What's your heritage?

[Caroline H]

I thought that maybe it would be fun for people to post their heritage, to help us all get to know each other a bit better. I will go first...

First off, I have some Irish (hence the name Murphy!) on both sides,
Cherokee,
English,
German, (just a bit),
And who knows what else!

Are there anymore mutts out there? :silly

 

[MISFIT]

1/2 Mexican (Aztec)
1/4 Welsh
1/4 Norwegian

I like my odd mixed heritage it fits me well.

 

[John]

1/2 Irish, 1/2 Acadian

Muise is not my legal last name, I only use it because my birth father was not the best of charaters and i can't afford to change my last name at the moment. My legal last name is Tracey and although i don't like my birth father i love the origins of Tracey.

The Irish name Tracey is derived from the native Irish O'Treasaigh Septs. The name is taken from the Irish word "treasach" meaning "war-like" or "fighter". It is also translated as "higher", "more powerful" or "superior". It may also be derived from the Irish word for three, with an association to the Tuatha Dé Danann.

 

[MISFIT]

1/2 Irish, 1/2 Acadian

Muise is not my legal last name. My legal last name is Tracey

The Irish name Tracey is derived from the native Irish O'Treasaigh Septs. The name is taken from the Irish word "treasach" meaning "war-like" or "fighter". It is also translated as "higher", "more powerful" or "superior". It may also be derived from the Irish word for three, with an association to the Tuatha Dé Danann.

Although I prefer not to give my last name online I will tell you a funny thing about it. It's a french name and I'm Mexican! We still don't know how it happened.

 

[John]

Although I prefer not to give my last name online I will tell you a funny thing about it. It's a french name and I'm Mexican! We still don't know how it happened.

LOL that is quite the mystery!

 

[Caroline H]

That's cool...Murphy comes from O'Murchadh which means "sea warrior"

Misfit, you must have an interesting family

 

[MISFIT]

Misfit, you must have an interesting family

And I didn't even get into all of their religions. Good bunch though I love 'em.

 

[Blazin Bones]

I've got a pretty good bit of culture in these veins

I'm German, Irish, Welsh, Norwegian, Scottish, and Dakota Souex...and a few other things I'm sure.

 

[heather]

Mostly I'm equal parts German and Fox Cherokee. I can trace my Cherokee lineage to the Fox nation chief. He would be my grandma's great- great- grandfather. They come the hills of Kentucky. My grandma's grandma was full-blooded Cherokee and married an Iroquois. Rumor has it that mom's grandma would hop around the kitchen yelling in Cherokee when she got mad. She married a hot-tempered Irish man and that's how my grandma got the maiden name Hendrix. Also, she took my mom's aunt to see one of her medicine men when the doctors couldn't figure out why my great-aunt wasn't gaining weight. He performed a ceremony and buried a string. Then he told them that unless they found and dug up the string, she would continue to gain weight. Now she's over 400 pounds and can't lose it no matter how hard she tries.

So, back to the OT...
I'm Fox Cherokee, German, Irish, Iroquois, and quite possibly a little bit English (Welsh, maybe). My dad seems to think that there's some Black Foot in there too, but hasn't been able to prove it.

 

[Rick W]

French, German, English and some Welsh I think.
All in all I'm a mutt.
:D

 

[Blazin Bones]

Here, here for the Mutts!

 

[andyredeemed]

I'm about 1/2 Irish, 1/4 Italian and 1/4 Scottish. My Missus is part English, part French, and part Cossack(which explains her wee short legs).
(I hope she doesn't read this thread :o )

 

[MarkSB]

50% German
25% French
25% Dutch/Polish/Other

100% Mutt :D

 

[destiny]

My mother informed me a few months before her death that her father (my granddad) wasn't her real father, he adopted her (He and my Grandmother are deceased). She had very little to no info on her real father. My mouth hit the floor to say the least!

On my fathers side we are sottish and Irish, on my mother side, French and parts unknown.

PS>>>Any of you guys could be my kin people. :D

 

[Mongoosey]

I am about half Irish half Swedish.

my last name means peace in Gaelic but they were mercenaries, so a bit of a mix up i guess.

 

[VaultZero4Me]

Cherokee, English, Irish, German

Just another cup from the melting pot.

 

[Blazin Bones]

My mother informed me a few months before her death that her father (my granddad) wasn't her real father, he adopted her (He and my Grandmother are deceased). She had very little to no info on her real father. My mouth hit the floor to say the least!

On my fathers side we are sottish and Irish, on my mother side, French and parts unknown.

PS>>>Any of you guys could be my kin people. :D

Destiny, could it be that she didn't want to tell you you are actually part rhino?

 

[destiny]

Tim, I guess it's possible that our royal squirrel pedigree is mixed with Rhino somewhere.

That would mean there's some warped looking youngin's running around somewhere. Could it be that I've been too blind to see??
:

 

[Blazin Bones]

Nah, if you were too blind to see you've have bat in your heritage not Rhino.

 

[brakelite2]

Looks like we're all mutts. In NZ I'd be called a bitza. Bits o' this and bits o' that.
Mainly Irish and Welsh here, with a smattering of Scot and English and Jamaican. My wife's Maori, I have one son-in-law Samoan and another part Cook Is and part Maori. So my gran'kids are like licorice all-sorts.

PS interesting that so many of you guys have Indian backgrounds. Cool.