# Talk:Sweeney Schriner

David Shriner(Schreiner)is certainly not a Russian name! Nearly 600.000 Volgagermans lived in Saratov and vicinity. Is he not one of them? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 57.66.70.225 (talk • contribs) 

I haven't found anything on his ancestry yet so cannot say anything about it.  Which is a shame, as I had also taken note of his name not being remotely Russian. Resolute 15:03, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
haha, we can't ask him right now - who he was. But i think important is what he was thinking of himself, who he is. Maybe he was a german, maybe a jew (jews prefer to give a name David more often than germans). I know germans in Russia, they asimilated into Russians, so they are germans only by genes. But i think it doesn't matter, i think he was russian. Why? Because all people in Russia are russians by their nationality (russians are separating in 2 words - russkye and rossiyane). Russkye means ethnic russians and rossiyane means people from Russia, speaking russian, often are russians by culture, but they are not russians by ethnicity. Or sometimes they have their own culture living in Russia or even their language which they use together with russian language.
By the way, i know about 10-12 people with not-russian surnames, like german surnames or jew, but they always are saying they are russians and they don't like if you will tell them - hey, but you don't have russians surname or/and name.
So i think we can make fantasies about who was he, but if you have lot of time to spend on speculations, then get a life.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.252.76.134 (talk) 22:13, 6 June 2013 (UTC) 
By the way, i have a traditional german name, but i haven't anything common with germans, my family is all russians, but parents loved this german name, so i got it. So maybe someone in the future will try to call me german.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.252.76.134 (talk) 22:17, 6 June 2013 (UTC)