What heritage are you?

[Magpie Flynn]

My mom's Canadian and her side is Prussian/Austrian

My dad's side is German/Welsh with a touch of French

[Muffin]

I am Scottish, Norwegian, Irish, English, and French Canadian Indian.. I think there is a wee bit of Swedish in there too..

Stir that all up and you get a blonde hair blue eyed girl that tans! *thanks Mom*  

[Trillium]

Swedish, Polish, and German!

[Celtic Lady]

Swedish, English, Irish, Scottish, Dutch, German, French Canadian, Mohawk, and Lithiuanian

[Morgan Dreadlocke]

Irish, Scottish, Arapahoe Indian ancestry. Heritage? 2nd gen California beach bum. I am bound by and hold no alliegence to any of it 

[Laird Fraser of Lovatt]

100% Scot... Lovat Fraser & Gordon. 

[Butch]

Half Irish and half German.  Traceable to the roots!

[Becky10]

Hungarian/Italian on my mom's side and like all of Europe on my dad's (mostly Scottish, Clan Buchanan)

[Jared Thorne]

I have both German and Irish on both my mother's side and my father's side. I have French on my father's side (either Alsace or Lorraine, I'm not sure which) and Scottish on my mother's side, although from the spelling of her maiden name I would have thought English.

Though when I look up my family name at the genealogy booth at the faire (OhRF) they say it is Italian, but I don't look a bit Italian.

[Welsh Wench]

Mom---English, Irish, Dutch, German, Norwegian

Dad---Welsh, English, German, French Creole, Italian, Portuguese, French-Canadian (from Quebec), Alsatian (look it up)

Thank you, Mr. Italian ancestor, for the tan gene!  

[Dustin]

Ancestry that I've found so far: Scottish, German, English, French, Belgian, Irish, Basque, Cherokee, Creek

As for "heritage", my parents, both sets of grandparents, and two of four sets of great-grandparents were born in Alabama, as was I. Before that, it's Georgia, Tennessee, North & South Carolina, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Maryland. My most recent immigrant ancestor came to America in the late 1700's.

My wife's ancestry is a little less mixed than mine: mainly German, English and the possibility of Irish (not sure because of adoptions). Her heritage is Midwestern - back at least four, maybe five, generations are all from the same 150-mile radius area of western and central Illinois, the St. Louis area, and southeast Iowa.

[crashbot]

98% Irish. Born in Ireland, move to the US when I was a kid. Great grandfather on my mothers side married a Polish woman after ww1. 

One side of the family back to pre Norse founding of Wexford. The other side tracked to around 1500 in Ulster. So yeah, my family is Orange and Green. Makes for good times....

Never met any of the Polish side of the family.

[Captain Teague]

Old thread, but as I recently spent the big bucks for an Ancestry DNA test for personal and work purposes, I thought I would share.

Sent my DNA to ancestry.com, due to two things...
One I was always told by my mother that we had a family skeleton in the closet concerning her mother and a certain full blooded Cherokee Indian having a secret tryst and she was the result. So I spent my entire life being proud to be part Cherokee.
Two, an upper level boss at my job has been rather sticky about my hair length, even though it is within company standards. So I thought why not kill two birds with a single stone, confirm what I have been told and be able to tell the boss to step off, my heritage was more than enough reason.

So....I do the test and send it off, results come back and here's a few excerpts from the results:

You belong to haplogroup R1b, The Artisans, who first arrived in Europe from west Asia about 35,000- 40,000 years ago at the dawning of the Aurignacian culture. This cultural was remarkable for its subtle yet significant technological progress, like the shift from random flint collection to the use of a single stone core to shape flint tools as needed. Aurignacian decorative beads and jewelry could also be the first sign we have of the uniquely human quality of self-awareness and adornment. Additionally, some anthropologists believe that the Aurignacian culture was the first to paint. Either way, the people of this time period left behind fascinating cave paintings in France, Spain and Portugal.

NOTE this part, for anyone (like me ) who believes it can get far more defined in their testing....
There are several known subgroups of R1b. We're not yet able to tell you which (if any) of these subpopulations you match to, so we'll tell you a little about a few of them.

One subgroup of the Artisans, R1b3 (sometimes called R1b1c) is associated with the Cro-Magnons. Based on archaeological excavations, particularly in France, it's believed that the Cro-Magnons wove clothes, built huts and painted.

The Ice Age may have played a role in the dispersion of the Artisans. At the peak of the Ice Age a European ice shelf extended as far as southern Ireland, mid England and northern Germany, completely covering Scandinavia. Most of continental Europe was tundra and the land only supported trees as far south as southern France, northern Italy and areas north of the Balkans and across the Black Sea. Thus, the Artisans most likely moved south of the tree line for their resources, making permanent homes where their descendants remained even when the ice shelf receded. Others returned north once resources were again available.

About 70% of individuals currently residing in southern England are members of the Artisans. Other members can be found at high rates in the modern day populations of Spain, Portugal, France, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. Based on this observation and other archeological and historical information, it is likely that your ancient ancestors also populated these areas. The Artisans include a genetic group known as the Atlantic Modal Haplotype (AMH), which features greatly among the Irish and Welsh populations.

Some researchers believe that the genes associated with the AMH moved with the early Celtic migrations. Although ancient ancestral Celts were a diverse group and varied in many ways, certain mythologies are consistent throughout most Celtic traditions, despite geographic or tribal boundaries. More than 300 Celtic deities have been described, many of which are reflected in classic Roman counterparts. The god Lugh (or Lugus) may have played an important role among those deities. Folklore and storytelling has infused Lugh's character with magic and fantasy, given him credit for thunder and lightening, and placed his stage in the sky.

The widespread acceptance of Lugh in Celtic culture is supported by the use of his name as the root of city names. Lyon, the present day city in southeastern France was called Lugdunum in Roman times. The city of Leiden in south Holland may also have its roots in the name of the god.

R1b1c4 and R1b1c6 are very specific Artisan subsections found primarily in Basque populations, but also in Catalan, Spanish, French, British and German populations.

A unique modern day population, the Basque people self-identify as a discrete ethnic group in north-central Spain and southwestern France. Early Basque culture was basically democratic and their pre-Christian religion was formed around a superior female goddess, Mari. A rich mythology of Basque creatures and characters includes imps, giants, dragons, soothsayers and other nature-based deities. Traditional Basque cuisine was dictated by the mountains and sea surrounding Basque country. Lamb, fish and beans are typical ingredients of a Basque meal. The language associated with the Basque people is euskara, which linguists believe exists in a family by itself, and is not related to English or other western European languages. Members of the Artisans can be found at high rates in South America. Populations geneticists ascribe this finding to the movement of peoples from Iberia to South America over the last 500 years.

Final result? After the sizeable expense on this "Modern Technology," I am left far more confused than ever before.
Anyone wanna adopt me? 

[Merlin the Elder]

Do you do windows?

[Captain Teague]

XP or 7?