Birth Name: Christopher M. Settlemire
Place of Birth: Warren, Ohio
Date of Birth: May 9, 1985
Ethnicity:
*German, smaller amounts of English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh (father)
*Ukrainian, Czech (mother)
Chris Zylka is an American actor.
Born Chris Settlemire, he later took Zylka, his mother’s maiden name, as his stage name.
Chris’s father has German, as well as smaller amounts (to varying degrees) of English, Irish, Scottish, and Welsh, ancestry. Chris’s mother is of Ukrainian and Czech ancestry.
On his father’s side, Chris is the grandson of Ralph Duane Settlemire (the son of Martin Settlemire and Eva G. Kornprobst) and Wanda Lou Lattimer (the daughter of Oren Fay Lattimer and Virginia Cunningham).
On his mother’s side, Chris is the grandson of William Zylka and Patricia E. Rosko (the daughter of Michael Rosko, Jr. and Margaret A. Zimomra). Michael was born in Pennsylvania, of Czech descent. Margaret was also born in Pennsylvania, to Czech immigrants, Michael Zimomra and Helena Busmaj Cukalovcak.
Sources: Genealogy of Chris’s paternal grandfather, Ralph Duane Settlemire (focusing on his own father’s side) – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
Genealogy of Chris’s maternal great-grandmother, Margaret A. Zimomra – http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com
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