What is the ethnicity of the last name "Blackbird"?

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I am so out of touch with my heritage. I was adopted, so naturally, I'm naive, but I know my father's last name: Blackbird. I understand that this alone cannot tell me my full heritage, but is there a predominate culture connected with this surname?

Sorry, I'm always sort of embarrassed when asked of my ancestry. Any help would be appreciated.

Anonymous · Accepted Answer

Just putting the name into Ancestry gets a heap (over 3000) of hits in "U.S. Indian Census Schedules, 1885-1940"

But there is also a couple of hundred births in England 1837- onwards that have that name too.

http://www.freebmd.org.uk/cgi/search.pl

Can you find out any more information about your biological father and his family? Because if you can then you could trace them back (hopefully) and know for certain.

? · Answer

Without knowing what you look like or anything else, I would hazard a guess as to say that it would possibly be English (descriptive for someone that either raised blackbirds (unlikely) or had lots of them on their farm) or possibly Native American.

If you could find your original birth certificate, it would have the declared races of your father and mother.

Joyce B · Answer

Many Blackirds in the 1900 census are listed as Indian.  There are also Swedes, English, Scots, Canadian French and Canadian English.

How about your mother's maiden name?  That is also part of your heritage.

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What is the ethnicity of the last name "Blackbird"?

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