In contrast with celebrations a century ago, the explorer is being claimed more aggressively, too, by people of Hispanic heritage.

Some studies seem to indicate young people of African heritage tend to have lower numeracy skills.

Ophir is used as a first and last name among people of Jewish heritage, and others.

It has population of around 5500 people of mixed heritage.

How many people of mixed genetic heritage are actually serving onboard the Enterprise?

"There are roughly 600,000 people of Polish heritage here," she said.

Health advocates are also urging people of Asian heritage to get tested.

For this reason status as "blanco" can be claimed by people who are not primarily of European heritage.

However, the town proper has almost no people of obvious African heritage.

It is more common in people of Jewish heritage.