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Based on some thorough research a couple of years ago, my ancestry breaks down like this:

Swedish 25%
Scottish/Unknown 15.625%
German 12.5%
Polish 12.5%
Ukranian 12.5%
Slovenian 12.5%
Prussian 6.25%
Hessian 6.25%
Irish 3.125%

So I'm basically of celtic/teutonic/slavic extraction. People often assume that I must have some southern European ancestry because of my dark hair color, but I don't. I'm rather fair-skinned.

I don't know much about beard history in my maternal lineage. My mother has no brothers and her mother's brother (my great uncle) died when he was in his twenties. He was clean shaven in the one picture we have. My male ancestor's are a mixed bag. My mother's father grows a very full Sean Connery-esque beard (though it's a shame he's only done so twice in my lifetime), My father has always had a goatee since I was a little kid. His sides never filled in enough to grow a full beard, or so he claims. His brother is the same way. My father's father was always clean shaven and died when I was a little kid.

My brothers take more after my father. They both have sparser coverage than I. They both tend towards goatees or variations on moustaches. One of my brothers likes to kid me that I must have leeched all the beard genes out of the family. I guess I got lucky, in that regard.