My background is pretty much 50/50 Irish and German which means I like to get drunk, billegerant, and unsuccessfully attempt to conquer the world on a fairly regular basis.<div><br></div><div>James R. Coplin</div><div><span></span><br>
On Tuesday, January 22, 2013, Peter Korsten wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Op 22-1-2013 18:28, Komatos schreef:<br>
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Same thing here Tony. I'm an American mutt myself. German, Irish, Scottish & English from my dad's side, Hungarian & Polish from my mom's side. Just about every hard drinking ethnicity from Europe runs through my veins. ;-)<br>
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"Hard-drinking ethnicity from Europe" doesn't exactly narrow it down, because *all* of Europe is hard-drinking:<br>
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<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_alcohol_consumption" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/<u></u>List_of_countries_by_alcohol_<u></u>consumption</a><br>
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Which would explain a thing or two. :-)<br>
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>From what I can tell, my ancestry is very localised to a specific area in the nowadays Netherlands. But this area has been French, United Dutch, Belgian, part of the German League, and finally Dutch (bisected by a German occupation) in just the last two centuries, so I'm right there with you guys. :-)<br>
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- Peter<br>
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