Your origins

[Jethro83]

2/5 Celtic (Irish background from my mother's side, Scottish background from my father's side)

1/5 Scandinavian (Danish background from my mother's side)

1/5 German (from my father's side)

1/5 Spanish (from my mother's side)

[Dinner]

4/8 Scottish
3/8 English
1/8 French-Candian

[The Vagabond]

100% Russkie.

[Method]

some scottish, french if you go back far enough (quebec-ish, let's say?) and...._finnish

there's got to be more that i don't know about though.

[Carver]

I'm 50% Mimbari, 25% Shadow and 25% Finno-Ugric.

[orange]

What is Shadow? Is Mimbari an African tribe?

[Felch]

25% French, 25% Irish, 12.5% German, 12.5% English, and 25% unknown. My grandmother is of unknown ancestry.

I claimed French and Celtic ancestry, since those were the two biggest. However, I can't stand the tendency of Americans (and I guess Australians, Canadians and others) who claim to be Irish just because they've eaten a baked potato once. So mostly I just claim to be French.

[Dr Strangelove]

The English are Celts. I've explained this so many times that I'm not going to try again.

I'm sure that the Finns and Hungarians are a mixture of orientals and indigenous caucasian peoples. The indigenous peoples undoubtedly outnumbered their oriental conquerers and now their genes predominate even if they're speaking a language derived from that of their former masters.

From an old "Firesign Theater" album:

UFO entertainer: "Where are you from soldier?"

Soldier: "Nairobi ma'm. Ain't we all?"

[The Vagabond]

Pardon my ignorance. But is Celtic ancestry = Irish ancestry?

[Lord Merciless]

Originally posted by Dr Strangelove
The English are Celts. I've explained this so many times that I'm not going to try again.

Because you are wrong. The Celts almost died off in that great plague along with their King Arthur. Today's English were the Anglo-Saxon invaders of back then.

But if you say Scots are Celtic, then I won't dispute with you.

[Dr Strangelove]

Originally posted by The Vagabond
Pardon my ignorance. But is Celtic ancestry = Irish ancestry?

Strictly speaking Celtic = Irish, Scotch, Welsh, Briton, and Gaul.

[Felch]

Originally posted by The Vagabond
Pardon my ignorance. But is Celtic ancestry = Irish ancestry?

Celts were once found throughout most of Europe, from the British isles, to Greece, to Iberia, but now the only places people claim to be Celtic or Gaelic are Ireland, Wales, Scotland, England (as Doc said), France (Breton mostly), and assorted isolated communities, such as Galacia (IIRC) in northern Iberia. But yeah, mostly it means Irish.

[The Vagabond]

Originally posted by Lord Merciless


Because you are wrong. The Celts almost died off in that great plague along with their King Arthur. Today's English were the Anglo-Saxon invaders of back then.

But if you say Scots are Celtic, then I won't dispute with you.

LOL. This means the English are not native Britons.

[The Vagabond]

Well, if "Celtic" is so wide a notion, then it's not wise to define your ancestry as Celtic. You should be more specific.

[Felch]

It's not very wide. The Celtic groups are just organized into different nations and intermingled with conquerers differently.