Where are your ethnic roots from?

[Risottia]

Since you've listed four I'll assume it's about grandparents' birthplaces...

So,
Paderno Dugnano (province of Milano)
Affori (then in the province of Milano, now part of the city)
Milano
Trecella (province of Milano)

Getting back through generations, all the ascendents are within the older borders of the Duchy of Milan - up to the XVI century.

Thats so strange.

I'm part Polish, Scottish, Irish, and Italian, I think thats it. My great grandma was actually born in Poland.

"Pure-blood" Milanese like me are nowadays rarer than panda bears. Statistics say that less than 12% of today's Milanese have all grandparents hailing from the Lombardy region.

I'm basically the incarnation of Umberto Bossi's wet dreams about "Lombard racial purity", only that it turned into a nightmare for him because I FUCKING HATE LEGA NORD and because my fiancee is half Senese, one-quarter Roman, and the last quarter spread around more than half of the Italian regions (and she's also a soulless redhead). Also, she's even got some Jewish and Hungarian blood

[Ardchoille]

Fourth generation Australian, with Scots and Welsh before that.

And the skeleton in the cupboard, my English grandmother. Grandfather was a pushover for a well-turned ankle.

[West Failure]

Forest of Dean, Wye Valley, Wales on my mothers side. Her mother was raised by family in a town in Illinois because the family was so large that her and her brothers were sent over to the US alone as small children. Also have some relatives in Tasmania, probably called Cowmeadow, who got sent there for highway robbery involving the theft of a hat. My dad's side was mainly Winterbourne area of Dorset and Bristol (though his mother was born out of wedlock and we have no idea about her father or his origins).

[Risottia]

Also have some relatives in Tasmania, probably called Cowmeadow, who got sent there for highway robbery involving the theft of a hat.

They stole a HAT? Feh, the British law has been too soft on them.

[King Koopa I]

Nagasaki, Japan and Tange, Germany.

[West Failure]

Also have some relatives in Tasmania, probably called Cowmeadow, who got sent there for highway robbery involving the theft of a hat.

They stole a HAT? Feh, the British law has been too soft on them.

An old woman from that branch of the family was sent to prison for stealing vegetables from a field because she was starving. Penalties for property crimes were incredibly harsh in the UK at that time.

[Meowfoundland]

They stole a HAT? Feh, the British law has been too soft on them.

An old woman from that branch of the family was sent to prison for stealing vegetables from a field because she was starving. Penalties for property crimes were incredibly harsh in the UK at that time.

Definitely. My distant ancestor was transported for stealing a donkey because he was Irish and was desperate.

[Saint Jade IV]

My family pretty much comes from Germany. Except for one Scottish grandparent.

[Pope Joan]

Ulster Scots with a bit of Welsh.

[Ha Shi Ma]

My father's ancestry is Chinese-Korean.
My mother's ancestry is Russian-Mongolian.

[Lunatic Goofballs]

I'm half Puerto Rican, half European mix(mostly Scottish) and all sexy.

[Carmadin]

I be Ukie

[Pribram]

Both parents are Czechs.

[Birkinghamia]

I'm mostly German, but I'm also Scandinavian and a little English.

My Dad's side of the family is nearly purely German. My Mom's side is mostly German, with other European roots.

[Kazomal]

3rd generation born in the USA, still of 100% Greek background. Although, I'm sure if you go back far enough, you'd find some Turkish/other Mediterranean or East European blood, and of course if you go back far enough, the same apes as the rest of you, and far enough back, that first fish to walk on land, etc.

[Volnotova]

Germanic
Jewish
African

[Disserbia]

I'm pretty much 100% Serbian but there are some Muslims in my family and I don't want to start a shit storm in your thread by calling them the wrong thing.

[Hedmark]

At least 50% of my heritage is Polish.

French is the second largest, at like 5% or something. Then there is Irish, Scottish Welsh, Italian, Congo (Not sure what the term is for someone from Congo.). Then there is speculation from Germany and Sweden.

And yes, I am from everywhere around Britain, but not British.

[Cill Charthaigh]

Totally Irish (County Donegal) on my dad's side. English-American on my mom's side.

My mom's family has been involved in virtually every American era and conflict. They came here in Jamestown around 1608 or 1609. Before that, we had lots of English.

[Bengera]

Ethnically, one generation Jamaican.

But really African who was taken from my homeland.

[New Heathera]

German (Hamburg), Italy (unknown city/region), Luxembourg.

[Canadian Davsland]

Scottish on my mom's side and Norwegian on my dad's side.

[Vostria]

English on my dads side (Northern English with some Irish and Scottish mixed in) and on my mothers side both Polish and Ukrainian!!

[Katganistan]

Yeah, so anyone giving me crap about my ancestors owning slaves get a kick in the ass.

Dammit.

The worst part about this exchange is that I had ancestors that not only were of the slave-owning generation, but were actual plantation-owners.

One of them wrote a letter explaining why she wasn't racist in doing so, actually. It proved she wasn't that, at least.

Though, in thinking about it, how do you know your ancestors didn't own slaves in their areas before coming over?

Unlike everyone and their brother who lays claim to nobility in their family line, we've always been poor but honest country folk. So... most likely someone else's slave!

[Beringovia]

Primarily Sweden and Germany