Posted on 09/29/2013 10:57:42 AM PDT by Rusty0604
Census data shows heritage of 317 million modern Americans Clusters show where immigrants from different nations chose to settle Largest ancestry grouping in the nation are of German descent with almost 50 million people
African American or Black is the second largest grouping with just over 40 million people Almost 20 million people claim to have 'American' ancestry for political reasons and because they are unsure of their family's genealogy
49,206,934 Germans
By far the largest ancestral group, stretching from coast to coast across 21st century America is German, with 49,206,934 people. The peak immigration for Germans was in the mid-19th century as thousands were driven from their homes by unemployment and unrest.
41,284,752 Black or African Americans The census map also identifies, Black or African-American as a term for citizens of the United States who have ancestry in Sub-Saharan Africa.The majority of African Americans are descended from slaves
35,523,082 Irish Another group who joined the great story of the United States were the Irish and the great famine of the 1840s sparked mass migration from Ireland.
31,789,483 Mexican And from 1990 to 2000, the number of people who claimed Mexican ancestry almost doubled in size to 31,789,483 people.
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a lot of the French and German names were anglicized out of recognition.
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and Dutch names after 1664 when the English took over the Dutch colony of New Netherland without firing a shot and changed the name to New York..
We’ve been here a looooong time - our first arrival was in 1614 to Jamestown aboard the ship Treasurer. The family was here, both patrilineal and matrilineal, before the Revolution. We’ve got Kings and Rutledges (yep) and Crocketts (yep), Livingstons (yep) and Sherwoods. Settled Virginia, Pennsylvania, Tennessee and Connecticut. Personally, if I only counted my father’s line back, I’d be Scots Irish (among the first to arrive), but there’s English, Cherokee, Irish, German and French in there. We have absolutely no fragments of tradition from any of those lines. So when my daughter’s 4th grade teacher did a project on heritage, we said American. This confused her because “everyone comes from somewhere else”. I explained that 400 years and 14 generations of living in one country was plenty to establish one’s heritage. She took a look at our family tree, filled with Signers and Pioneers and Veterans and allowed as how we made a good case.
Why they changed it, I can't say...People just liked it better that way.
Fascinating information...but you do know that Pocahontas married John Rolfe, not John Smith, don’t you?
There were a lot of “Mexicans”, especially in the Southwest, for a long time. I think it’s interesting that the number doubled between 1990 and 2000. Those are (not all, but many) the modern day Mexicans can came for the benefits and to “take their land back”.
Yeah.
But there is strong, though circumstantial, evidence that Pocahontas and John Smith had two children prior to her marriage to Rolfe.
Our family tradition is that we are descended from their son Peregrine.
Can’t prove it from the official records though. The Crown could have easily executed Smith for this illicit union.
(Just kidding....my background is similarly split).
Since when? I don't mean the defiant "Since when?" meaning "Sez who?" just "When did this actually happen?" I'm pretty sure that in 1940 plenty of Americans still thought of England as their mother country.
Even now, I don't see anything from French or German or Spanish or Chinese TV having the appeal over here of Downton Abbey and other British television series over here even among people without a drop of English blood. I don't see many people linking to articles in other foreign papers, either.
I do have to admit, though, the general decline of British TV and the fact that they aren't fighting Hitler now tends to make our affinity with Britain weaker than it once was.
http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mjr6387&id=I356162
http://steve.dow.net/roots2.htm
http://www.familycentral.net/index/family.cfm?ref1=6128:1322&ref2=6128:1325
Do you or any of your relatives have red hair?
The UK isn’t what it was in 1940, what with the huge mostly muslim immigration. I have a friend from London (late 30’s) and she says when she goes back home to visit it isn’t the same country she grew up in.
Interesting! My ancestors, the Morrisons, also followed the same pattern as yours....arrived in the 1700’s from the Hebrides in Scotland, and settled in Concord, North Carolina. My grandfather, Wm. S. Morrison came from Concord to California in the early 1930’s. Many of my relatives still live in Mecklenburg and Cabarrus counties.
Certainly is. When I was doing some research, I found that my parents ancestors certainly knew each other way back in Colonial Virginia. I have to laugh that almost 400 years ago, they never would have conceived a Nation this large and Grand. (and that their descendants shall meet in Arizona and marry)
Nope, they aren’t, and I consider myself a “Native American”. I have no ties with any other Country, neither did my ancestors. They stayed here, fought in the Revolutionary War, the Battle of New Orleans, the Civil War.... and a couple others.
I do (or did). My mother called it strawberry blonde, but it was really a light red. (It’s golden-grey now.) My sister has beautiful chesnut/auburn hair.
I check the genealogy to make sure I wasn’t related (directly) to Obama.
I claim American ancestry because that’s what I have, and that’s what I am.
My Dutch Ancestors did that after a couple generations here. First lived in New Amsterdam.
My kid was given that project last year. “What culture do you celebrate”? “What culture are you from”? She asked me what the heck to put down. I said, “American”. The project was written by the teacher as if there were no such things as Americans or un-hyphenated Americans.
Inaccurate. A popular myth, but not true. White population of the South is largely English in origin.
The county of US with highest percentage of Scot-Irish ancestry claims 7.2%.
http://www.valpo.edu/geomet/pics/geo200/pct_scots_irish.pdf
I will agree that the Scots-Irish were culturally influential to a wildly disproportionate degree, especially in the South and on the frontier. Probably because their culture was peculiarly suited to a frontier warrior lifestyle.
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