My paternal grandfather was born in Austria, and he married a Jewish woman from Hungary. (Was this a continuation of the Austro-Hungarian Empire?) Anyway, did this make my Father 1/2 Jewish and me 1/4 Jewish? Shalom... Hal
If you're like most people, your ancestry probably includes bits and pieces of several ethnicities that came from people several generations back. My family, on both sides, were all born in Sweden so I had grown up believing that I was a hundred percent Swedish. In reality, while my ancestry is from the area surrounding Sweden, it came out to be 41% Scandinavia, 27% Finland/Northwest Russia, 17% Europe West, and 14% Great Britain, and 1% Asia. My brother's DNA was similar enough that the DNA results recognized that we were siblings, but the percentages differed because, while we get 50% of our DNA from each of our parents, it isn't necessarily the same 50%.
@Hal Pollner Interesting question. We have never been able to reconcile the question of Jewish-sounding names as they fit into the family. But, my grandparents, both sides, despised pretty thoroughly both the Jewish as well as the German ethnicities. i learned this early-on, knowing that "Juder", "Judenbank", "Zidak" (Czech), all had some Jewish connotation. Why would all this be important now? Frank
Were you married to a Hungarian CC ?...i didn't know that. Were born in Hungary and moved to the USA when you were a child is that right?... So I presume you grew up bi-lingual..did you and your husband do the same for your children?
All my grandparents were Irish.... I was born in Scotland to parents who were also born in Scotland. That makes me a 100% Celtic, but a mix of Irish, Scottish, and Scandinavian Hal...I would suspect in answer to your question the simple answer would be YES !!
Yes, I was married to a Hungarian. I was born in Argentina though. My parents met there, both left Hungary in 1950. Yes, Hungarian was my first language...I didn't speak English until kindergarten. Out of the 4 siblings I'm the only one that married a Hungarian though. My bother met a woman in the UK when he was getting his masters at Oxford. When he returned to the US, she came over and they married. Most of her family is still in the UK and she visits every year. They live in CT on the east coast so it's not that long of a trip. I spoke mostly Hungarian with my husband, so my kids know some but aren't as fluent as I am.
Can I be nosey and ask how you met your Hungarian husband? ( I do remember you telling me a long time ago that your brother married an English woman)