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Birth Name: Taylor Alison Swift
Birthplace: Pennsylvania, United States
Date of Birth: December 13, 1989
Race or Ethnicity: German, English, Scottish, Welsh, French, Italian, Irish, Dutch, Swedish
Her dad has an ancestor called Mary J Gwynn, born in N. Carolina, to Irish-born parents Francis Gwynn and Susan Davis. Swift has an ancestor named Charles G. Baldi who was born in Italy in 1860. Another ancestor named Nicolas Knapp was born in England in 1592. She has other ancestors that trace their roots back to England in the 1500s. Through one of her father’s ancestors, Charles Douglass, there is a very very distant ancestor called Olof Thorsson, born in Offerdal, Jamtland, Sweden. Married to an ‘Elice’ also from Sweden.
Taylor’s mother’s mother, Marjorie Moehlenkamp, born Oct. 5th 1928 was of German ancestry. Swift also has a French ancestor named Lewis de Reynaud who was born in the 1600s and a Dutch-American ancestor named Ariantje Emans who was born in 1733.
Source:
- http://www.conovergenealogy.com/famous-p/p384.htm
- Lewis de Reynaud
- http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/23763513/family?cfpid=1424918447
- http://www.conovergenealogy.com/famous-p/p1722.htm#i86100
- Catherine Swick
- http://www.conovergenealogy.com/ancestor-p/p174.htm
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Haha. (:
So, all of this comes from her dad’s side. I can’t trace her mom’s heritage on the site we used to find her dad’s.. We know she has Scottish from her mom, but that’s it.
They come from Pennsylvania, right? Aren’t there a lot of German-Americans there?
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touche Paul
(i cont spell touche i kno)
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Giada de Laurentis is like, an eighth English, though.
Her grandmother was half English half Italian according to wikipedia.
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Southern Italians are likely to have some Arab blood as well as northern African blood. And yes a lot of Northern Italians have blonde hair and fair skin.
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click on people and culture and youll find it:)
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dark hair and features
http://photography.nationalgeographic.com/photography/image-collection/
and giada de laurentis is from Rome and has pale features and is pure Italian
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giada_De_Laurentiis
(the Sicilian girl picture you may have to flip through a bit)
southerns not ALWAYS dark
northerns not always light
:D
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Here’s something from Yahoo!
http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20090206103337AA3RgbH
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And I guess she could be part italian from the South, her italian parent was born so many years ago. She’s mostly irish :)
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I don’t think southern italians are mixed with african. Just because they have dark features doesn’t mean they have african blood running through their veins.
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Erm… not really, Nathan. Northern Italy borders Germany, Switzerland, France etc, which all have high percentages of blondes. The weather is a lot colder too, thus pale skin and light hair. I think I read somewhere that the original Romans were blonde too, and Southern Italians are mixed with African. Not sure if that’s true, though. But yeah, Northern Italians don’t have to have English in them to be blonde/blue-eyed.
Being blonde and blue-eyed is more common in Germany and Switzerland anyway.. and they’re right beside Italy.
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