US Ancestry Quiz

Can you name the US Ancestry?

created by zoopy

Enter an ancestry in the box below
Correctly named ancestries will show up below
Answers do not have to be guessed in order
Source: The Source: A Guidebook to American Genealogy By Loretto Dennis Szucs
Data from 2000 US Census. Self-reported. Note "Hispanic" is defined as other than the main two groups.
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Order	Ancestry	Count/percentage
1		42,885,162 (15.2%)
2		36,419,434 (12.9%)
3		30,594,130 (10.9%)
4		24,515,138 (8.7%)
5		20,644,711 (7.3%)
6		15,723,555 (5.6%)
7		10,846,018 (3.9%)
8		10,017,244 (3.6%)
9		8,977,444 (3.2%)

Order	Ancestry	Count/percentage
10		4,890,581 (1.7%)
11		4,542,494 (1.6%)
12		4,477,725 (1.5%)
13		4,319,232 (1.5%)
14		4,119,301 (1.5%)
15		3,998,310 (1.4%)
16		3,406,178 (1.2%)
17		3,652,214 (0.9%)
18		2,42,585 (0.9%)

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US Ancestry Quiz

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Created Dec 7, 2009 in History
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	LinuxLinus:	Dec 7th, 2009 at 15:34 GMT	3 points
	I don't love being the PC police, but I think "Scots-Irish" would probably be less likely to call to mind bad feelings than "Scotch-Irish".

	Co_Flo:	Dec 7th, 2009 at 17:07 GMT	1 point
	I agree, "Scotch" refers specifically to the drink.

	swallowtail:	Dec 7th, 2009 at 18:30 GMT	2 points
	I'm Scottish - and you are correct to say that Scotch is the drink!

	josquius:	Dec 7th, 2009 at 19:19 GMT	2 points
	detection sucks. Should take African and Northern Irish and native

	zoopy:	Dec 7th, 2009 at 20:32 GMT	1 point
	changes made. African was there (as well as a slightly less PC term that is used quite often in polite and company).

	lalalala:	Dec 8th, 2009 at 03:14 GMT	1 point
	I know this comes from the census, but I would just have African instead of African-American. The ancestors weren't American.

	Hamburger:	Dec 9th, 2009 at 13:51 GMT	4 points
	just wondering how much overlap there is between Hispanic and Mexican/Puerto Rican

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	sjunkins:	Dec 12th, 2009 at 19:35 GMT	3 points
	I love scotch. Scotchy, scotch, scotch.

	sideways69 - mclaugh:	Dec 21st, 2009 at 21:43 GMT	1 point
	thats what she said

	tstackmoney:	Dec 29th, 2009 at 05:31 GMT	4 points
	@joebobs: scots-irish are descendants of irish protestants who came here from ulster (northern ireland). though mostly originally scottish in origin they are distinct from scotsmen because they lived in ireland for several centuries before coming here, and they are distinct from normal irishmen because they retained their protestant faith, causing great conflict (to this day) between them and the majority catholic irish. they have such a strong identity because of their conflicts with the irish back in ireland that formed their central collective memory even after coming here

	mrpotwtf69:	May 22nd, 2010 at 18:10 GMT	1 point
	Your missing a 3 in the Chinese population number, it should read 2,432,585. Also I'm surprised Australian isn't on here.

	thejazzkickazz:	May 22nd, 2010 at 19:09 GMT	1 point
	I'm kind of curious about Jewish/Hebrew. Did the source of this data count Jews based on source country (i.e. Russian, German, Polish, etc.)? I think there are well over 6 million in the U.S. today.

	dxman:	May 22nd, 2010 at 19:56 GMT	1 point
	You can get Hispanic from the description. Please make it not so obvious.

	tbwilson:	May 28th, 2010 at 08:27 GMT	1 point
	@lalalala "The ancestors weren't American." I disagree. The term African American refers to a unique ethnic group - The descendents of slaves brought over from various countries and ethnic groups that blended together into one cohesive group. In addition, since they were so exploited and marginalized, African Americans were stripped of their original identities and cultures so they forced to create their own, one that is very distinctive from Africa.

	chriskotx:	May 11th, 2011 at 22:46 GMT	1 point
	So Scotch tape is alcoholic?

	Korenkiewicz:	May 26th, 2011 at 01:06 GMT	1 point
	I'm surprised at how many French and Swedish people there are, and how few Russian and Chinese people there are.