American Mutt?
 

The latest political thread got me to thinking.

Lots of us are mutts. No insult implied!:D

My father was a Naturalized citizen. He was from Russia originally.

My maternal grandmother was also from Russia, my mom born in NY.

So, I am a Russian American. Not much variety here but some of you may be so much more!:)

So many of us have varied heritage.

What are you? Did you family come over on the Mayflower?

this monkey's a mutt. :D proud of it. i consider myself a true blue american.

all 4 of my grandparent's came to the usa from other countries.

i was born on a millitary base in another county.

lil'monkey has honest to goodness gypsy blood in her. yup...she has ancestors that lived inthe gypsy caravans.

i bet there aren't too many in the world these days that don't have atleast a drop of another nationality.

i hate those "check one box" nationality choices. dis mutt needs to check a few. :wink:

I looked into one of my branches on my family tree -- my dad's mother's branch. Her grandfather (my great great grandfather) came from Germany arround 1840.
I looked into my name (maiden name) after I heard from TV that a guy by the same name is one of the 'big guys' at Anhauser Busch in Germany (& the same 1st name as my bro.) so I just got interested. The meaning of the name is a miller ("works at a mill" & barley a beer ingredient). The suffix MAN was maybe added to that(maybe it means "man who is a miller"??). They added MAN or SON to lots of names or words, for instance maybe JOHNSON means John's Son.
My mother's mom (or was it her mom's mom?) came from Hungary.

Well, let's see...

My mother's mother was from Portugal. Her father was from Ireland.

My father's mother was part Native American Indian, and part Scottish.

My father's father's family was Welsh.


All four of my husband's grandparents were from Russia, although very different parts.

Yup, I'm a mutt, too.

lets see...........

dad's side.......english/ plymouth rock.......... and norweigin.......vikings????
moms side......polish and jewish maybe?

My family never seemed o talk about family history. Now everyones either dead or really old and dont remember!!!

Im a mutt.....sometimes a cranky biting little dog .......sometimes a big lazy cuddly one!!!!:p

my children have a very mixed muttcestry :D

my side has Welsh, Portughese(Madeira), Dutch, Prussian and English with a hint of huguenot French melded together into South African.........

Hubby's side we dont have all the links on but we do know there is European- Jewish in the American-New Yorker mix

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ha got some mutt here
Me- American Indian, French, German, Irish, and Canadian
Hub - German, American Indian, some Polish and some African American

Our two girls all that and a bag of chips :p
PEACE
BMW

My Mom's father was Cherokee Indian (I never got to meet him as he passed before I was born). Her mother was of Irish decent. My Dad's family is of Irish decent, too.

My Mom and both of my sisters have/had jet black hair and olive skin. I either got all my coloring from my Dad or.....well, I won't go there.....but I definitely do not have my Mom's side of the family in my genetics! I do favor my Dad in most ways. I even got the Irish name!! :)

Great thread! I guess the whole point is now that we are here lets slam the doors shut? Of course we can't take in so many people that the boat sinks. I still think that a lot of people redirect their anger and frustrations about their own life onto this issue.

good grief. that is NOT the point of this thread at all. slam the door? i don's see how you got that from THIS thread and please DO NOT drag other threads into this one.

the point is....ALL of ancestors came to the USA, one way or another...unless you are a full blood with not a drop of mix...native american indian. (and where did they come from?) so NO more pointing fingers and name calling..and NO more trying to pick fights.