Re: OT Ethnotypes WAS Re: FWD [OT but interesting]....

Quoting daniel andreasson <danielandreasson@...>:

> Eamon Graham wrote:
>
> > So even here in Europe we have a pretty decent mix. My best
> > friend is 3/4 Swedish and 1/4 Russian.  I don't know anyone
> > who considers their self "pure."
>
> As usual I come out as the boring guy (cf. poll no. 19).
>
> Mom, dad, granddad on both sides, grandma on both sides
> and their parents were all Swedish. And I'm pretty sure
> that they're all Swedish a couple more generations too.
I dunno.  For an American, I'm pretty boring: not only are
both my mother and father both of Scottish ancestry, they're
both even from the same Clan, the MacNaughtons, although
on my grandmother's side there was a good bit of Scotch-Irish
and English too.

[A neat family fact I just found out a couple weeks ago:
during the Civil War, my great-great-grandfather, Capt.
Thomas D. Wier, was interned in a prisoner of war camp
just a couple miles from where I'm now studying in Chicago.]

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