Maps Of American Ancestries

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English: lavender, Am. Native: orange,
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The ancestry of the people of the United States is widely varied and includes descendants of populations from around the world, some presumably extinct elsewhere. In addition to its variation, the ancestry of people of the United States is also marked by significant amounts of Intermarriage between Ethnic and Racial groups.

While some Americans can trace their ancestry back to a single ethnic group or population in Europe , Africa , or Asia , these are usually first- and second-generation Americans. Generally, degree of mixed heritage increases the longer one's ancestors have lived in the United States (see Melting Pot ). Recent archaeological and genetic research posits that Native American populations are also descended from several waves of Pacific Rim migrants.
There are several means available to discover the ancestry of the people residing in the United States, including Genealogy , Genetics , Oral And Written History , and analysis of Federal Population Census schedules.

ANALYSIS BY 2000 FEDERAL POPULATION CENSUS

The majority of the 295 million people currently living in the United States are descended from European immigrants who have arrived in the past 500 years. Latin American immigrants from countries to the south, and African American people, most of whom were originally introduced as slave labor, form the next-largest ethnic groups. The Native American peoples who were displaced by the Old World immigrants now form a small minority in the population.

Major components of the European segment of the United States population are descended from immigrants from Germany (19.2 %), Ireland (10.8 %), England (7.7 %), Italy (5.6 %), Scandinavia (3.7 %) and Poland (3.2 %) with many immigrants also coming from Slavic countries. Other significant European immigrant populations came from eastern and southern Europe and French Canada; few immigrants came directly from France . Scottish, Welsh, and Scotch-Irish Americans form large segments of the white population but are systematically under-reported due to the tendancy to lump them in with the English, with whom their ancestors shared a government, or Germans with whom they have intermarried on a truly massive scale. A large number of Americans (12.9 %) are descended from African immigrants, the majority of whom were brought as Slave s, with a smaller amount immigrating since then from Africa n nations or the Caribbean . All of these numbers, however, are inaccurate as many citizens listed themselves as "American" on the census (7.2 %) and US government statistics depend entirely on self-reported ancestry. As an example of the shortfalls of such a system, estimates of the Scotch-Irish population by ancestry place it at 15-18% of the total population, making it the second largest ethnic group in the country. People of "American" ancestry are generally assumed to be of predominately English, Scottish, or Welsh stock, though many are likely to be people of several different European ethnicities who are unable or unwilling to choose one.

Ancestry maps

"West Indian," "Arab," and "Sub-saharan African" ancestries are not listed, though an African American map has been added from another source."

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Maps Of American Ancestries