Editing Nick Carter (section)

==Early life==
Carter was born in [[Jamestown, New York]], where his parents, Jane Eleonora Schneck (née Spaulding, previously Carter) and Robert Carter (d. 2017),<ref>{{cite web|first=Rebecca |last=Rubin |url=https://variety.com/2017/music/news/bob-carter-dead-aaron-nick-carter-1202430980/ |title=Bob Carter, Father of Aaron and Nick Carter, Dies at 65 |work=Variety |date=2017-05-17 |access-date=2020-01-18}}</ref> owned a bar called the Yankee Rebel in [[Westfield, New York]].<ref name="Nick Carter Gets Buff">{{Cite journal |url=http://people.com/archive/nick-carter-gets-buff-vol-71-no-6/ |title=Nick Carter Gets Buff |first=Marisa |last= Laudadio |journal=[[People (magazine)|People]] |volume=71 |number=6 |date=February 16, 2009 |access-date=December 19, 2016}}</ref> His ancestry is primarily North and West European.<ref>{{cite news |title=Which Backstreet Boy is Jewish? - World News - Jerusalem Post |url=https://www.jpost.com/International/Which-Backstreet-Boy-is-Jewish-600093 |newspaper=[[The Jerusalem Post]]}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first1=Diane |last1=Jameson |title=The Backstreet Boys' MyHeritage DNA Results Are Back! |url=https://blog.myheritage.com/2019/08/the-backstreet-boys-myheritage-dna-results-are-back/ |website=MyHeritage Blog |date=28 August 2019}}</ref> Several years later, when Carter was four, the family moved to [[Ruskin, Florida|Ruskin]], [[Florida]], near [[Tampa]], and managed the Garden Villa Retirement Home, where they added to the family.<ref name="Bboys3">{{cite book |last=Netter |first=Matt |title=Backstreet Boys * Aaron Charles Carter |publisher=Pocket Books |date=January 1999 |location=New York |isbn=0-671-03539-8 |page=[https://archive.org/details/backstreetboysaa0000nett/page/8 8] |url=https://archive.org/details/backstreetboysaa0000nett/page/8 }}</ref>

Carter's siblings include [[Leslie Carter]] (1986–2012), [[Aaron Carter]] (1987–2022), Angel Carter (born 1987), and Bobbie Jean Carter (1982–2023).<ref>{{Cite book |last=Barnes |first=Corey |title= Backstreet Brother: Aaron Carter |publisher=Random House |date=January 1999 |location=New York |page=4 | isbn= 0-375-80193-6}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |url=https://people.com/bobbie-jean-carter-dead-at-41-8419971 |title=Bobbie Jean Carter, Sister to Aaron and Nick Carter, Dead at 41 |first=Nicholas |last= Rice |journal=[[People (magazine)|People]] |volume=|number= |date=December 23, 2023 |access-date=December 23, 2023}}</ref> He stated in the Fall 1999 issue of the teen magazine ''[[J-14 (magazine)|J-14]]'' that "...I have lots of siblings. My dad, who's an only child, got all the attention [from his parents when he was a kid], but he had to make friends. I could make friends, but I always knew I had someone to play with and hang out with."<ref>{{cite magazine |title=Nick Carter |journal=J-14 Presents Life Story |date=Fall 1999 |page=44}}</ref>