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Subject: Re: [DNA] Re: eye colour and racial descent
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 22:28:07 EST




Uhh...my brother has one hazel eye and one very light green eye??? We had a
cat once with two different eye colors. His sisters have brown eyes. My
father's eyes are hazel, my mother's dark brown. Both my parents' lines
have eye colors of all varieties if pictures and descriptions in draft cards,
military documents, and other descriptions are any indication -- not to
mention person-to-person observation of aunts and uncles.

My children's father has a similar motley contribution; he and his siblings
have brown eyes. His mother has blue eyes, etc., etc.. Our children all
have brown eyes, but I suspect if one of them married a blue eyed person who
had blue eyed parents, they could easily come up with a blue eyed offspring.

What I know about my back ground (both parents in the Ozarks in the 1850s) is
that it is a motley mix of real early VA settlers, early MD settlers on both
sides close to Chesapeake Bay, early NC settlers (probably via VA), Quakers
and Germans who came through PA and down the Shenandoah to NC or TN, and a
bunch of unknown wives, particularly amongst those who were pushing the
frontiers in VA/TN/NC, at least one of whom was probably an Indian (ggg
grandfather Powhatan Choate!) and I have many of the popular Melungeon
surnames. I suspect that with the proper mate I could have produced almost
any eye color in my children.

I am always interested in those of you have more "pure lines", just as people
who know I am interested in genealogy are always disappointed that I couldn't
help them do Ellis Island research to save my life -- well maybe, save my
life, but...

Best Regards,
Janet Hunter

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