My grandma did a lot of genealogy stuff and traced part of our family line back to the Norman conquest in 1066 (the English side of my family). Otherwise, I'm German and Dutch. Part of my ancestry came to America pre-Revolutionary war, so I could join a Daughters of the Revolution group if I wanted to, and my dad's side moved to the US around the turn of the century.
Teenaged X-Files obsession + Bermuda Triangle episode + Self-led school research project = Atheist.