Who among us is not of mixed heritage? I know I am.

[SouthernLiberal]

44. On my mon's side.... pretty much all Irish

Unless, of course, there might be a little English in there, or possible a bit of Spanish, or maybe someone else who went tromping through Ireland.

On the other side... well, there it gets complicated. I was told, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh. I've got an Ancestry account, and from what I can find the Irish, one ancestor from Scotland I haven't been able to track back any further. But I found a lot of English... going back and back and back (with as much confidence as you can on Ancestry, basically, not much, but it's fun). But following the hints back far enough on the English side, I got to Vikings!

Anyway... in the midst of all of this.. people mostly from the British Isles moving to NY and NJ, and mixing genes willy-nilly, I found that one of my great great grandfathers apparently married a woman from South Carolina. Again, I can find nothing about her with any reasonable degree of certainty, but of the Jennie Jackson's (that's her name) in the 1870 census still living with their parents... well all the ones I could find were black. Now this is probably not true. Every member of my family that I ever knew was northern European pale, with typically Irish looks, and I did find a couple of young married women who are listed as white, and it's possible that Great Great Grandpa married a widow, I can't rule it out.