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Since my mom is a freckled redhead, we know there must be some irish on that side and on dad's side we have english and german. Deb


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Carriefaith Enthusiast

Scottish, Irish, English, and Norwegian.

Canadian Karen Community Regular

Irish, Irish on Dad's side.

Irish, French on Mom's side.

(some Scottish and English thrown in there further back....)

Karen

Rachel--24 Collaborator

Italian/Spanish on Mom's side

Mexican on Dads side

i canary Rookie

Irish, English, Welsh, Dutch, German, Polish, and American Indian

Guest nini

Irish, Scottish, French Canadian, even a little Polynesian...

VegasCeliacBuckeye Collaborator

Scottish, Irish, English, German


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Scottish, Irish and German on other side.

Monica

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Mom was 100% Swedish, some of which had some German heritage from back in the early 1800's. My Dad didn't know his ethnic background. He had ruddy olive skin and black hair. We figure most likely Native American, but maybe Italian, maybe Spanish. Or a mix of a few things? I've always been curious, so I'm going to get my genetics done someday and find out.

Nancy

frenchiemama Collaborator
Scottish, Irish, English, German

Hey broncobux, we match! :D

Nadtorious Rookie

100% German.

tiredofdoctors Enthusiast

I'm German and English on paternal side, {English & Irish} and German on maternal side.

celiac3270 Collaborator

Mother's side: Swedish, Swiss

Father's side: Irish, English, Scottish.

jkmunchkin Rising Star

German and Russian.

stef-the-kicking-cuty Enthusiast
German all the way.

Me too. I married an American and live in the states now.

Irish, Irish on Dad's side.

Irish, French on Mom's side.

(some Scottish and English thrown in there further back....)

Karen

Hi Karen,

nice pic. Now I finally get to SEE you :P

Hugs, Stef

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Hi everyone!

I'm just curious about the nationalities of everyone to see how many of you fit the "Northern European" classic, aspect of Celiac Disease, and how many of you are something completely different. I'm wondering because I am Polish and German and a lot of doctors in the begining, wrote off testing for Celiac just because of my background.......

Thanks! :D

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FIRST OF ALL I SEEM TO BE DOING SOMETHING WRONG WHEN TRYING TO REPLY TO SOMETHING ON HERE. HELP.

IRISH AND SCOTTISH HERE

stef-the-kicking-cuty Enthusiast

That's because you forgot the square bracket at the end.

MACE Rookie
That's because you forgot the square bracket at the end.

I DO NOT UNDERSTAND??

Cams304 Newbie
Hi everyone!

I'm just curious about the nationalities of everyone to see how many of you fit the "Northern European" classic, aspect of Celiac Disease, and how many of you are something completely different. I'm wondering because I am Polish and German and a lot of doctors in the begining, wrote off testing for Celiac just because of my background.......

Thanks! :D

Irish and English on my mother's side, Irish and Scottish on my father's side

Canadian Karen Community Regular
Me too. I married an American and live in the states now.

Hi Karen,

nice pic. Now I finally get to SEE you :P

Hugs, Stef

Hey Stef!

Yep, I bit the bullet and posted a pic finally! I started the year by coming out of my shell!!!

Karen

stef-the-kicking-cuty Enthusiast

Hi Mace,

when you wanted to quote at the end of the text where the HTML code closes the whole thing there should be this:

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yorkshire lass Newbie

English all the way- as far as i know

Guest cainepole

Scots, Dutch, Irish, and Cherokee

And to Mace, at the end of each meesage you have quote and reply" you need to go to the top of the page and hit add reply if you do not want to see the other persons message on top of yours. This message written using add reply my next will be using reply" :)

English all the way- as far as i know

see what I mean mace? :)

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THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THE INFORMATION <_<

Silver-naki Rookie

Family origin...... Hmmmmm, let's see....... :D

Native American Indian, Choctaw/Cherokee, French-Canadian/Flathead

Norweigan

Melungeon

Black Dutch

German

English

{and whatever else was in the "kettle!"}

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