Hi, I started my family research properly on the 27th December 2002..... At that time I thought my genetic makeup would be largely English with some Scottish blood with a little Welsh, Irish and Dutch..... As my research has developed the amount of Scots blood has increased, the Welsh remains about the same as I can't establish where the family came from as they had spent at least 4 generaltions in England before my ancestors emigrated to the Cape with the 1820 Settlers....the Irish turned out to be largely Scots who had been moved across to Ireland....my Dutch blood turned out to have been diluted with French, Swedish, & German....who can say whether there is any Asian or African blood within those boundries....I simply don't know; to date I haven't found anything to indicate that this may be the case. As some of my Dutch and French Ancestors appeared at the Cape in the early years following colonisation there is a pretty good chance of their being the inclusion of other bloodlines. It fascinated me when I read that in about 1750 there were only about 7,500 immigrants into the Cape (this included the slaves) which did give us a very small gene pool; compare that with the 4,000,000 (approx). in the U.K.... One of these days I will get around to having my DNA tested....My brother has offered to allow me to have his DNA tested as well to establish the male markers. All quite, qute fascinating. Best wishes, Tombi Peck + -----Original Message----- From: vince otto <jusotto@sympatico.ca> To: south-africa@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, 22 Nov 2011 0:06 Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Ethnic Percentages i All, I thought maybe I should add my two cents . . . afterall I started this thing ong ago.:-) I believe people living in "new" countries such as; South Africa, anada, Australia or the USA are often asked what their ethnicity is. Germans, apanese or any of the old world countries have been around for more than a 1000 ears so they have had time to develop an ethnic identity. Some years ago I uggested that if you were interested in your ethnic make-up as was famously iscussed by Heese about the Afrikaner Volk, then trace your descendants back 10 enerations. At the 10th generation point everyone of us has 1024 ancestors. ost of us will experience genetic loss where the same people will appear more han once in your list due to the small gene pool that existed at the Cape and ack mobility, double count them anyway. Each one of the those ancestors roughly epresent .1% of your genetic make-up. The fact that Germans and French did live n Holland at the time our ancestors left! Europe or that German families might have anglicized their name does pose alculating problems, but afterall this I did just for fun. Here are my ethnic ercentages: 8% Dutch, 22% German, 12% French, 18% English, 6% Scottish, 6% Italian, 5% frican and 3% of European and Asian extract. nvironment moulds who we are, but ethnicity speaks to our origins and in my ase I'm clearly a child of many peoples. egards, ince Date: Sun, 20 Nov 2011 10:52:07 +0000 From: BAZDER <bazder@ntlworld.com> Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Ethnic Percentages To: south-africa@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <CADD9AO33_zAk277Sbd_UUoTCEKQTOwidBzHEfM5BcJhEBQAEAw@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Hi Sonia Where did you get this done? Regards Cate On 18 November 2011 14:47, Sonia van Heerden <soniavh11@hotmail.com> wrote: > > I think I have now ascertained the ethnic background of my husband's > family. > > His very Dutch VAN HEERDEN family is 27% Dutch, 40% German, 15% French > Huguenot and 12% English. > > His mother's German KRUGER family is 39% Dutch, 29% German, 24% French. > > This is taking each surname back to the 10th generation if possible. > > Taking into consideration the VAN HEERDEN and KRUGER family, the ethnic > background is 33% Dutch, 34% German, 19% French and 6% English. > > Vince Otto advised us years ago how to go about this exercise. > > Of course, my TKACHUK family is 100% Ukrainian from Ukraine and Poland. > > Regards > > Sonia Tkachuk van Heerden > Toronto, Canada > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2011 14:38:08 +1100 From: Andrew Rodger <rodgera@audioio.com> Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] Ethnicity of early settlers was Weyers To: south-africa@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <F3E83E71-55FC-401F-9FB9-563AD52E7575@audioio.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed On 20 Nov 2011, at 5:27 PM, DRobertson wrote: > Johann, > > I'm curious, do you know if anyone has done a numerical analysis - as > opposed to a percentage analysis - of the ethnic origins of the > various > waves of settler arrivals prior to 1900? > > Kind regards > Delia Robertson ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message