Your Roots

My mom's side is Telugu (south-eastern India; love rice) and my father's Marathi (western India; love rotis). Though it's the same country, the difference in culture and language mixes things up in our home... ranging from food, clothes to chit-chat (i have to speak three languages at home, one with my mother, one with my father and another for my grandparents).
That's about it.
 
My Mother is 100% English but my Dad is from a small island in the Caribbean called 'St Vincent' and he came over when he was 20! So I'm a mix between those two nations, it has given me a nice olive skin colour imo, and I tan really easily so that's great!
 
Supposedly my family is mostly German and Dutch. Think it was my great-grandparents (on both sides) that were the first to immigrate to the United States. My dad took some ancestry dna test about a year ago or whenever exactly it was, and while he never showed us the results, he said that the whole mostly German+Dutch thing was basically true, although he said something about how, on his side of the family at least, there is a little bit of "viking ancestry" or something apparently.

Kinda wish that I could see our family tree myself, but I don't know how I'd go about doing that.
 
My whole life I was told I was mostly Polish and Irish in heritage.

I took the ancestry DNA test, and was rather surprised when my biggest chunk was actually Nordic, followed by a three way tie for Eastern euro (expected), English (unexpected), and Germanic (extremely unexpected). I suppose I shouldn't be too surprised based on skin tone alone, but it is a bit disappointing that I will never be able to get a tan as long as I live lol. I also have Irish and Russian lineage according to it.

As cool as it is to know what I am in that depth (or at least what they tell me I am), I'd much rather see a family tree. As it stands, the furthest back I know in my family is my great granddad on my mum's side. Not very far back...
 
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