Almost completely Chinese (I think one of my great-gandparents was Burmese) despite having been in a very multi-ethnic country for five generations. We're an insular bunch, I guess.

Scottish, English and Irish, in the main. I know that way back in the deep recesses of my family there are traces of Swedish and Mexican, but I'm unsure as to how they fit in to the bigger picture.

I'm from Central Europe.

Which means: Pick any Indo-European ethnicity, and I can almost guarantee you I have at least one ancestor from there. Also, very likely some kind of Turkish ancestry as well, and very likely some Mongol ones (they did run over this place a few times, [censored] and pillaging).

Both my grandparents on my fathers side are Polish and immigrated during WWII. On my mothers side my grandmother is primarily French but I have German relatives as well. Not sure about my grandfather though, I've never met any of his relatives beyond his brothers and I've never talked about his ancestry.

Austrian and Welsh.

So basically I say a lot of "No, not part of England... it's BY England!" and "No... not Australia, Austria. Little country south of Germany... used to be kind of a big deal."

i wondered about that, because of your username. where did you get that from then? thought it was your last name, and sheridan is irish isn't it?

funny how many of you are of irish ancestry though. i guess it's because most leave ireland and settle somewhere else?

i'm all norwegian, but i've got green eyes and my grandmother had brown so not sure where that comes from

Everyone in modern day (Europe? and) Asia are supposedly decendants of Genghis Khan.

As far as I'm aware I'm Scottish with thin ties to Ireland from my fathers side, his great, great grandad was from there and moved to Scotland during the potato famine IIRC, their name was McFern and changed to just Fern to avoid any hostilities that may occur from being Irish.
I've always been interested in tracing my ancestry but never had much luck on the internet besides starting it myself from what I know of my grans and papas

The green-eye variants of the OCA2 gene (chromosome 15q11.2-q12) like Arg419Gln, basically producing just small amounts of yellow-brownish eumelanine in the iris, need to occur in both chromosomes (or alternatively one of the genes needs to be non-functional for some reason), the one you got from your father and the one from your mother. There are other conditions as well, which make that occurence even more unlikely (people with those variants on both genes can also produce hazel eyes and in rare cases two different eye colours, "rainbow" eyes and even yellow eyes). So you just got the "right" kind of random set of possibilities from your parents.

Redguard, but I hail from Orsinium. My mother was a redguard, and my father was an orc.

Not even close, though the guy still left quite the legacy. I'm not sure about any exact numbers, I think I once heard on NGC that about two thirds of the modern Mongol population is descended from him. According to http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/08/1-in-200-men-direct-descendants-of-genghis-khan/ about 10% of the people in http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b1/Genghis_khan_empire_at_his_death.pngare direct descendants of Djengiz.

Interesting read, though I did lose myself somewhere around the diagram

- What I said wasn't anything I based as fact though, 'supposedely' being the key word for that, I was aware that during his conquest he would have his way with many of the women in each country/tribe so he would have a rather large bloodline.

I am half Afrikaner/Boer from my dad. His family came to South Africa to France to escape Catholic persecution of French Protestants in the late 17th century. After the Boer wars, my ancestors fled to Zimbabwe, where they stayed (until Mugabe's land reforms). I am half British as well from my mum. Her family came to Zimbabwe in the 1930s.

Well, my ancestors have largely been norwegians as far back as we can trace with a few exceptions, namely my great-grandmother on my motherside who was swedish and on my fatherside we have some ancestry from Finland, though I am unsure how far back.

Dutch, Scottish, English, Maori.
In that order.

I'm from England, but in terms of ancestry I'm mostly Scottish, with English being the next major component. Other bits thrown into the mix are a couple of branches of the family from the US, one from Ireland and some Norwegian ancestry from way back. What that means in real life is that I'm so pale that my skin is flayed off instantly if I venture out into anything brighter than complete darkness.

Persian and Turkish ancestry. But I was born and raised in California. Been living in the middle east (Dubai, UAE) for the past 8 years though.

Welsh, Irish and English. Or should that be Valleys, Irish and Yokel?

African American, Irish, Cherokee.

I'd say I am 80/5/15.

Directly? A mix of Irish and Hungarian. Not really a fascinating heritage.

yeah, but where did my grandmother get her brown eyes from

You'd have to ask her mother. A Spanish sailor, maybe?

That's hardly likely seeing as he didn't live that long ago, and considering the enormous populations of Asia. As for Europe it seems totally unlikely since people have been living in parts of Europe WAY before Genghis was born, in areas his hordes never reached. And if this is true, then they would be descendants of Mongolians, not the man himself...goodness such a task would be...exhausting for one man.
Anyway, Magyars are not directly descended from Mongolians, but are a separate (if somewhat similar) people, who came from what historians guess is somewhere Southern-Siberia-ish, from the East side of the Ural mountain range. Of course that is one theory among others; tracing the history of a primarily nomadic people, with no surviving written history of themselves before they arrived in Europe is a daunting task.

Sheridan is my first name. But yeah, it's irish and it means "seeker."

I'm not entirely sure why my parents gave me that name. The only obvious reason is that all of my older siblings have a first name that starts with the letter "S" and they wanted to give me one as well.

Anyway, I do like it, if only for its uniqueness.

Anglo-Scot with some Romany a few generations back.

Finnish, Ingrian (aka. Inkeri) and Swedish. My great-great-grandmother was Ingrian and my great-great-great-great.........
... great-great-grandfather was Swedish.