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.

The ancestry of most American Jews goes back to Eastern European Ashkenazi Jewish communities, which migrated to US on the course of 19th and 20th centuries, as well as more recent influxes of Persian, Israeli and other Middle Eastern Jews.

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.

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

Mestizos, the multiracial group of mixed European and Amerindian ancestry, are by far the largest of all the ethnic groups, and comprise around 72 % of the current population.

Poverty rates were higher for indigenous peoples, Afro-descendants and rural areas, reaching 44 % of the Native ancestry population.

Molecular evidence indicates that the lineage of gibbons ( family Hylobatidae ) diverged from Great Apes some 18-12 million years ago, and that of orangutans ( subfamily Ponginae ) diverged from the other Great Apes at about 12 million years ; there are no fossils that clearly document the ancestry of gibbons, which may have originated in a so-far-unknown South East Asian hominoid population, but fossil proto-orangutans may be represented by Sivapithecus from India and Griphopithecus from Turkey, dated to around 10 million years ago.

Today there are an estimated 700, 000 people of Irish ancestry in Argentina, approximately 15. 5 % of the Republic of Ireland's current population ; however, these numbers may be far higher, given that many Irish newcomers declared themselves to be British, as Ireland at the time was still part of the United Kingdom and today their descendants integrated into Argentine society with mixed bloodlines.

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.

Approximately 5 % of Hawaii residents speak Japanese, with an estimated 12. 6 % of the population of Japanese ancestry in 2008.

Japanese emigrants can also be found in Peru, Argentina, Australia ( especially in the eastern states ), Canada ( especially in Vancouver where 1. 4 % of the population has Japanese ancestry ), the United States ( notably California, where 1. 2 % of the population has Japanese ancestry, and Hawaii ), and the Philippines ( particularly in Davao and Laguna ).

Of the 30, 000 people of Chinese ancestry residing in Mauritius, the vast majority come from the Hakka and Cantonese provinces, both of which are well present among Malaysia's population of Chinese ancestry.

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

Slightly less than 5 % of the population of Ontario is Franco-Ontarian, that is those whose native tongue is French, although those with French ancestry account for 11 % of the population.

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.

There are 73, 849 Australians ( 0. 4 of the population ) who reported having Sinhalese ancestry in 2006.

The UK hip-hop scene tended to sample more deeply from Jamaican influences, due to the larger Caribbean ancestry of the British black population, and the existing mass British popularity of reggae, dancehall and dub in the 1980s.

The geneticist Stephen Oppenheimer carried out an extensive research of the British Isles, finding that the Celtic and Anglo-Saxon influx had little effect, with the majority of British ethnicity tracing back from an ancient Palaeolithic Iberian migration, now represented by the Basques so that 75 % of the modern British population could ( in theory ) trace their ancestry back 15, 000 years.

The modern population of Anguilla is largely of African descent, with a minority having European ( mainly English ) ancestry.

Although Japanese-born people of Korean ancestry are a significant segment of the Japanese population, they are still considered resident aliens because of their nationality.

After November 1942 and the arrival of Italian troops occupying the city, a certain ambivalence remained among the population, many recent immigrants of Italian ancestry.

Americans of Chinese descent, including those with partial Chinese ancestry constitute 1. 2 % of the total U. S. population as of 2010.