[LibKill]

They may well have been their predecessors.

Thanks a lot. Now I don't want to live! :)

[skraeling]

It's my understanding the city of Paris was named after the Celtic Parisi tribe, if not directly then indirectly. That's a pretty strong link, and suggests that most of todays Americans, having common Celtic roots, are related to the French. {Sigh}. So are most of the "new Americans" coming over the southern border, via their Spanish Celtic links.

This site has more information: Parisi details.

[Cronos]

If you're English, you will have an eclectic mixture of Gaullish, GErmanic, Viking blood with perhaps a bit or pre-celtic/Jewish/Slavic blood as well.

However, since the idea of nation states only really came abotu at the end of the Middle ages -- say 1450 (I think many English scholars consider the death of Richard III to mark the end of the middle ages in England and I'd agree with them), there were no French or Englsih or Germans or whatever until then.