I think it’s something like this:
31% English
19% German
18% Hungarian
13% Polish
4% Indian
1% Egyptian
<1% American Indian (Related to Pocahontas)
14% Other
I'm Irish and English, with a little German sprinkled in there somewhere. My mom has traced our family back to 1600s England and a very good lead on the Irish that is just unconfirmed but she is certain of it. She has about 20k names in her database, pretty amazing.
According to my sister's test we're about half eastern European, half western European (Germany/UK), and the earliest ancestor we can name was a Quaker man coming to the US in the early 1700s.
From my dad's side, I'm mostly German with a little bit of French and Lithuanian. From my mom's side, I'm mostly English with a little bit of Irish. I'm trying to learn the languages of my heritage, but I've only got English and a little bit of French so far.
Sometimes, when someone is bugging me, I'll jokingly threaten them by saying that I'm half Irish, half French, half German, and the rest of me is Elvish, so they don't want to mes with me!
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like all Americans, i am a direct descendent of George washington
My last name is kinda close to royalty (*cough cough* Hitler *cough cough*) and I’m part German (*hacking cough*) but I’m All for people of Jewish descent (Whew)