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re: Are there really more Americans of German ancestry than English ancestry?
Posted on 6/7/17 at 4:21 pm to Y.A. Tittle
Posted on 6/7/17 at 4:21 pm to Y.A. Tittle
It's true, I googled it after reading.
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Posted on 6/7/17 at 4:30 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I'm pretty much full blooded English. Being English is boring. I don't think people claim English heritage as much as others. Someone could be 3/4 English and 1/4 Irish and they will claim the Irish part every time.
Posted on 6/7/17 at 4:37 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Alistair Cooke's classic book America (1972) mentioned how most people presumed a majority of the US was of English ancestry, but "outside the South it's no more than one in four".
Posted on 6/7/17 at 4:39 pm to Rebel
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I'm pretty much full blooded English. Being English is boring. I don't think people claim English heritage as much as others. Someone could be 3/4 English and 1/4 Irish and they will claim the Irish part every time.
This is true.
I'm zero part Irish and proud to be not Irish.
Posted on 6/7/17 at 4:41 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I don't know, but I am from German ancestry. Well, my grandfather's dad's parents came straight from Germany, I have no idea about my mom's mother's grandparents parents or my dad's grandparents parents.. Well, my mom's mother's grandparents were french maybe..
Posted on 6/7/17 at 4:42 pm to Rebel
yup. I for one am proud to be majority English. I'm a mutt though. most my family claim they're German just because of their closest ancestor.
Posted on 6/7/17 at 4:42 pm to Kafka
could be
Posted on 6/7/17 at 4:46 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
Hell, I'm black and have a German surname 
Posted on 6/7/17 at 5:45 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
I'm one of them. God bless the Reich
Posted on 6/7/17 at 5:47 pm to HailHailtoMichigan!
All you have to do is go back six generations and you have 64 direct ancestors.
I am fascinated that most people think they are one thing or another.
Iam also fascinated that people "leaving a legacy" with their kids don't realize that 6 generations down they will only be contributing 1/64th of the DNA to any descendants*.
*except in Alabama of course
I am fascinated that most people think they are one thing or another.
Iam also fascinated that people "leaving a legacy" with their kids don't realize that 6 generations down they will only be contributing 1/64th of the DNA to any descendants*.
*except in Alabama of course
Posted on 6/7/17 at 6:19 pm to gthog61
if you teach your kids about their ancestors, and they do the same, your name WILL live on...
Posted on 6/7/17 at 7:07 pm to Collegedropout
All mine are Cajun, French(direct), and one Spanish. NO English!! My people thought that England was the Devil.
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