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November 3, 2020 edited November 3, 2020 in Suggest an Idea

There needs to be an option that tracks your Ethnicity based off of records. I have found multiple lines I did not know about like Native American, African, Russian and lots more. I would like to see the percentage of every ethnic background I have.

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  • A van Helsdingen
    A van Helsdingen ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 3, 2020

    Take a look at the "Pedigree Pie": https://partners.familysearch.org/solutionsgallery/s/gallery-profile/a2Rf10000079ntdEAA/00056

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  • Family Bible
    Family Bible ✭✭✭
    November 4, 2020

    ethnicity is very subjective

    and just because a person lives in a given country - doesn't in and of itself mean they have a given ethnicity.

    Ethnicity is different than country of origin or birth place etc - for which there are charts.

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  • Family Bible
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    November 4, 2020

    using the fan chart view - there is an option for country of birth

    https://www.familysearch.org/tree/pedigree/fanchart/KWH7-N5T

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    November 5, 2020

    I suppose U.S. records sometimes "officially" record something that can be interpreted as ethnicity (though I suspect it's most often labeled "race"), but European sources basically never do. Given that ethnicity is a self-determined category, this means that for many of us, ethnicity of our ancestors is completely impossible to determine. We can sometimes make pretty good guesses based on geography and linguistics, but even a very good guess is still a guess.


    (Ethnicity is a self-determined category closely related to, but very different from, language(s) spoken. Nationality is a totally-unrelated externally-imposed category based on geography and politics.)

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