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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;kirispupis, post: 8254493, member: 118780&quot;]I&#039;ve never bothered to do the blood test thing, but I did spend some time creating a family tree. My paternal grandmother&#039;s paternal grandparents were born in Lvov, in modern day Ukraine. That being said, our family is Jewish, and historically they lived separately from the local population.</p><p><br /></p><p>Nevertheless, I guess I can say that I&#039;m 1/16th Ukrainian. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" /> Of course, by that analogy I&#039;m also:</p><p><br /></p><p>1/8th Austrian</p><p>1/4th Luxembourgish (whose passport I carry)</p><p>1/8th English</p><p>1/8th Turkish</p><p>1/4th Spanish</p><p>1/8th Bulgarian</p><p><br /></p><p>Or, to put it more simply, I&#039;m 100% mutt. In Roman terms, my ancestors were almost entirely barbarians.</p><p><br /></p><p>Genealogy is a lot of fun. One of my great-great-grandfathers from Luxembourg was an inventor. I still have his patents and the diagrams of his inventions, along with old letters. From online I have the ship records when they arrived in the US, along with a newspaper clipping (that none of my family believes) about my great-grandfather being arrested in NYC for selling pornographic postcards.</p><p><br /></p><p>As an aside, a huge percentage of our friends are Ukrainian and Russian. For everyone&#039;s sake I hope this ends soon.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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