I was just wondering like, as the topic of discussion today appears to be based around human spawn and stuff. I have a weird mix. My great grandmother apparently was Jewish, and born in the Middle East somewhere. My mum's a Welshy with a nose she could hunt with, and my father's Swedish.
It's weird as you get older you start to look for your own identity hidden in your parents. But that's a rather complex conversation. I'll take it up with Dear Dierdrie.
So where are you/relatives from?

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one of my great grandparents was german.
i have a shitload of relatives who live in australia and i guess count as australian now.
i'm from north yorkshire and consider myself english but still feel that i have a lot of welshness inside me.
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i wish i was more interesting ethnically speaking.
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I'm 1/4 German/Polish/Russian Jew.
I'm 1/4 Scottish
I'm 1/4 Irish
I'm 1/8 Dutch
I'm 1/8 English... damn! How dull.
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My Dad is from East Anglia and decends from a long line of Fisherman.
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My girlfriend is Chinese though, so if we ever breed (not something I'm planning) then our children will be spared the boredom I now feel for my heritage!!
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Foreign blood eh, polluting England. Tut.
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My dads parents are from Stockton, My mams parents are also from stockton. I think My mams Mams parents were Irish though. Or something. I'm also related to Scottish Royalty on my Dad's side.
And im related to Captain James Cook...completely irrelevant, but i like to tell people.
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I was born in Australia.
My brother was born in Hong Kong.
I consider myself English. As soon as my passport comes through I will be too.
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It's fine that you do but I just wondered why?
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and a 1/4 elf
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I once pushed my sister down the stairs cos she sprayed polish into my eyes!!
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Then they can represent loads of different countries in football!
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this seems to be going places.
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England
Ireland
Scotland
Germany
Sweden
Estonia
we're probably talking around the year 2025 - who should we go with?
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roi
n. ireland
scotland
england
bermuda
what a prospect
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I am the product of an exiled jewished family (father's side) who escaped from Berlin in 1938 who after 2 years in Paris legged it to the Isle of Man (there's a lot more to this story, obviously). The generation before had been kicked out of St. Petersburg in 1917 (my great-grandfather Anschul gave me his name in posterity, along with some very nice trinkets)
My mothers side is a brew of celtic aristocracy (9th century catholic royals of Ireland and Scotland) whose family went from a mighty river to an almost dried up spring during the first world war - my gran's mum was one of the 40 million who died in the flu epidemic and my gran's dad was the first person in Ireland to die in an automotive accident when his primitive 1918 taxi met with a horse and cart - the coachman was asleep, the horse had been stung by a wasp and a sizeable portion of the cart splintered through the windscreen and subsequently through my great-grandad after which he died of an infection. He'd just survived 2 years in the trenches. So it goes.
My then 9 year old gran subsequently raised her 5 year old sister and her three year old brother. And when we laid her to rest in february this year there were about 250 family members present who either directly or indirectly wouldn't have been there if not for her.
History is marvellous isn't it?
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My Polish cousins' dad (who married my mam's sister) escaped from a concentration camp during WW2, somehow made his way to Britain, and eventually Cardiff although I think he met my aunt in London. They were good friends with Peter O'Toole at one point apparently.
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That's why i live in Leeds, the inbreeding had to stop somewhere!! :)
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the current mrs commandercool grew up 4 miles from where i did...
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the bit about my gran's folks I didn't even know until her funeral this year - extraordinary
the two world wars did a lot to mix the european seed
mrs Anschul's mum was a 3 month old babe in arms when Her mum rowed an overloaded boat of twelve people from estonia to finland after a fairly prosperous couple of years under the Nazis who were about to be expelled by the evil (in their eyes) communists of the soviet union. This was 1941. She went back (mrs Anschul's grandmother that is) to shoot commies and get her farm back in 1943. She was a crazy woman by all accounts.
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It is very interesting, my family are generally very cagey about history and don't like me sniffing around.
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One of my relatives played for Liverpool in the 1930s as well which I think is cool in a childish way
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he sometimes comes over on christmas day.
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once more and i'm taking the tv out of your room.
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It's a cruel world.
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our "henry" vacuum sometimes does similar things.
although we don't use hoover bags so his head cavity is full of dust and spiders which could be to blame.
we have a testing relationship. he gave me an electric shock on the weekend so i kicked him and he fell down the stairs.
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"there's spiders and dust in my head
which is big and smiley and red."
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'Stop smiling!'
'I won't'
'You can but you don't!
I'll smash your red face in with my flailing fists!'
'You suck!'
'I know! I suck and I blow! But you push me around so I'll shock you again! '
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Someone said I should narrate the bible the other day...
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Yes it's the closest our family have got to football stardom...
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surely ther emsut be someone on here with a better footie connection that me bamos and Tomsparks? surely Emile Heskey's Stepdad goes on here or something?
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I bumped into one of their midfielders in a computer games shop a few years back but i've forgotten his name. he was the best player back then. had a mc in his name.
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Quarter Irish through my mums - mum.
Kinda technically jewish as well.
wooooooooooo exciting.
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my dad is all english.
and i was born in germany.
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i'll never forget my uncle crying like a schoolgirl when the rugby team won the grand slam this year.
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my dad's family is 100% scottish. he's really into all his ancestry tracing back and shit, and apparantly he can find family members who were in the infamous campbell slaughtering of the mcdonald clan.
interesting.
most of my family were born in really interesting places, though.
my mum and her sister were born in tripoli in libya. her brother was born in borneo.
my dad and his twin sister were born in malawi, and his brother was born in zimbabwe.
me and my sister were born in south africa and lived in botswana for several years.
i love talking about myself.
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I guess, that means technically I am 100% english. I believe our family trace back as english, although most of them have now moved away to exotic locations, or died, or both.
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it all culminated in a large group going around drinking whiskey, being a bit lairy and hugging anyone and everyone.
we came across a group of lads doing much the same thing, but going the other way.
somehow someone had admitted they were from scotland, so everyone went "SCOTLAND!! YEAAAH!". then somebody else shouted "ENGLAND!! YEAAAH!".
i shouted "WALES!!" only to be pummelled to the floor and sat on by at least 10 fully-grown men.
my top tip for the summer festivals - don't admit you're welsh.
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Parents came to England via Malaysia,Soviet Union, Saudi Arabia and settled in Manchester. I was born in Withington and brought up in Prestwich.
I now living in a shitty bedsit in shadwell. Not that far I suppose from where my uncle came and dissapeared into the English genepool.
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My mum's dad side are Scottish and eventually went to Lancashire, Kent and Canada. The rest of them are now what I call my "Northern" relatives and live in Cheshire/Liverpool/Lancs.
My dad's side are all London, although as my surname is apparently French my mum (amateur genealogist) reckons they're Huguenots. Whatever they are.
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I look Irish: Dark hair with blue eyes, which I never knew was unusual until I left my home town Warrington - a town with a large Irish descendent population - and it was pointed out that really my eyes should be brown.
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But one of my greatfather was from Britain, the other from Normandy and one of my grandmother is from Sarthe ( don't know if you have a name for that ! ).
My other grabdmother was from unknown origin !
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both parents greek and born over there
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I just was.
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