My Genealogy (can someone please help lol)

Question

overall, i am part english welsh swedish danish finnish slavic french german native american dutch scottish and russian. Could anyone tell me possible other root of my genealogy that i could have because of these roots (for example, i am english, so i know i have saxon roots from before england.)

Answer 1

You could get back to (white) ancestors alive in 1850 in the USA if you spend 100 - 300 hours at it, and you have a library or FHC with census access. You can go back farther than that if you trust the Mormon's data. You can get a DNA test that will tell you, maybe, what tribal groups your DNA markers hint at.

You get into History, too. England was invaded by Celts, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Romans, Vikings, and Normans. So your "English" heritage may not be pure Pict. "Germany" wasn't a country until 1854, (1856?) but it was flat, fertile ground, so a lot of people came through and decided to settle.  "Normans" were Vikings who lived in Normady for a while, so one of your ancestors may have laid his 8th cousin open like a fish without knowing who it was, during the Norman invasion.

No one knows where the Finns came from. Their language is a little like Hungarian, which is a clue, maybe; the Magyars, in turn, came from central Asia.

The history of mankind is the history of tribes taking land by force, inter-breeding with the women they didn't kill, and, 1 - 20 generations later, letting their daughters marry the descendants of men their ancestors didn't kill.

Answer 2

You can trace your genealogy as far back as there are both records that survive AND as far as you are willing to put the effort into them. Anything is POSSIBLE.. ie, if you have traced your ancestry into England.. unless you have documentation, you cannot VERIFY that your heritage is Saxon.

There is a point at which the paper trail will stop, simply because records were not kept.  If that is the era you are mostly concerned with.. then you'll probably want to do DNA testing. That goes back much further.. but it does not include explicit ancestors or countries.  It finds "haplogroups".

For someone to tell you POSSIBLE roots is just us guessing. Using EITHER standard genealogy or DNA tests, you can get the reliable information.  

Answer 3

You've hit pretty much everything except Flemish and Prussian (more specific than simple "German" because they ruled many countries that aren't now part of Germany).

Answer 4

I can't resist the temptation to say this, but...

...and a partridge in a pear tree <LoL>