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**dumadegg** · 06-27-2012, 02:30 AM

I voted yes.
My nationality/citizenship/heritage is American. But my ethnic background comes from my pre-USA ancestors. My pre-USA ancestry is English, Czechoslovakian (Czech and Slovak), Welsh, Scottish, German, French (including Belgian), distant Swiss, and Dutch (Netherlands/North Holland). So I am a blend of all of these. I'm 1/4 Czechoslovakian, and the other 75% is a blend of mostly British Isles, with Dutch and German and French.

I'm not a British citizen but I am a direct descendant.
Three of my my grandparents had British ancestry, most is on my mother's side. Most came over in during the Colonial years, but my most recent was from the late 1800s. I have Welsh on my mother's side but not on my father's side. I have English and Scottish thru both my mother and father, but mostly my mom.
Three of my grandparents had German ancestry, most is on my father's side.
If either of my two Czechoslovakian Great Grandparents had German ancestry, then that would give me German ancestry thru all four grandparents. They did name three of their sons with German first names, but that's not conclusive.
One grandparent had Dutch ancestry (blended with English and French and German).
I have small amounts of French/Belgian on my father's side and French/Swiss on my mother's side and additional distant French (Aquitaine and Normandy) on my mother's side. And further back in time there is more stuff from various places in Europe.

On my mother's side, family groups intermarried (cousins or distant cousins) so that is why that side is more solidly English (Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina), and many were already cousins to each other before they left England. While on my father's side (New York and New Jersey. New Netherlands Colony) various ethnic groups of all Protestant denominations married each other (Dutch, French, German, Scottish, English. Since I'm matching people from Finland at 23andme maybe I have some unknown ancestry from the New Sweden Colony too, which bordered the New Netherlands Colony). My Czechoslovakian-American grandfather was born and raised Catholic (New Jersey, USA) but became a Protestant to marry my grandmother.

06-27-2012, 02:30 AM	#19
dumadegg Join Date Nov 2005 Posts 381 Senior Member	I voted yes. My nationality/citizenship/heritage is American. But my ethnic background comes from my pre-USA ancestors. My pre-USA ancestry is English, Czechoslovakian (Czech and Slovak), Welsh, Scottish, German, French (including Belgian), distant Swiss, and Dutch (Netherlands/North Holland). So I am a blend of all of these. I'm 1/4 Czechoslovakian, and the other 75% is a blend of mostly British Isles, with Dutch and German and French. I'm not a British citizen but I am a direct descendant. Three of my my grandparents had British ancestry, most is on my mother's side. Most came over in during the Colonial years, but my most recent was from the late 1800s. I have Welsh on my mother's side but not on my father's side. I have English and Scottish thru both my mother and father, but mostly my mom. Three of my grandparents had German ancestry, most is on my father's side. If either of my two Czechoslovakian Great Grandparents had German ancestry, then that would give me German ancestry thru all four grandparents. They did name three of their sons with German first names, but that's not conclusive. One grandparent had Dutch ancestry (blended with English and French and German). I have small amounts of French/Belgian on my father's side and French/Swiss on my mother's side and additional distant French (Aquitaine and Normandy) on my mother's side. And further back in time there is more stuff from various places in Europe. On my mother's side, family groups intermarried (cousins or distant cousins) so that is why that side is more solidly English (Maryland, Virginia, and North Carolina), and many were already cousins to each other before they left England. While on my father's side (New York and New Jersey. New Netherlands Colony) various ethnic groups of all Protestant denominations married each other (Dutch, French, German, Scottish, English. Since I'm matching people from Finland at 23andme maybe I have some unknown ancestry from the New Sweden Colony too, which bordered the New Netherlands Colony). My Czechoslovakian-American grandfather was born and raised Catholic (New Jersey, USA) but became a Protestant to marry my grandmother.
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