Today I spent the afternoon speaking to the matriarchs of either side of my parentage in an effort to track down my heritage. What I can say for sure:
50% unknown/unverified
25% Italian
12.5% Finnish
6.25% German
6.25% English
25% of the unknown is completely unknown (nobody knows where/when my maternal grandfather was born, apparently- though the surname Jorgensen is of course Danish-Norwegian), and the other 25% is a lineage containing the surnames Fry, Smith, and Merrill (which is an old Norman name in origin), so I'm leaning towards assuming at least some of that is English in origin, with some probable French/Irish ties, though we were unable to pin down a clear immigrant ancestor. I'm hoping that the really unknown 25% is actually like, I don't know, something cool like Bear or Moose. Yeah! But more probably it's straight up honky homeland English or Danish-Norwegian.
Fun fact: Every single one of my female ancestors from Cornwall, England are referred to as, "a spinster" hahahaha
There's you're bump, CHAOS thread.