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Ciarán12 wrote:Just Irish. It would be cool if I found out I had some ancestry from somewhere else, but I know that all the members of my family for the last 4 or 5 generations were Irish, and the further back you go, the less likely it is that they came from anywhere else.
linguoboy wrote:I don't know about that. The historical record shows that a lot of foreigners came to settle in Ireland over the years. Both my partner and one of my friends are descended from German Protestants resettled from the Palatinate to Munster (Tipperary, in my partner's case) in the wake of the Cromwellian conquest as part of an attempt to wean the locals off of their vile Papist ways. (Instead, my partner's family ended up Catholic.)
linguoboy wrote:Before that, there were Vikings and Normans and the English of the Pale.
linguoboy wrote:One of the traditional septs of Munster is even supposed to have originated in what is now Belgium!
Ciarán12 wrote:Hmm, that does seem odd. I wonder how they know what their heritage is (past "coming from Ireland"), do they have German names in the family? I don't have any exotic names in mine, and I'm not sure how far back I can trace my roots. Obviously, it's not impossible that I'm, say, part Hungarian or something, but everything I can find out about my family leads me to believe it's a typical Irish family.
Ciarán12 wrote:linguoboy wrote:Before that, there were Vikings and Normans and the English of the Pale.
Having historically settled in Ireland more or less en masse, I would lump those into the genetic stew called "Irish".
Ciarán12 wrote:linguoboy wrote:One of the traditional septs of Munster is even supposed to have originated in what is now Belgium!
Now that's surprising! Although, there are plenty of "Flemming"s in Ireland, a second name descriptive of someone from Flanders.
linguoboy wrote:Both my partner and one of my friends are descended from German Protestants resettled from the Palatinate to Munster (Tipperary, in my partner's case) in the wake of the Cromwellian conquest as part of an attempt to wean the locals off of their vile Papist ways.
Vertigo wrote:I'm Half-English (with a smattering of Welsh and Edinburgh/Lowland Scots) on my mother's side, and half-Greek (Athenian) on my father's.
linguoboy wrote:What are the other respective halves?
nimekirjast999 wrote:globetrottersara wrote:I think I'm 100% Italian. This being said, Italians are such a big mix
Mhh..No. The main haplogroups in Italy are three and their percentages are allocated alongside a peninsular south-north gradient which seems to be pretty regular. That said, the most advanced studies on genetic variations show the existence of a real Italian cluster within Europe. Italians (even the Italian speakers from Ticino) are quite distinguished from the rest of the Europeans: only Finns are more. Italian ancestry is genetically pretty predictable within Europe.
Luke wrote:My mum's dad was from the Catalan speaking side of Huesca (for those who don't know that's right below the Pyrenees).
My mum's mum was from right the other side of the mountains in France (or the Occitania, depending of how you look at it). They both had the same rare surname, incidentally.
Saim wrote:Luke wrote:My mum's dad was from the Catalan speaking side of Huesca (for those who don't know that's right below the Pyrenees).
Tens ascendència catalana (=del domini etnolingüístic català, no de la Communitat Autònoma Catalana o CAC)? Primera notícia, eh!
Saim wrote:My mum's mum was from right the other side of the mountains in France (or the Occitania, depending of how you look at it). They both had the same rare surname, incidentally.
I gascona també? Representes totes dues nacionalitats històriques de la CAC.
Saim wrote:Por cierto, eres andaluz no? Pero has vivido en Aragón también? (Perdona la ignorancia, es que no me acuerdo ).
Saim wrote:Interesante esta historia. Por cierto, estás empadronado ahí? Votas? Eres más de Izquierda Unida o de la Chunta? O quién sabe, tal vez seas del PP.
Saim wrote:Antimás, ya fablas a luenga? O no mica?
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