If Americans claim to have DNA from various countries, why do they have English surnames (Smith, Johnson, Cole, Wilkins, Collins, etc)?

[Anonymous]

I understand Americans have been fully English since the 1600s, but I think they're lying about having other ancestry.

Also, where are all the Americans of Scottish, Irish, Welsh, German, Dutch, Scandinavian, Italian, Spanish, French descent? Is America an "English-only" country or something?

Does this also indicate that Americans have at least one ancestor that fought on a battlefield (musket in hand) in the Revolutionary War, and served as a sailor on a warship in the War Of 1812? And that many still have this Puritan mindset? And that England is an American's only vacation place overseas? And that American women only pursue "cute English guys"?

[God_of_Thunder]

You realize there are tons of people in the US with different ethnic surnames, right?

Sure, there are plenty of Smiths and Johnsons, etc, but not everyone has English surnames. America isn't "English only" and hasn't been for a very long time. There are quite a few people of different ethnic backgrounds.

Even those people that do have English surnames aren't necessarily purely of English descent. Surnames can be carried over from different parents, regardless of ethnicity, depending on marriage, or lack thereof.

I'm primarily German, but about 110 years ago, my ancestor had children with an English woman. They never married, so the children took the English surname. It happens all the time. Those children eventually had children with an Irish person, and a Dutch person, among others, but the English name was passed down through the fathers. It happens all the time.

I can trace my family tree, on both sides, back before the colonization of North America, and I can assure you that I am not full blooded English, despite my surname.

Not all Americans have ancestors that fought in the Revolution, or the war of 1812. It really depends on when their ancestors arrived in the country. Hell, the Irish made up the largest number of immigrants during the mid-1800's, and there was a large influx of Italian immigrants around the turn of the 20th century.

Many people who are descended from those immigrants have no ancestors who fought in the Revolution, or the war of 1812. They weren't here yet.

[chicken_nugget24]

Because most Americans have European annstory. They have just settled to long so they classed themselves as Americans

[Smashingdoozy]

Most people have DNA from various countries. It's pretty normal

[NamerOfStars]

You are doing WAY too many drugs.

[Pterodon]

I’m actually Irish

[Asker]

Irish American?

[Pterodon]

Yes.