What Are Your Backgrounds?

All Polish. Grew up in a little Polish neighborhood near Montrose and Central in Chicago.

Go Cubs!

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Originally Posted by iCandiExotics

Aha are you a Guido ? XD

-Daniel

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HAha Yes, ya i get that alot was waiting for some1 to say it lol

I am a Slavic Jew, more or less. :gj:

My parents are both Jewish... Dad's side Ukrainian & Hungarian, Mom's side mostly Polish. Oh, and I'm third-generation American, unless you count my (late) Canadian grandmother as foreign-born. ;)

I'm American.

Yep, American. I'm sure long ago my great great whatevers came from europe. But I could care less what they are because I'm American :salute::salute::salute:

I'm an American mutt. All my ancestry is from Europe, probably northern Europe, but we've been in the US for more generations than anyone can recall.

Jim Smith

American.

AKA - Mutt. Don't honestly know my background beyond that and don't really care. All that matters is my current nationality.

I'm just gonna say American. :salute:

Family tree says... Scottish and Swedish

My forefathers came from Norway Sweden and Germany. I'm from Minnesota.

The family of my surname came here in the 1700's from Germany, first to Virginia and later homesteaded land in Indiana on the Ohio River as soon as it was opened to homesteading. They stayed there for well over 100 years raising tobacco as a commercial crop and primarily selling firewood to steamships that traversed the Ohio River. They inter married with other German families for the most part but also anglicized the name.
One of My Grandmothers was a French Canadian immigrant who came here at the age of 16 speaking no English. The other Grandmother immigrated from England at the age of 12 so that makes up 1/2 my bloodline between the two of them.
I know that there is a little Dutch and Irish way back and probably much more that I am not aware of as my family has been here for a long time.


My wife is descended from a Lithuanian Father and a Mother of Tennessee Scotch-Irish with the obligatory Cherokee and is a descendant of Daniel Boone.

So my kids get the whole recipe.

From my knowledge of the family's geneology, I think you pretty much ahve to go back to the early 1800s to find ancestors of mine who weren't born here. Plenty came over pre-revolution.

I've even got ancestors in the Jamestown colony, and am related to a general for the American army in the revolution.