Birth Name: Mia Abagale Tallarico
Place of Birth: Lebanon, New Hampshire, United States
Date of Birth: December 22, 1978
Ethnicity:
*37.5% British Isles (English, distant Welsh)
*25% Armenian
*12.5% Italian
*12.5% German
*12.5% Polish
Mia Tyler is an American actress, model, public speaker, and advocate. She is the daughter of musician Steven Tyler (born Steven Victor Tallarico) and actress and model Cyrinda Foxe (born Kathleen Victoria Hatzikian/Hetzekian). Among Mia’s half-siblings are actress/model Liv Tyler and musician Chelsea Tyler.
Mia’s father is of one quarter Italian, one quarter German, one quarter Polish, and one quarter British Isles (English, with distant Welsh) ancestry. Mia’s mother was of half Armenian and half British Isles/English descent.
Mia’s paternal grandfather was Victor Alphonse Tallarico (the son of Giovanni Tallarico and Panta Olga Constanze/Constance Neidhart). Giovanni was born in Cotronei, Catanzaro, Calabria, Italy, the son of Alfonso Tallarico and Stella Albi. Panta was born in New York, to German parents, Oscar Neidhart and Olga Keitzman/Kitzman/Kitzmann/Kietzmann.
Mia’s paternal grandmother was Susan Ray Blancha (the daughter of Felix Carol Blancha, whose surname was originally “Czarnyszewicz”, and of Bessie June Elliott). Felix was a Polish immigrant, the son of Franciszer Czarnyszewicz and Apolonia Miluta. Bessie was the daughter of Robert J. Elliot and Edna Raynette Wheeler or Tibbits, and had English, and more distant Welsh, ancestry.
Mia’s maternal grandmother is Virginia Clayton (the daughter of John Preston Clayton and Edith “Eddie” Garland/S. Salmon). John was the son of George Emmet Clayton and Anna Josephine Thompson. Edith was the daughter of Elbert Taylor Salmon and Sallie B. Snead.
Sources: Genealogies of Mia Tyler (focusing on her father’s side) – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://worldconnect.rootsweb.ancestry.com
https://www.geni.com
Genealogies of Mia’s father (through Mia’s half-sister, Liv Tyler) – http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com
http://famouskin.com
Megan Smolenyak Smolenyak on Steven Tyler’s roots – http://www.huffingtonpost.com
Obituary of Mia’s paternal grandmother, Susan Ray (Blancha) Tallarico – http://www.findagrave.com
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