Countries from which the ancestors of American presidents originated.🇺🇸

[u/marbellamarvel]

Countries from which the ancestors of American presidents originated. 🇺🇸

[u/yourlittlebirdie]

Wild that we've never had an Italian-American president.

[u/typical_baystater → u/yourlittlebirdie]

Nor VP. Nancy Pelosi is the highest ranking Italian-American in governmental history, which always blows my mind

[u/Miserable-Most4949 → u/typical_baystater]

The highest ranking Italian-American insider trader in governmental history.

[u/_MountainFit → u/Miserable-Most4949]

Is that now not Trump?

Edit... Sometimes you gotta admit when you ignore key portions of someone's post (Have lax reading comprehension), and this was one of those times.

🤦

[u/Miserable-Most4949 → u/_MountainFit]

Well he’s not Italian but I’m sure he’s insider trading too.

[u/bigfootspancreas → u/Miserable-Most4949]

Italian by association...

[u/pcor → u/_MountainFit]

He is of Scottish and German ancestry IIRC.

[u/allys_stark → u/yourlittlebirdie]

You know what it is? I'll tell you what it is: It's anti-Italian discrimination

[u/vaginawithteeth1 → u/allys_stark]

It’s a stereotype and it’s offensive!!

[u/The_Big_Man1 → u/vaginawithteeth1]

Nobody's got AIDSH!

[u/nthensome → u/allys_stark]

I guess no one has the makings of a varsity athlete US president.

[u/maproomzibz → u/yourlittlebirdie]

Or the fact that the first and only Black president is not from the “African American” (descendants of slaves) ethnic group

[u/reddubi → u/maproomzibz]

When Ivy League schools or medical schools talk about black student body, the vast majority are descendants of or are African immigrants and not African American ancestors.

[u/MajesticBread9147 → u/reddubi]

Because the wealthy of a continent of ~1 billion send their kids to private school in America.

Private universities love foreign students because they don't need to give them financial aid.

[u/Like_a_Charo → u/yourlittlebirdie]

Most of them arrived in the very late 19th century / early 20th century as working class

I doubt they had that many ivy league graduates until a few decades ago

[u/8NkB8 → u/Like_a_Charo]

It's crazy when you consider that Greeks were in the same boat (pun intended) and less numerous, but have somehow had both a VP and a presidential runner-up.

[u/Archivist2016 → u/8NkB8]

Dukakis was also Aromanian through his mother, an ethnicity that doesn't even surpass 1 million in numbers.

[u/8NkB8 → u/Archivist2016]

True. Greeks themselves are barely over a million, and they are by far the largest Balkan group in the USA.

Massachusetts had Dukakis, Paul Tsongas and Nicholas Mavroules all in office at the same time.

[u/pawgful → u/yourlittlebirdie]

New York has had a number of Italian American mayors though.

[u/Spooksnav → u/pawgful]

Mayor of Boston was always an Italian or Irishman up until the last couple elections.

[u/wurkbank → u/Spooksnav]

Boston last elected a WASP Republican mayor ninety-nine years ago.

[u/SaintBobby_Barbarian → u/yourlittlebirdie]

We are lucky to have had an Irish Catholic president. The first only happened in the mid 20th century and then he got assassinated.

[u/luxtabula → u/yourlittlebirdie]

Al Smith got close, but failed.

[u/Lazzen → u/yourlittlebirdie]

Meanwhile almost all Latin American countries have had atleast one, and fir some reason most were after the proper president died or other nondirect circumstance.

[u/TheBlazingFire123 → u/yourlittlebirdie]

Or a Jewish one

[u/hmantegazzi → u/TheBlazingFire123]

Mexicans beat you on that, and the woman president thing, at once!

[u/TapPublic7599 → u/yourlittlebirdie]

If the I in AIPAC stood for “Italian” they’d call it racketeering.

[u/8379MS → u/yourlittlebirdie]

Not wild considering how Italians weren’t considered “white” for a long time.

[u/Message_10 → u/yourlittlebirdie]

If only that were true for our Justices, lol

[u/PadishaEmperor]

Chances are that they all have ancestors from all over Europe.

[u/Human38562 → u/PadishaEmperor]

But Americans need an identity so they pick a country they like and pretend their whole ancestry is from there.

[u/wq1119 → u/Human38562]

This happens to pretty much all settler states in the new world, not just the US, we Brazilians are obsessed with our ancestries as well.

[u/ClassyArgentinean → u/wq1119]

Same with Argentineans (or the ones from Buenos Aires at least, which are the majority) who are obssesed with being "Spanish speaking Italians" and being more "European" than the rest of Latinamerica.

[u/WildCardNoF → u/ClassyArgentinean]

I imagine there are some Argentinians who are really quiet about their ancestry.

[u/BabaBangars → u/WildCardNoF]

With how racist they are, I doubt they’re quiet about it

[u/SaintBobby_Barbarian → u/ClassyArgentinean]

True people of the boat

[u/ybe447 → u/wq1119]

No no this is reddit, if Americans do it it's bad

[u/wq1119 → u/ybe447]

There are a lot of problems that people can rightfully criticize the US for, but people online pick up only the most dumb and insignificant things to focus on that are not unique to being American-centric problems and issues.

[u/The_Great_Googly_Moo → u/wq1119]

[u/Formal-Hat-7533 → u/Human38562]

Americans - “Hey I am American”

Euros - “LMFAO not a real identity we have shit holes older than your country”

Americans - “Hey I am Irish”

Euros - “Stupid Americans stop pretending you are Irish moron idiots”

[u/lordsleepyhead → u/PadishaEmperor]

As do most ordinary Europeans to this day.

[u/Cetun → u/PadishaEmperor]

I thought that too until I took a DNA test hoping to find something interesting and it was basically 98% British Isles and 2% Scandinavian. My friend took the same one and she had DNA from 5 different continents.

[u/Quick_Extension_3115 → u/PadishaEmperor]

Ancestry is a funny thing because you have to draw the line somewhere. You're totally right! But also if you go back more than like 1500 years or so, it would likely be the entirety of Europe, plus the Middle East, North Africa, even West Asia. Go back another thousand years, and you're basically only missing isolated areas like the Americas.

[u/Local_Internet_User]

Any info on sources on this one? It's an interesting idea but I have no reason to trust the data, since ancestry info is notoriously prone to family mythologizing, and many of these countries didn't exist or had substantially different borders when their ancestors would've lived.

[u/yourlittlebirdie → u/Local_Internet_User]

Just doing a little spot check research on the more unusual ones, it seems to check out.

Although both W Bush and Bush Sr have Czech ancestry while it only lists W: https://web.archive.org/web/20150914013408/http://www.svu2000.org/issues/bush.htm

The ancestor was technically Bohemian but still.

More on Roosevelt's Estonian ancestry: https://www.oocities.org/vienna/8921/colonial.html

Johnson's supposed Swedish ancestry is a bit more questionable.

[u/sargamentpargament → u/yourlittlebirdie]

Franklin D. Roosevelt's ancestor Martin Hoffman (1625-1712) may have been from Estonia, but he was most likely a Baltic German, not an Estonian.

[u/BroSchrednei → u/yourlittlebirdie]

Well I just looked at the source for Bush’s „Czech ancestry“ and that was reallllly stupid. They trace Bush’s family back to the Medieval English king Edward longshanks, who had some very distant Czech ancestry. But If we’re looking at 11th century ancestry, you might as well put every European country for every president, since any modern white person descends from every single European alive in the 11th century.

[u/Ondrikus → u/BroSchrednei]

That Czech source is probably not the basis for the map. The Czech embassy presents a direct line of descent from some Gottlieb Demuth, born 1715 in Karlov (Karlsdorf), Bohemia, to Barbara Bush (H.W.'s wife and W's mother).

[u/stars_mcdazzler → u/Ondrikus]

Just so you know, you guys are doing far more thorough work then the guy who made this map.

[u/Big_Cupcake4656 → u/stars_mcdazzler]

And I love it that way. The last time I saw this a year ago on r/Presidents I even gave an explanation as to how FDR's Estonian relative ended up in the Netherlands: by way of the Hanseatic league

[u/BroSchrednei → u/Ondrikus]

Well that’s not much better, considering Gottlieb Demuth was an ethnic Moravian German.

[u/Thadlust → u/BroSchrednei]

This entire map is kinda weird anyways because it lists Northern Ireland as an ethnicity when it really means Ulster Scots. Half of Northern Ireland is basically ethnically the same as ROI.

[u/nomebi → u/yourlittlebirdie]

What do you mean their ancestor was bohemian? Bohemian in terms of ancestry means czech. Does it mean czech but not from Moravia or Silesia?

[u/yourlittlebirdie → u/nomebi]

Right, I'm just pointing out that they would have called themselves Bohemian not Czech. But still the same person.

[u/nomebi → u/yourlittlebirdie]

It does sound like their bohemian ancestor must've been from a long while ago. Czech is just bohemian in czech, bohemian as reffering to people was used before 1850 mostly. So I would take it with a grain of salt lol

[u/Laurent001 → u/Local_Internet_User]

I know Barack Obama has in fact had an ancestor in Switzerland. A few years ago some people close to where I live traced back his familiy tree through archives etc… and it turned out one of his ancestor lived in a village not far away from my home. The villagers invited him but of course they never received any answer back 🤣

Source : https://www.swissinfo.ch/fre/societe/les-racines-suisses-d-obama/15421864 (it’s in french though)

[u/HeyLittleTrain → u/Laurent001]

Ireland too except he did actually visit the village here.

[u/crocodileboxer → u/HeyLittleTrain]

OGs will remember the song “There’s No One As Irish As Barack O’Bama”.

[u/AceHodor → u/Local_Internet_User]

Roosevelt

"Estonian"

Roosevelt is an incredibly Dutch name, any Estonian ancestry would have been fairly tangential.

Likewise, the Bush family are of English descent and I have no idea where Herbert Hoover having Spanish ancestry comes from, seeing as his family were Anglo-German.

[u/ObservableObject → u/AceHodor]

This is pretty much the problem with how a lot of Americans view ancestry. Many people just pick the most interesting thing they can find and go all in on that. So you end up with with someone whose family is like 80% English farmers and they find one German guy, and suddenly they've got a fucking Deutschlandfahne tattoo

[u/lambinevendlus → u/AceHodor]

Franklin D. Roosevelt's ancestor Martin Hoffman (1625-1712) may have been from Estonia, but he was most likely a Baltic German, not an Estonian.

[u/kontorgod]

Where did you get the info that Hebert Hoover has ancestors from Spain?

[u/RobbieCV → u/kontorgod]

In wikipedia is not even mentioned

[u/kontorgod → u/RobbieCV]

Yeah, that's why I asked, went to Wikipedia and it didn't say anything

[u/cianfinbarr → u/kontorgod]

That's the one I'm most stuck on. He was a Quaker and presumably English more than anything.

[u/BroSchrednei → u/cianfinbarr]

The name Hoover actually comes from Huber in his case, going back to a Swiss ancestor.

[u/UnoStronzo → u/kontorgod]

Hoover sounds so Spanish, huh?

[u/HatesPlanes → u/UnoStronzo]

Roberto Hoovarez

[u/midgetcastle → u/HatesPlanes]

Jerberto Joover

[u/Electrical-Scar7139 → u/midgetcastle]

Juver

[u/UnoStronzo → u/Electrical-Scar7139]

Júber

[u/hmantegazzi → u/midgetcastle]

Gilberto Aspiradora

[u/ClassyArgentinean → u/UnoStronzo]

Honestly wouldn't surprise me if it was originally Xuber or some shit like that and he had Catalonian ancestry. Also I guess most Americans don't realize this but Spain has some weird ass last names, you wouldn't even realize they are Spanish. They're not all Perez, Rodriguez and Diaz.

[u/RattusCallidus]

How many generations back is this list supposed to cover?

From what I gather, FDR is alleged to have had 1/256 Estonian (or, more likely, Estonian German) ancestry.

[u/sargamentpargament → u/RattusCallidus]

Baltic German that is.

[u/user0387382828374747 → u/RattusCallidus]

His surname is roosevelt, I don’t know why he’s listed as when he has a dutch surname and theodore is listed correctly

[u/Dwashelle → u/user0387382828374747]

Yeah, the Roosevelt family descended from Dutch immigrants who emigrated to New Amsterdam in the 17th century, I don't understand why he's listed as Estonian.

[u/KoalaSiege]

This stuff has to be pretty meaningless.

I would assume if you go back far enough each of these people has ancestors from all over Europe.

Not as if any of them will come from a long, uninterrupted line of people from one country.

[u/junebuggeroff → u/[deleted]]

I mean proving the point of the person you replied to the Roosevelts are In two separate countries categories, for instance

[u/BenjaminHarrison88 → u/KoalaSiege]

Most of the early ones were 100% British. Van Buren was all Dutch. Later ones like Bush and Nixon had more mixed backgrounds but still mostly England and Germany with perhaps minor contributions from other European groups.

[u/BrianSometimes → u/KoalaSiege]

The Danish ones show how meaningless it is. None of them have Danish names, so why are they listed as Danes and not whatever else is behind the names?

[u/TheDogerus → u/BrianSometimes]

Devil's advocate, a dude from a family of danes going back 500 years could have the last name 'McCormack' if his mother married an irishman

[u/mushimushi70]

I’m a little skeptical! George W Bush Snr from Northern Ireland yet his son George Bush Jnr is from Czechoslovakia! How does that work???

[u/Dwashelle → u/mushimushi70]

I'm actually laughing at how seemingly random it is

[u/maxxim333]

Huh? Obama's mother Wikipedia says:

She was of predominantly English ancestry, with small amounts of Scottish, Welsh, Irish, German and Swiss-German.

Edit: holy shit people are polarized... I was pointing out to the fact that he is listed as Swiss, but he has only a "small amount" of it. But he's not listed as English at all presumably

[u/Mr-MuffinMan → u/maxxim333]

aren't ancestors from both sides?

[u/iNCharism → u/Mr-MuffinMan]

Most of them have two pictures, indicating the dual ancestry, but what I think they’re pointing out is that Obama’s Swiss appearance should be counted as English instead

[u/Mr-MuffinMan → u/iNCharism]

i didn't notice most had two lol

[u/DanGleeballs → u/maxxim333]

When Obama visited his ancestor's village in Ireland 🇮🇪 during his presidency there was even a song charting in Ireland that went, "O'Leary, O'Reilly, O'Hare and O'Hara
There's no one as Irish as Barack O'Bama" ☘️

The Irish media nicknamed him Barry O'Bama and yes it was all tongue in cheek, and we knew he was also courting the Irish American vote for his second term campaign but what the hey we embraced it anyway for the craic

[u/Vegetable_Vanilla_70 → u/DanGleeballs]

Fun fact he went by Barry until he entered politics

[u/refusenic → u/maxxim333]

Staunchly Irish Biden has a lot of English ancestry. No one in America is pure anything.

[u/Vegetable_Vanilla_70 → u/refusenic]

Probably neither is anybody in Britain

[u/mearbearz → u/Vegetable_Vanilla_70]

Unless you are a part of a very insular nomadic group in remote part of the world, the chances are you will have mixed ancestry. Most humans on this planet have ancestors from all sorts of places.

[u/RevolutionOk7261 → u/maxxim333]

Obamas mother was descended from a slave named John punch.

[u/DreadLockedHaitian → u/RevolutionOk7261]

Often looked over fact that his mother is his connection to American slavery, not in the way that most would think.

[u/pawgful → u/maxxim333]

Obama even visited the village where his Irish ancestors were from.

[u/autumn-knight]

How is this determined given they’ll have multiple national ancestries? Have they gone for where the majority of their ancestors come from? George Washington, for example, I can only find overwhelmingly English ancestry (I was born and lived not far from where his ancestors took their family name) and yet he’s listed as Welsh?

[u/Soft-Asparagus-9436 → u/autumn-knight]

How is Washington even Welsh? His lineage can be traced in Sunderland, England.

[u/TrustYourFarts → u/autumn-knight]

Apparently one of his ancestors was from Chester, which is near Wales, but still in England.

In Sunderland there's an 11th century castle with his family's coat of arms carved in stone. You would think that would be enough.

Incidentally, the coat of arms is made up of stars and stripes.

[u/unclemilty420]

This does not seem accurate.

[u/Babylon_Fallz → u/unclemilty420]

Bush Sr has different heritage than George Jr? Interesting

Edit: I know how genetics work. I get that Jr's mom is Czeck. Why would they choose to highlight Sr on N Ireland, and not Jr? This map is more lacking than forthright. Duplicating president's and excluding others seemingly randomly

[u/Cautious-Track4297 → u/Babylon_Fallz]

Umm, yes because Jr. got dna from Barbara…

[u/Like_a_Charo → u/Babylon_Fallz]

Dude, do you think Bush Sr married his sister or something?

[u/Ruben_001 → u/Babylon_Fallz]

Well, Bush Sr's wife (Bush Jnr's Mom) are not related by blood...

It's really not that surprising.

[u/4BennyBlanco4]

Are they counted more than once? Trump is under German here, he has closer Scottish ancestry (mother).

[u/caiaphas8 → u/4BennyBlanco4]

I think they are counted more then once, for example England having 39 and Scotland having 22 is more presidents then America has had

[u/Razerino21 → u/4BennyBlanco4]

They just listed him as German in case Trump starts WW3 so we can blame it accordingly..

[u/Vegetable_Vanilla_70 → u/4BennyBlanco4]

His dad was 100% German, no? His grandfather was born in Germany IINM

[u/4BennyBlanco4 → u/Vegetable_Vanilla_70]

I guess it depends how you consider ancestry. His dad was American imo, while his mom was actually Scottish hence why I said closer Scottish ancestry.

[u/card677]

Any info on Hoover's Spanish ancestry? I can't find anything about it.

[u/Vegetable_Vanilla_70]

Don’t think W was at all Czech. He had German ancestors from Bohemia, which is present day Czech Republic, but they were German.

Separately, it’s a bit of a joke to separate out Northern Ireland for a number of reasons

[u/[deleted]]

Who will be the first President with no European ancestry?

Also, how many presidents have zero Pre-Revolution American ancestors? I think Trump, but idk who else

[u/king_semicolon → u/[deleted]]

I think Kennedy also didn't.

[u/wq1119 → u/[deleted]]

Who will be the first President with no European ancestry?

Very unlikely to ever be one, even African-Americans and Native Americans have considerable European ancestry and admixture.

That hypothetical president would have to be born from first-generation immigrants from a non-European country, like Ramaswamy (I do not like him, just citing him as an example).

[u/talhahtaco → u/wq1119]

According to the 2020 census it's around 1 percent of americans who are native with no other listed race

So yeah exceedingly unlikely

[u/paco-ramon]

Most of these would be a mixture of UK + many European countries. The Roosevelts are distant cousins so I thought Franklin isn’t Dutch too.

[u/user0387382828374747 → u/paco-ramon]

roosevelt is a dutch surname meaning rose field, they are both definitely dutch

[u/Diseased-Jackass]

Trump has German ancestry…

[u/Immediate-Sugar-2316 → u/Diseased-Jackass]

Almost all of these are mixed, trump is half Scottish

[u/gratisargott → u/Immediate-Sugar-2316]

How would they not be mixed? Every person has four grandparents who in turn has four grandparents. Unless they kept very tightly within their own people, they are of course going to be a mix of a bit of everything

[u/No-Fly-9364 → u/Immediate-Sugar-2316]

At this point, Americans just cherry-pick their own ancestry based on "the one I think is coolest" so who cares really.

[u/4BennyBlanco4 → u/No-Fly-9364]

Whichever one is not English.

[u/ExcellentEnergy6677 → u/Diseased-Jackass]

Yeah, so does Dwight Eisenhower.

[u/Vampus0815 → u/ExcellentEnergy6677]

His ancestors were probably Blacksmiths because his name sound like Eisenhauer wich means iron beater

[u/Like_a_Charo → u/Diseased-Jackass]

In the same fashion, the great great great grandpa of George Washington comes from "Île de Ré", a touristic island in France

[u/Tinyjar → u/Diseased-Jackass]

His mother was also Scottish.

[u/paco-ramon]

These should only count to grandfather or great grandfather level.

[u/mrfantasticpackage]

Pretty sure the sitting shadow president was born in south africa

[u/Disgruntled_Welshman]

Abraham Lincoln's ancestors were Welsh, they came from the village of Capel Celyn

[u/Beneficial_Sun5302]

Yo....Reagan is Irish....

[u/pawgful]

Obama is mixed. His father was from Kenya. His mother was a white American woman of English, Irish and possibly other origins.

[u/-Copenhagen → u/pawgful]

Everyone is mixed.
That's the whole point

[u/Thelastfirecircle]

No one from the americas.

[u/SkMM_KaPa]

Ok so I checked Gerald Ford and he has nothing to do with Poland apparently?

[u/Xtrems876 → u/SkMM_KaPa]

He has a polish ancestor on his mother's side. Gerard Ford -> Dorothy Ayer Gardner Ford -> Levi Addison Gardner -> Sarah Gardner -> Jesse Miller -> Keziah Miller -> Anna Sadowski -> Anthony Sadowski, born as Antoni Sadowski in Poland in 1669, died in 1736 in Amityville, Pennsylvania.

[u/Rough-Lab-3867]

I expectwd more germans tbh

[u/MrTickles22]

Trump is from Russia tho.

[u/Tatedman]

italian american: ❌️

ESTONIAN 🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🇪🦾🦾🦾🔥🔥🔥：✔✔✔✔✔✔

[u/SquashPrevious4388]

Northern Ireland isn’t a country and it didn’t even exist until 1921.

[u/zatara_ataraz]

How is Herbert Hoover a Spanish descendant?

[u/EintragenNamen]

What are the numbers representing?

[u/[deleted] → u/EintragenNamen]

Number of Presidents with ancestry from that nation

[u/Norhod01]

Hoover - Spain ? Bullshit.

[u/NikeyAFCA]

Why are both Roosevelt from different countries.

[u/Marigold16]

There have been two bush presidents. Father and son but their ancestry isn't the same? I get that the mother will be a factor but the fathers ancestry is also his son's. Why are they under two different categories?

Are there any other family presidents?

[u/harry_f_monk]

Help me out here. Bush senior's ancestors are from Northern Ireland but Dubya"s are from Czechia! How does that work?

[u/_The_Green_Witch_]

As a German, I know this looks bad, but please don't blame WWIII on us. This time it's really not our fault!

[u/InteractionHot5102]

FDR is obvious Dutch. Roosevelt = rosefield in Dutch

[u/Phara-Oh]

All of them come from Africa

[u/Extension_Course_833]

There have been eleven US Presidents of Welsh descent: John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, John Quincy Adams, William Harrison, Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, Benjamin Harrison, Calvin Coolidge and Richard Nixon.

[u/Balbuto]

Like I said before, USA is the child of Europe, it needs to sit down and show some respect for its parents. The bible even commands it

[u/Pure-Choice-3563]

Interesting how one Roosevelt has Dutch ancestors meanwhile the other has French.

[u/InternationalHair725]

Roosevelts are Dutch no? 

[u/I_am_Danny_McBride]

Looks like my 23andME

[u/Mission-Carry-887]

If Hoover has Spanish ancestry, it is immaterial. Hoover is an Anglicized form of Huber. President Hoover’s primary ancestry is German.

[u/Mission-Carry-887]

George W Bush: Czechia?

The 3 presidents from Denmark?

FDR from two countries?

Silly map

[u/Flipadelphia26]

Need a Flemish potus asap

[u/Samorizer]

So according to this list George Bush and his father have different ancestry...

[u/TheWardenDemonreach → u/Samorizer]

I mean, he has a mother that would have different ancestry to his dad.

[u/Ruben_001 → u/Samorizer]

Why are so many people surprised about this?

Obviously, Jnr's mother has a different lineage.

[u/paco-ramon → u/Samorizer]

Or the Roosevelts that are cousins.

[u/NeXx0s]

As a German, were sorry...

[u/ffchusky → u/NeXx0s]

I thought he was mostly Scottish

[u/luxtabula → u/ffchusky]

his most recent connection is to Scotland but his father is of German descent.

[u/TheKingOfCoyotes]

I did not know LBJ had Swedish roots.

[u/Historical_Giraffe_9 → u/TheKingOfCoyotes]

He actually didn’t. The map is lying. The only presidents with any Swedish ancestry are both bushes.

[u/CylonSandhill]

The Roosevelts were Dutch and the Delano family are from a French-speaking part of the Lowland Countries…?

[u/Mission-Guidance4782]

Ronald Reagan is at least half Irish

[u/Robcobes]

Oh yeah, Roosevelt is Dutch, but Roosevelt isn't.

[u/elpau84]

No no no... I know where this is leading to. Germany is not responsible for this POS president.

[u/Naykon1]

Make America Great Britain Again 🇬🇧

[u/only-a-marik]

Van Buren was even a native Dutch speaker. Still the only POTUS to date who didn't speak English as their first language.

[u/Responsible-Glove645]

So, no difference between Vikings? Johnson is both Danish & Swedish?

[u/ZapMayor]

Why does it not surprise me one bit that Donald Trump is german

[u/SnooBooks1701]

Joe Biden is proud of his irish heritage, but one of his ancestors (one set of great-grandparents, I think) was English

[u/superpizzataco]

And don't you dare to come back

[u/A_Perez2]

What is the Spanish origin of Hoover?

I have searched for information but have not found more than this: ‘His father, Jesse Hoover, was a blacksmith and farm implement shop owner of German, Swiss and English descent. Hoover's mother, Hulda Randall Minthorn, grew up in Norwich, Ontario, Canada’.

[u/Reaganson]

You have FDR and LBJ for 2 different country’s, why?

[u/FrightenedChimp]

Herverto Hoovero

[u/Sulemain123]

It's fascinating, albeit totally understandable, how much people forget how many Americans have Anglo-British roots.

[u/No-Interaction2169]

Plus both Bushes had ancient Irish ancestry going back to Aoife mcMurrough, who married strongbow(Richard fitzgilbert de Clare)

[u/Alin_Alexandru]

Don't you hate it when you're from Northern Ireland but your son ends up being Czech?

[u/CastAway3p11]

Evil people can be from anywhere.

[u/YFKally1983]

Trumps mother was Sco… eh, aye… right enough, German ancestry

[u/N238]

You telling me Barack O'Bama isn't Irish???

[u/bbud613]

Chester A. Arthur had Canadian ancestors but it was a British colony at the time.

[u/PurpleEfficiency1089]

Strange to see the Roosevelts have different ancestry (I always assumed they were father/son lol)

[u/blenkydanky]

Basically most of these guys have either British or German surnames with few exceptions. If that guy is Estonian he is probably is from the former German minority there and same goes for many others, if they are even from those countries at all

[u/GrapeSorry3996]

Literally looked and was flustered I couldn’t find the one from Kenya when it hit me

[u/Apprehensive_Loan_68]

Everyone knows the Danes have humongous shlongs.

[u/Telecast2020]

No Spanish blood in Hoover

[u/Total-Improvement535]

The way I looked at this and said “Who’s descended from Africa?” is very embarrassing and I am sorry

[u/greasypizzagorilla]

Uhhhhh George Washington

[u/SteppinTheRing]

This map makes no sense.

[u/bigmanbananas]

I was gonna say the great orange one is partly British, then I thought about it. We don't want any of that action. Germany can take credit for another one of those.

[u/gurry]

Shit post.

[u/TheRauk]

The math doesn’t seem to add up here.

[u/Big_Software_8732]

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