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From: "Georgia Sanden" <>
Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] WELSH MOUNTAINS ???
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:46:43 -0700
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Quite a few years ago, I took a college course on genetics.
One of the things they had discovered at that point that
surprised geneticists was that not all genes acted the same.
It depended on where they were on the DNA and what was
nearby. It's interesting that you used the same examples
the teachers did.

Eye color can appear anywhere in any generation, and,
although brown is dominant, but the lighter your skin, the
lighter your eyes are *likely* to be -- this is not a hard,
fast rule, though, just a trend. However, skin color is
limited to no lighter than the lighter parent, and no darker
than the darker parent. It isn't passed down the same way.
That's what the man said!
-Georgia
http://www.customxstitch.com
----- Original Message -----
From: "Debbie" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, 25 February, 2004 10:13 AM
Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] WELSH MOUNTAINS ???



To me, it's as simple as two brown-eyed people having a
blue-eyed
child--or vice versa.

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On Wednesday, February 25, 2004, at 12:03 PM, Cheryl wrote:

> Just my two cents worth,
> It has been proven that if your gr. grandparents had been
with a slave
> for
> instance then the off spring of that child could carry
down the
> generations
> into a gr. gr. grandchild. It has even happened to famous
people and
> they
> divorced before they did the research on their family line
and found
> there
> had been a chicken in the hen house so to speak, 2 or 3
generations
> before
> them.
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peggy K. Reeves" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 10:37 AM
> Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] WELSH MOUNTAINS ???
>
>
>> I don't know anything about the "Welsh Mountains", but I
would question
> the
>> sources of this article allegedly written by a Mr.
Ecenbarger.
>> Light-skinned parents do not give birth to dark-skinned
children. The
> skin
>> color of children will be a color somewhere in between
the hues of the
>> two
>> parents. Therefore, if light-skinned parents allegedly
had a
>> dark-skinned
>> baby (or vice-versa), someone better have a look at the
milkman or the
>> fellow next door!
>>
>> Generations that alternate in skin color between light
and
>> dark--that's a
>> good one!
>>
>>
>> Peggy Reeves
>> Burtonsville, MD
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: <>
>> To: <>
>> Sent: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 8:26 PM
>> Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] WELSH MOUNTAINS ???
>>
>>
>>> Hi Peg:
>>>
>>> The Welsh Mountains are famous locally as a place where
those who
>>> didn't
>> fit
>>> well with "traditional" society found a safe haven. The
mountains
>>> were
>>> especially known until recent times as a community of
interracial
>> families.
>>>
>>> About 10 years ago William Ecenbarger wrote the
following (I believe
>>> it
>> was a
>>> Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine article):
>>>
>>> "The mountains got their name in the 1700s when they
were settled by
> Welsh
>>> immigrants...Next came black slaves who were freed by
their Quaker
> masters
>> in
>>> the surrounding valleys, and them a few decades later,
came fugitive
>> slaves who
>>> rode the Underground Railroad from the South to freedom.
There were
>>> few
>>> places in America where the melting pot boiled more
intensely than
>>> here,
>> and the
>>> result was a society of ragged, rugged individualists
who lived in
>> interracial
>>> harmony while the more advanced societies below them
drew color lines
> and
>>> lynched and looted and burned. The skin coloring of
Welsh Mountain's
>> interracial
>>> families alternated between generations - light-skinned
parents would
> give
>>> birth to dark-skinned children. Their unconventional
lifestyles led
>>> to
> a
>> whole
>>> body of legends and myths about Welsh Mountain..."
>>>
>>> I can send you the whole article if you'd like. My wife
had family on
> the
>>> mountain and we're still researching them. As you can
imagine,
>>> "rugged
>>> individualists" don't leave much of a trail.
>>>
>>>
>>> Fred Kelso
>>>
>>> ______________________________
>>
>>
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