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From: "Judy" <>
Subject: RE: [PALANCAS] WELSH MOUNTAINS ???
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2004 12:53:28 -0500
In-Reply-To: <EAB64832-67B5-11D8-A4B0-0003938F95FE@verizon.net>


From what I remember of Genetics, 2 blue-eyed people can't have a
brown-eyed child.

-----Original Message-----
From: Debbie [mailto:]
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2004 12:13 PM
To:
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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