Pride I suppose. As far as I can tell, or as far as I have been able to trace family roots, I had a whatever great grand father who settled in the Carolinas from the North of England, served in the Yamasee Indian conflict, (1715?) and from there I lose the trail up to my great grand father, a Kansas farmer. This is my dads side. Moms side was Irish, part of them came over to flee the potato famine. Others more recent. So a mix of English / Irish I suppose. As far as I know, nothing nefarious or shameful in the family tree. But who knows. Might get one of those genetic things done one day. Or DNA or whatever that test is called. Out of curiosity. According to an old family legend, a remote ancestor, from whom we are directly descended, was a King of some Irish county of kingdom in the Dark Ages. Deposed and killed by the Northmen (Vikings).