Half English (largely Listers from up near the Border), an eighth Gael (Clann Rós), a quarter norsk (Jacobsens from around Trondheim), and an eighth unaccounted for. But the Scottish eighth is where my name and most of my ethnic identity, such as it is, comes from. Though of course I identify more with both Esperanto culture and Seattle regionalism than with any European ethnicity. And since my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-uncle, Daniel Boone, was adopted by the Shawnee, I claim 1/256th collateral adopted Native American ancestry, and work sporadically on learning our local language, Lushootseed [properly dx^wlèšucid, but with a schwa where I typed è] (on the theory that if you're going to make a place your home you ought to learn the local language).

I'm not sure whether my ancestry influences my musical interests or tastes much or not.

Liland