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From: "Larry Hayer" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Inference from Eye Color?
Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 15:57:35 -0400
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WWI draft registration records show eye color as do other military records.
This only applies to male ancestors, but it's another clue.

Larry

On 11/1/08, <> wrote:
>
> >So I don't even know if that paternal grandmother had just
> >one or two of the dominant brown eye gene alleles.
> ---
>
> Obviously eye color inheritance is much more complicated than once
> thought. But just curious, did this grandmother have any children
> who had very light colored eyes? You can often tell by individual
> photographs. You may even be lucky enough to have photos of
> that grandmother's parents.
>
> Sometimes I can't tell my baby pictures from my sister's until I look
> at the eyes.
> Kathy J.
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