Whats a webiste where i can find out what my nationality is by like typing in my familys last name?

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Whats a webiste where i can find out what my nationality is by like typing in my familys last name?

Answer 1

That won't tell you a thing.  Ancestry.Com has origins and meaning of surnames.

Your nationality is only one thing and one thing alone unless you have dual citizenship.

It is where you are a citizen.. I have had ancestors in this country before the Mayflower, at Jamestown, Virginia and among those that were here to greet all the newcomers, Vikings, Spanish, English, French and even St. Brendan.  Still anyone who was naturalized in a federal court today, their nationality is just as American as mine.

Nationality is not the same as ancestral heritage, race or ethnicity.

Your family name will not necessarily tell you your ancestral heritage or race as the same surname can come from more than one origin.  Also, your family name is a very small part of you.  You have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 great grandparents 16, great great grandparents and that total 62.  Of those 62 people most did not have your family name but they are just as much a part of you as your father.

We are made up of DNA.  

Y DNA is passed from father to son only

Mitochondrial DNA is passed from mother to both sons and daughters, but only the daughters pass it on to their children.

However Y & Mitochondrial is a very small part of you.  It is used in genealogy as it go back in a straight line and remains unchanged.

Most of your DNA is autosomal and you get it 50-50 from both parents.  If you get back to your 6xgreat grandparents, barring any duplicates, you are directly descended from 510 individuals.  Of that 510, you have mitochondrial DNA from 8 and if you are a male Y DNA from 8 but you have autosomal from all 510.

Answer 2

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/facts/defa...

is what you asked for, but - if your grandfather moved to Oklahoma and married a Cherokee, and his son your dad did too, you would be 3/4 Cherokee even though your surname was Albanian, Belgian or Chinese. It is only for names found in the USA. If you are an Indian or a Syrian it won't help.

> by like typing . . .

You have to REALLY type your name into the search box. You can't just, like, pretend.

Answer 3

Only AMERICANs are too stupid to not realize what their nationality is......<-- theres your answer.

Answer 4

I don't know, but if I knew your last name I'd hazard a guess.