireland and came to the US when she wa 10. My paternal grandfather is my only grandparent born in this country -- his ancestry is French, Italian and Irish.

So I'm mostly Italian and Irish with a little French mixed in, but I most identify with the Italian culture as it was predominant in my home.

 

[Patch'sD]

Irish, German, and Polish.

I like to refer to myself as SICK Single Income Couple of Kids

 

[oogieboogie]

I'm Indonesian with Chinese ancestry. DH is Irish/German/Russian mix. My kids are by short definition American, by long definition Totally Screwed Up and Does Not Fall in Any Known Census Categories.

 

[helenabear]

American... mutt of Eurpoean flavors mixed into one

 

[Disney Doll]

I am American with Irish, English, & Czecheslovakian in my heritage.

 

[mamaprincess]

Wow! The Dis is so diverse! You all sound so beautiful. I am a proud American of african descent and a little european(french) from several generations ago thrown in for good measure.

 

[Blondie]

My mom's ancestors came from Ireland, my dad's ancestors came from Wales and Denmark.

DH is italian, portuguese and bavarian.

That makes our kids a Heinz 57!

 

[alabamaalan]

Confederate-American


I have been fortunate enough to find various Eurpoean ancestors, but it is all too far removed for me to claim. Most of my folks have been laborers/farmers in this region for several generations.

 

[Texan Mouseketeer]

I consider myself a mutt. We have Pennsylvania Black Dutch ( I don't know what that is, even), Cherokee, German, African American on my dad's side. But when my aunt did a geneology study, turns out my family had a lot of illegitimate children and a lot of lying about who was born to whom. My mother is the first in her family to be born in America from Norway, so I guess I am 1/2 Norwegian. My dad's side was so poor, we picked cotton with the slaves for something like 5 cents a day and that continued well on into the depression. My dad is always sure to point that out to my brothers who can be just a little too redneck and a little not so humble about their financial status sometimes!

 

[mickeyfan2]

American