i just found out where my extended family is from
 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uhler

i'm not kidding either. i asked my mom, after i found out there really is a city in germany named uhler, and she confirmed that on my father's side (which is 100 percent german) his family did come from the city of uhler.

i find it funny that my family was named after the city they are from.

Cool.

I'm something like:
40% Irish
25% Slavic (Croatian and maybe some Polish)
15% Scottish
6% Native American
6% French
5% English
2% Welsh
1% Spanish

heteropaternal superfecundation?

your mum must be really wild.

my grandmother is called Jenina Toscano, Toscano means Tuscany i think? She's Maltese anyway.

I am

50% English
25% Maltese
25% Canadian

My surname is Foggo, which means nothing, in any language, we have no idea where it came from???
apparently its a town in Nigeria http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foggo I am not Nigerian.

Well, I'M related to Samuel Peploe, the famous painter.

For the record I'm around 1/3 Irish 1/3 english 1/3 Canadian but I'm also part Spanish and Scottish.

a few yrs ago i found out i am related to neil armstrong

For real?

oh shit i meant
Strong Arms Neil

Ahhh yeahhhh. PEERS.

Also, strangely, there is a character named after me on the Australian soap opera Neighbours.

Something like:
50% Russian
25% Polish
25% German

According to Wikipedia there are a shitton of places called Berg. In Germany, Austria, Scandinavia... But I'm not Scandinavian. Whatever, it means mountain.

Pfft, Neighbours...
More like..Geighbours

lolol.

</homophobic joke>

One half of my family is Scottish, the other is probably somewhere else in Britain.
From Wikipedia:
"The most common explanation of the origin of the surname Wood is that it was used to describe a person who lived in or worked in a wood or forest. This name derived from Middle English "wode" from the Old English "wudu", both of which mean "wood."
Another possibility is that the name derived from the Old English "wod" or "wad", meaning "crazed" or "crazy," and was used to describe someone considered mad or violent, or a warrior or savage in battle. An example of the use of this term is in the pun in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, "And heere am I, and wod within this wood."
The most common explanation of the origin of the surname Wood is that it was used to describe a person who lived in or worked in a wood or forest. This name derived from Middle English "wode" from the Old English "wudu", both of which mean "wood."
Another possibility is that the name derived from the Old English "wod" or "wad", meaning "crazed" or "crazy," and was used to describe someone considered mad or violent, or a warrior or savage in battle. An example of the use of this term is in the pun in Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, "And heere am I, and wod within this wood.""

Or the city was named after your family?

I did a bit of reserach on Torres (my last name), there is a small town near the Basque region of Spain called Torres. It is named after the towers in a castle/fortification near the town.

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?hl=en&q=Porto+Torres+Sassari,+Italy&um=1&ie=U TF-8&sa=X&oi=geocode_result&resnum=1&ct=title

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porto_Torres

i'm
7% armenian
4% polish
2% roman
8% aztec
1% transylvanian
3% chadian
7% tuvaluan
3% nunavutian
6% swazilandian
0.5% eritrean
8% qatari
6% oman
5%yeman
1% democratic republic of congoan
4% martian
9% togo landian
2% byzantine
6% carthaginian
5% canine
7% feline
8% divine
0% american
4% syldavian

thank you! its about time we stop counting in these silly ratios. feel it in the one drop!

i was going to rant about how blood quanta are ridiculous notions, but this is way better!

i'm 150 percent american!

i'm afraid of americans.

I'm 100% European. But I have origins from many countries in Europe

I don't understand it when you ask someone where they from and they tell you that they are from the country their parents are from when they were born in another one. The whole ''I'm second generation......''.

i just say that i am english, but people get more curious because of my last name.


But i like having a weird double-barreled last name.

Mostly Polish, Czech, and Hungarian. About 3/4 of my greatgrandparents came to the US around the turn of the 20th century.

i am 100% Scottish.

REPRESENT.

I'm 1/4 German and 3/16 Hawaiian. The rest is Irish, Scottish, and a mix of Eastern European. There might be some Native American and some British/Indian in there too.

I always say I am TEXARICAN

born in Puerto Rico, stayed until age 8, moved to Houston Texas.

Well pretty much all of my family is from Ireland, but even having not lived there myself i still identify myself as being as Irish as I am English simply because the people ive known the longest in my life are all Irish and ive been there so often in my life.
Incidentally the picture below me is a famous Irishman who i am directly related to, so its said.

I am American, with Mexican descent.

I know a lot of people who would frown at that. I ask myself is that bad, to call myself that, because I know little of my Mexican heritage. Whatever.

I have family descended from ze Germans, and share their love for good beer and terrible Schlager music.

Just cos you look a certain way doesnt make you Hispanic, you could have Jamaican ancestry, have lived in Britain from a young age and then moved to Canada in your teens.
Like this chap

What does 'Canadian' mean when used in this context?
Native?

I've never really been able to figure out or find out from anyone what my maiden name means, the best guess I have is that it means "From Catalonia", which apparently is a place in the north east of Spain bordering France on the mediterranean which isn't all that far from Croatia I guess so it could be right, but I'm really not sure. Although why someone would move from a place like this is beyond me:

http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=...num=1&ct=title

there's a map to uhler if anyone wants to visit.

Or maybe my parents are both mutts, and their parents are mutts.

My Dad is Scottish and Croatian, with a bit of Polish and Irish as well. His father's family came from Scotland when they moved to the south, but they had an Irish surname. His Mother's family came from Croatia, but she claims to have Polish relatives.

My Mom is a mix of Irish, Native American, and a bunch of other western european ethnicities. Her father is Irish, but his grandmother was full native American, some northwestern tribe. Her mother is a mix of everything. My grandmother's maiden name is British, and her mother's maiden name was Welsh, her grandmother (my great great grandmother) was French.

My mom was told by her uncle on her mother's side that he traced their family history to horse thieves. So she claims she's part spanish because of that, and she also looks kind of spanish. Even if she's completely wrong, my scottish grandfather's surname (and my surname really) is a black irish surname (it actually means dark in Gaelic) so a very long time ago those people came from the area of spain.

Witness protection program.

you are right it is ridiculous, but it is fun to think about your ancestry, where you came from.

Funny thing is though is that people always think I'm of Germanic or Norwegian descent. Who knows, maybe my foremothers from the British Isles were raped and impregnated by Vikings.