My surname is of Irish descent, from County Roscommon.
The current distribution throughout the world is 81% USA, 11 % Great Britain, 6% Canada,
2% Ireland, and 1% my island home Australia.
So most of my relatives went to the USA.
My relatives were shipped out as convicts to Botany Bay in Sydney and Port Arthur in Tasmania.
I was born in Tasmania so I am from fine convict stock.
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That means your aristocracy here in Oz
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Anglo-Saxon me.
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Too true.
I hold my head high because of my ancestry. 
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Indian with a touch of Portuguese.
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You are assuming you are related to everyone that shares your name? That’s unlikely.
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I’m related to a Charge of the Light Brigade officer, going further back, English landowners. But I make nothing of those particular lines because it’s now so watered down. eg I’m 50% my mother’s son and, as lovely as she was, was from a family known for nothing in particular.
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A few generations back some of those went to the USA. About 3 years ago I had a letter from some of the descendants tracing family history . Somehow they found me and wanted to see if I could help with the UK side. Reading the letter they found out that on the USA side one ancestor was at the battle of little big horn with Custer. Apparently they were camping in the next field and went to complain about the noise
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I am very involved in my Husbands Ancestry and have done very little on my own…I looked up my maiden name and this is what it says…
https://www.ancestry.co.uk/name-origin?surname=kurn
Husbands has been addictive as 3rd Great Grandma was French and a French Huguenot so the family is very well documented…
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I don’t know my heritage. I have no interest in it and consider it irrelevant to me.
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Maybe I should have said people with my surname emigrated mostly to the US. There are 2635 of them there. The spelling of my surname is rare here in Australia, with 73.
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Yes I did an dna test
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Yup. Mom was Norwegian and Dad is a Finn.
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All 100% Italian.
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Russian, Irish and German…just means I can drink all day and still stay sober.
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I am a mutt of English-Irish-Scottish-Swiss-Austrian ancestry.
It constantly amazes me is that each of us is part of an unbroken line of two young people who fell in love, started a little family, worked hard enough and had the good fortune of seeing those offspring raised to repeat the cycle. - through famines, wars, climate changes, endemics, pandemics - you name it - all the way back to the Common Ancestor. Just imagine!
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Yes, but, PSEXtreme, you suffer daily internal conflict over what to drink. 
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Majority Wins…I stick with Vodka
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The mind boggles when we think about all the things that could have gone wrong for any one of those offspring through the years.
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