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To me, you're from where your accent is from. Which is not always completely straightforward - my oldest kid (ok adult) I'd say was mainly from middleclass London, the younger ones from middleclass Yorkshire.
I can’t quite imagine what it’d be like to not know anything about your ancestry.
Different people have different levels of interest. My mother has no interest whatsoever in anything like that, beyond what she knows about her immediate family, cousins etc. But my father showed a bit of interest when contacted by my 4th cousin who must be a descendent of one of his cousins that he used to go sledging in the snow with as kids.
I find it quite interesting how even when you think you come from *a* place and from a hard graft just get on with it working class family, how the actual family comes from all over the place and crosses the entire spectrum of wealth from living in a poorhouse/workhouse up to lords of the realm but that you're a descendent of the "disowned" bit.
Only found one murderer in the family so far, but at least the family's claim to fame is that we've got a street corner in Wiltshire named after us (and it's on at least 1 OS map) 😉
My accent is very English. perhaps thats why I'm a Brit 😉
My accent is very English.
It’s because you live in Edinburgh. They all speak like that over there.
Weirdos.
Descendant of emigrants from the Great Rift Valley. Semi-independent self-conscious bioorganism. U.K. citizen. Spanish resident. Occasional grump. Atheist.
Occasional?
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It's all a bit weird isn't it, apart from a French interloper c1800 I'm as English as English be as far as records go back yet my nearest and dearest relatives (my kids) have strong Scottish ancestry.
I suppose I'm an Earthling, but you can never be sure can you?
At the Tour of Flanders sportive a few years ago I had to stop at a first aid station with an injury. After he fixed me up the medic chap asked if I was stopping or carrying on. When I said I was getting back on the bike he said to me "You are a proper Flandrian".
Best compliment I've ever had, and therefore I now consider myself to be part Belgian. And to be fair, each springtime my blood is at least 50% Chimay.
Hopefully it qualifies me for a passport post-Brexit.
Spartacus
Consider myself English. Dad is English, mum is from Northern Ireland. Dad’s dad was Welsh, mums dad was Republic of Ireland.
My wife is English, but her dad is from Tanzania with Indian parents. Her mother is English with Irish grandparents.
So our kids are part English, part Irish, part Tanzanian and part Indian, with a little bit of Welsh thrown in.
Being from Merseyside most of the people I knew were from a Celtic background. Strangely Welsh is the smallest part of me but it’s the place where I feel most at home. Even though I live in middle England and work in London.