Mother's side of the family is Jamaican; dad's is Dominican - I know the family back to Great Grand Parents but not beyond that.

Given the number of Africans that were stolen to work in plantations in the West Indians back in the day, and that fact that I have a french surname I can guess the rest.

I am first gen British.

BklynBabe said:

Shout out to Brooklyn!!! We in da house! I'm adopted so I have no clue at all. To look at me Imma guess that like most African Americans I have a heavy dose of European and Native American. I have red hair and a temper so Imma guess some Irish. And when I put my hair in pigtails I totally look like a Native.

Do you want to find out who/where your parents are? If you do, you should do some research. A faster way is talk to a psychic. Sylvia Browne would be a good choice. She can tell you people's names, e.t.c.

Black

German

Irish

dutch

danish

scottish

french

native american??

I wish I could find somewhere to do DNA analysis to trace family orgins. I know there are places that do cheek swabs but Iam lucky to have my great, great grandmother's bible with a locket of her hair in it. I would like to take a piece of her hair and have it analyzed. Especially since I don't know much about my black ancestory on that part of my tree. At least this my prove the family story of her father being full blooded indian. I know that seems to be a common theme of most black americans that they supposedly have indian heritage. I need some proof.

jaimestarr79 said:

I wish I could find somewhere to do DNA analysis to trace family orgins. I know there are places that do cheek swabs but Iam lucky to have my great, great grandmother's bible with a locket of her hair in it. I would like to take a piece of her hair and have it analyzed. Especially since I don't know much about my black ancestory on that part of my tree. At least this my prove the family story of her father being full blooded indian. I know that seems to be a common theme of most black americans that they supposedly have indian heritage. I need some proof.

It would have to have the hair follicle attached in order to extract the DNA.

Dalia11 said:

I'm for the most part of Icelandic origin (which means in most cases a homogenous mixture of Norwegian and Celtic blood dating back more than 10 centuries), the closest non-Icelandic ancestor I know of was a Danish merchant of Jewish origin who lived in Iceland in the 18th century.

I saw myself in the mirror a while ago and I think I'm probably black.

Joking aside, I really have no clue about the rest of my ancestry, there's a lot of holes there. Sure, there's been talk on both sides of "Indian in the family", but to be honest that's something most African-American families say .

A couple of my mothers siblings did do a bit of research a few years back, and they found no Native American, but caucasian - a governor from the southern portion of the United States, wayyyyy back in the family tree. But really no one is one-hundred percent anything anyway, and I still consider myself BLACK.

Serious said:

Lammastide said:

Wow. That's not cheap.

yes, but i should have mentioned it covered genetic health traits/ i would take this test before becoming pregnant/ your child may have physical and mental problems. EX. no one on either side of my family has ever had a cleft palate yet my DNA test warned me of a 40% chance of my child being born with it just with my DNA. it would save a lot of pain for many want to be parents

armpit said:

I saw myself in the mirror a while ago and I think I'm probably black.

Joking aside, I really have no clue about the rest of my ancestry, there's a lot of holes there. Sure, there's been talk on both sides of "Indian in the family", but to be honest that's something most African-American families say .

A couple of my mothers siblings did do a bit of research a few years back, and they found no Native American, but caucasian - a governor from the southern portion of the United States, wayyyyy back in the family tree. But really no one is one-hundred percent anything anyway, and I still consider myself BLACK.

You could always ask a psychic, right. About this lifetime and previous ones. Another option, would be to have some researcher look in to it. There is a program on PBS, I forgot the name of it, where alot of celebrities have found out info about their family tree. Ms. Winfrey was one of the celebs on the program.

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Dalia11 said:

BklynBabe said:

Shout out to Brooklyn!!! We in da house! I'm adopted so I have no clue at all. To look at me Imma guess that like most African Americans I have a heavy dose of European and Native American. I have red hair and a temper so Imma guess some Irish. And when I put my hair in pigtails I totally look like a Native.

Do you want to find out who/where your parents are? If you do, you should do some research. A faster way is talk to a psychic. Sylvia Browne would be a good choice. She can tell you people's names, e.t.c.

LOL.

researched my lot back to the 1600's england, scotland & ireland, so we're not very adventurous or exotic, i'm still in uk

but i really enjoyed trawling through documents & stuff, plus i discovered my great grandad was not a gypsy who ran off to join the circus which is what his wife told everyone when he left

30peacessilver said:

Serious said:

yes, but i should have mentioned it covered genetic health traits/ i would take this test before becoming pregnant/ your child may have physical and mental problems. EX. no one on either side of my family has ever had a cleft palate yet my DNA test warned me of a 40% chance of my child being born with it just with my DNA. it would save a lot of pain for many want to be parents

Interesting.

I've been helping out with tracing my family's history and keeping record

We've gone as far back as my mother's great great grandfather who was Irish and a slave master. His son, my great great grandfather was irish, native american and black.

My mother's father, she and I are now researching. He was black, native american, and west indian

My father's family, I'm not close with but I do now that along with African American, there's possibly french or irish and native american

I don't know for sure, I know my maternal grandfather has french ancestry, but my maternal grandmother was from germany and was part Yugoslav. On my fathers side is also a french but potentially northern italian name - despite probably centuries in sweden.

Who know!!!

ZombieKitten said:

I don't know for sure, I know my maternal grandfather has french ancestry, but my maternal grandmother was from germany and was part Yugoslav. On my fathers side is also a french but potentially northern italian name - despite probably centuries in sweden.

Who know!!!

There is a program called, "Who Do You Think You Are?"

on NBC, Fridays, 8 p.m. ET. Lisa Kudrow is the producer.

The program is about tracing the genealogy of celebrities. I have not seen it yet. Have you?

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Dalia11 said:

ZombieKitten said:

I don't know for sure, I know my maternal grandfather has french ancestry, but my maternal grandmother was from germany and was part Yugoslav. On my fathers side is also a french but potentially northern italian name - despite probably centuries in sweden.

Who know!!!

There is a program called, "Who Do You Think You Are?"

on NBC, Fridays, 8 p.m. ET. Lisa Kudrow is the producer.

The program is about tracing the genealogy of celebrities. I have not seen it yet. Have you?

[Edited 3/21/11 8:07am]

Yes, I watch it faithfully. The last one I saw was with Rosie O'Donnell. Lionel Ritchie was on last week.

Both parents are from Honduras.

As far as my actual ethnic "origins"...that's murky.

Honduras - as much of the new world - is a land of natives and immigrants.

My mother's side of the family is definitely European. My great-grandmother was a green-eyed Nicaraguan from a wealthy land-owning family. There was no "mixing" on mom's side of the family until her generation.

One of my great-great-grandmothers on my father's side was Irish, and my brother (as well as some cousins) has freckles and a sprinkle of red hair on his head (in fact if you look at my beard, there's a few red strands mixed in there!). My dad looks very "indian" (if you google "Lenca" people you see what he looks like).

So I am "Hispanic" but my blood is European, Indian, and possibly a bit of African in there somewhere.

I have no idea. My mom says that my great grandfather was Spanish but who knows.

Dalia11 said:

ZombieKitten said:

I don't know for sure, I know my maternal grandfather has french ancestry, but my maternal grandmother was from germany and was part Yugoslav. On my fathers side is also a french but potentially northern italian name - despite probably centuries in sweden.

Who know!!!

There is a program called, "Who Do You Think You Are?"

on NBC, Fridays, 8 p.m. ET. Lisa Kudrow is the producer.

The program is about tracing the genealogy of celebrities. I have not seen it yet. Have you?

[Edited 3/21/11 8:07am]

no, I don't have NBC, I live in Australia

In no particular order

I am African, West Indian, Irish, and Native American, but to look at me, you would say that I am an African-American female. I, especially. love wearing my "Kiss Me, I'm Irish' tee every St. Patrick's Day. The reactions that I get...some people are too caught up on what they see.

Of Asia, and the Americas!

mimi02 said:

In no particular order

I am African, West Indian, Irish, and Native American, but to look at me, you would say that I am an African-American female. I, especially. love wearing my "Kiss Me, I'm Irish' tee every St. Patrick's Day. The reactions that I get...some people are too caught up on what they see.

I'm going to start celebrating my 1/16th Irish blood from now on!!!

PurpleJedi said:

mimi02 said:

In no particular order

I am African, West Indian, Irish, and Native American, but to look at me, you would say that I am an African-American female. I, especially. love wearing my "Kiss Me, I'm Irish' tee every St. Patrick's Day. The reactions that I get...some people are too caught up on what they see.

I'm going to start celebrating my 1/16th Irish blood from now on!!!

Yes, you should. Celebrate every race that makes you...you.

Personally, I feel that we should be allowed to check the box next to "Other" whenever race/ethnicity question is asked, because unless you live in some very isolated part of the globe that has not experienced immigration, we're all of mixed blood.

mimi02 said:

PurpleJedi said:

I'm going to start celebrating my 1/16th Irish blood from now on!!!

Yes, you should. Celebrate every race that makes you...you.

Personally, I feel that we should be allowed to check the box next to "Other" whenever race/ethnicity question is asked, because unless you live in some very isolated part of the globe that has not experienced immigration, we're all of mixed blood.

We had a whole discussion (actually, more than one) on here about the term "Hispanic" and "Black" since you could have Irish/Spanish ancestry or Aztec/Spanish or Italian/Mayan or English/Lenca or Aztec/African or Chinese/African (or any combination thereof) and be "Hispanic".

I look Pakistani, but had to mark "white" on the census.

Maternal...russian, from a town near odessa

Paternal...polish from the same town pope john paul came from

mother's side - jupiter

father's side - mars

My Mother was German/Irish and my Dad is Filipino

Venezuelan - mestizo

Egyptian- father from aswan.

London born.

Came out very light skinned.

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