The most long standing and popularised theory has been the attempts to link Assyrian ancestry to the ancient Germans.

* Stirnet: Brandenburg1 ( genealogy of the Houses of Ascania and Brandenburg, including the most likely ancestry of the 11th-century House of Ascania )

The first people of European descent ( most of whom were born in America, and many of whom were of mixed ancestry ) arrived with the De Anza Expedition in 1776.

At the time, the house of Trastámara was the most prestigious in Europe, due to the rule of the Catholic Monarchs, so the alliance of Catherine and Arthur validated the House of Tudor in the eyes of European royalty and also strengthened the Tudor claim to the English throne via Catherine of Aragon's ancestry.

Japanese Americans were by far the most widely affected group, as all persons with Japanese ancestry were removed from the West Coast and southern Arizona.

El Cid's own marriage and those of his daughters raised his status by connecting him to the peninsular royalty ; even today, most European monarchs and many commoners of European ancestry descend from El Cid, through Cristina's son, King García Ramírez of Navarre and to a lesser extent via a granddaughter Jimena of Barcelona, who married into the Counts of Foix.

Nevertheless, the Omani Arab legacy in East Africa is currently found through their numerous descendants found along the coast that can directly trace ancestry to Oman and are typically the wealthiest and most politically influential members of the Kenyan coastal community.

Based on the work of geneticists, a PBS series on African Americans explained that while most African Americans are racially mixed, it is relatively rare that they have Native American ancestry.

Each of these languages spawned an entire family of descendants, and most modern languages count at least one of them in their ancestry.

The most orthodox eat only " Ital " or natural foods, in which the matching of herbs or spices with vegetables is the result of long tradition originating from the African ancestry and cultural heritage of Rastafari.

After a year into his Wing Chun training, most of Yip Man's other students refused to train with Lee after they learnt of his ancestry ( his mother was half Chinese and half Caucasian ) as the Chinese generally were against teaching their martial arts techniques to non-Asians.

Daniel Niklaus Chodowiecki ( 16 October 1726 – 7 February 1801 ) was a Polish-German painter and printmaker with Huguenot ancestry, who is most famous as an etcher.

Although membership to the phyles in most cases is voluntary and not determined by an individual's ancestry or race, the cultural and class hierarchies established in the novel create a clear distinction between the " haves " and the " have-nots.

They were predominantly criollos ( local-born people of European ancestry, mostly Spanish or Portuguese ), bourgeois and influenced by liberalism and in most cases with military training in the mother country.

In an inherited form, it is the most common genetic diseases in those of Northern European ancestry.

Socrates explains that philosophers are open to mockery because they are not concerned about what interests most people: they could not care less about the scandals in their neighbor's house, the tracing of one's ancestry to Heracles, and so on.

Several Serbs have featured prominently in Hollywood — most notably Karl Malden and Milla Jovovich, both of whom are of paternal Serbian ancestry.

The hereditary form of the disease is most common among those of Northern European ancestry, in particular those of Celtic descent.

Additionally, most multi-racial Bermudians do not today result from having parents of different races, but inherit diverse ancestry via many generations of mixed-race forebears, all of whom may be assumed to have been themselves entirely of Black African ancestry.

Those claiming " American " ancestry are of predominantly English ancestry but most people in Baker County who are of English stock have a tendency to identify simply as Americans.

The most recent results suggest that 46 % of those who have a family tradition of Priestly descent belong to the Y-DNA haplogroup identified as J-P58, and that at least two-thirds of that 46 % have very similar Y-DNA sequences indicating comparatively recent common ancestry.

Computer-assisted phylogenetic analyses of a data matrix using characteristics of most of the major groups of terrestrial vertebrates place the Baphetids close to the ancestry of amniotes.

As an American Catholic of Irish ancestry, I came with certain preconceptions and expectations ; ;

We do well to remind ourselves that from men and women of New England ancestry also issued the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, the Seventh Day Adventists, Christian Science, the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, the American Home Missionary Society, the American Bible Society, and New England theology.

African Americans ( also referred to as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, and formerly as American Negroes ) are citizens or residents of the United States who have total or significant partial ancestry from any of the native populations of Sub-Saharan Africa.

A considerable portion of the U. S. population identified as black also has some Native American or European ancestry.

He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.

His wife was born to a German American father and a mother with both Scottish and Irish ancestry.

British Mixed martial arts fighter Dan Hardy has called American fighter Marcus Davis a " Plastic Paddy " due to Marcus ' enthusiasm for his Irish ancestry.

According to the Harvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, in 1790 there were 400, 000 Americans of Irish birth or ancestry out of a total white population of 3, 100, 000.

21. 7 % were of German, 12. 8 % English, 11. 5 % American, 9. 9 % Irish and 8. 1 % Polish ancestry according to Census 2000.

Hispanic is a narrower term which only refers to persons of Spanish-speaking origin or ancestry, while " Latino " is more frequently used to refer more generally to anyone of Latin American origin or ancestry, including Brazilians.

Later, she became a mistress to Cortés and gave birth to his first son, Martín, who is considered one of the first Mestizos ( people of mixed European and indigenous American ancestry ).

The eagle feather law ( Title 50 Part 22 of the Code of Federal Regulations ) stipulates that only individuals of certifiable Native American ancestry enrolled in a federally recognized tribe are legally authorized to obtain eagle feathers for religious or spiritual use.

Intertribal mixing was common among Native American tribes, so individuals often had ancestry from more than one tribe, particularly after tribes lost so many members from disease.

In recent years, genetic genealogists have been able to determine the proportion of Native American ancestry carried by the African-American population.

They stated that 5 % of African Americans have at least 12. 5 % Native American ancestry.

Since the census of 2000, people who have, or believe they have, Native American ancestry may designate themselves, for census purposes, as being of more than one race.

Since the 1960s, the number of people claiming Native American ancestry has grown significantly and by the 2000 census, the number had more than doubled.

Panama has a very diverse population which is largely of mixed Spanish, black, and Native American descent / ancestry.

According to the CIA World Factbook, Panama has a population of more than 3, 400, 000 ; 70 % is mestizo ( mixed white, Native American, and / or black ) and mulattoes ( mixed white, and black ancestry ), 10 % is primarily black and mulattoes, 15 % white and 6 % Native Americans.

* mestizo ( mixed white and Native American ) and mulattoes ( mixed white and black ancestry ) 70 %, Blacks / African descent 14 %, white 10 %, Amerindian 6 % and East Asian 1 %.

While many Latin American countries have long since rendered the system officially illegal through legislation, usually at the time of their independence, prejudice based on degrees of perceived racial distance from European ancestry combined with one ’ s socioeconomic status remain, an echo of the colonial caste system.