So I found out I'm 12.5% Kraut!

[HamburgerBoy]

1/4 German, 1/8 Norwegian, 1/8 Swiss, 1/4 Scots-Irish, 1/4 unknown (but likely English and Scandinavian at least to an extent). I'm proud to be a part of the master race. :thumbsup:

 

[Broheim]

I recently sent in a mouth swab to 23andme.com and these were my results:

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In terms of family tree, my understanding based on my parents' knowledge of their respective sides of the family, is that I'm almost entirely Irish with a little bit of German possibly on my mother's side.

I've been wanting to take one of those DNA tests for a while, but i already know what my result is going to be... 100% Scandivian, so it probably wont be as much fun.

 

[Atomic Playboy]

I was adopted at birth. I found out my ancestry was Irish, Scottish and Swedish, the basic makeup being around 25% Swede, 37.5% Irish, 37.5% Scottish, give or take. And, as someone who was adopted, caring about where you came from is ridiculous. As long as you're white, speak the same language as me, and, preferably, are white.

 

[dawp]

my great grandfather was a deserter from the german army during WW1. I have relatives with the last name of Fett and our last name was changed from Priess to Price before my dad was born.

both my parents are from northern WI which has a fairly large german population. several town up there have german names, such as Rhinelander.

 

[Murloc]

I'm half south germanic and half north italic or something like that. Political borders don't say much about ethnicity in Europe.

 

[boochi]

I've always thought I was 50% Norwegian, 50% Irish, my wife signs up for Ancestry.com and we learn that my maternal grandma's mom was german!

Ever since then I've been all like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpBkUY62TtM

!!!!

You are really none of those things. You are African like all the rest of us.

 

[John Connor]

I'm part German from both sides. Part Irish and Polish. I know that my dad's family is mostly from Prussia.

 

[tcG]

Political borders don't say much about ethnicity in Europe.

Yup. A little fact that goes greatly under-appreciated.

 

[Geosurface]

I've been wanting to take one of those DNA tests for a while, but i already know what my result is going to be... 100% Scandivian, so it probably wont be as much fun.

a lot of the genes you'd be shown as having would come up like mine "nonspecific northern European" and you never know, you might find a surprise in there.

If nothing else, it might be interesting to see what your neanderthal % is.

the site also tells you what diseases you have elevated risk for, or reduced risk for.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

100% jap

 

[Broheim]

a lot of the genes you'd be shown as having would come up like mine "nonspecific northern European" and you never know, you might find a surprise in there.

If nothing else, it might be interesting to see what your neanderthal % is.

the site also tells you what diseases you have elevated risk for, or reduced risk for.

I figured as much, maybe there's a tiny bit German in there, but I doubt it. Part of my family on my mother's side lived in a part of Denmark that had been lost to Prussia in the Second Schleswig War (had a great great great Grandfather, or something along those lines, that died at Dybbøl) and lived under German rule in the southern part of Jutland, my Great grandfather was drafted into the German army during WWI but was shot in the arm and given a medical discharge, I'm told he never talked about the shit he saw only that getting shot was the best thing that ever happened to him. After WWI southern Jutland was returned to Denmark so I doubt anybody married a German (too short of a time span to really get "mingling") or so help me god I will piss on their grave

yeah I saw they also screened for potential diseases so I might get it just for that. How quick was the process?

 

[BurnItDwn]

25% of my grandparents were a mix of German and Norwegian (going back 5 generations at least back and forth from one to the other. approx 1/2 and 1/2.)

25% of my grandparents are 100% Norwegian

25% of my grandparents can trace origins back to bricklayers in England

25% of my grandparents can trace back 5+ generations in New England. Original source countries known to include England & to lesser extent Ireland.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

Both my parents are Indian so that makes me 100% cheap as hell.

 

[el-Capitan]

12.5%? Pfffft. I'm 100%!

 

[nephilim2k]

I am half Scottish, half German. Both grandparents were in a POW camp...my scottish grandfather in Germany, my German grandfather at the same place, but a different time as a guard.

 

[Acanthus]

Ancestry.com revealed to me what i already knew, over 97% german.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mtxqlz5bDJY

 

[John Connor]

Du hast! HAHAHAHAH! That's fucking crazy.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

Both my parents are Indian so that makes me 100% cheap as hell.

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