In the 70's, my Mom's cousin, Edith Luzadder Gardner, started doing some genealogical research.  In the late 80's I bought some genealogy software to put all her findings in electronic form.  I was traveling a lot for work, so when I went places where my family was from, I would visit cemeteries and courthouses for more info.  Along the way, I came in contact with a few second cousins doing research as well as more distant cousins.  So my genealogy database has really grown, and goes back to the late 1600's.  To me it's like a big puzzle that I'm putting together.  I sat down one day and figured out my ethnic backup (I'm a computer geek - I just like numbers) by looking at all my great-great-great-great-grandparents and determining where they were from.  Right now it stands at:

• 50% Polish (area was sometimes part of Russia and sometimes part of Prussia)
• 6.25% German
• 6.25% French
• 6.25% Irish
• 3.125% Prussian
• 3.125% English
• 1.5625% Bavarian
• 1.5625% Sephardic Jew (either Spanish or Portuguese)
• 21.875% undetermined or less than 1% (includes native American and Welsh)