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From: "Janice B. Edwards" <>
Subject: Re: Blue Eyes
Date: Wed, 2 Dec 1998 12:29:19 -0500 (EST)


At 08:51 PM 12/1/98 +0000, you wrote:
>Esther,
>
>My grandfather's grandfather came from Wales. I have no idea what color
>his eyes and hair was, but my grandfather and some of his siblings had
>very blue eyes and many of their descendants have them today.
>Grandfather's hair was a light brown I believe and he and siblings had
>very high check bones,
>>>>>>"very high cheek bones" are also characteristics of the Native
Americans, Eskimos and, I believe, Chinese. I share the genes from the
Welsh and Native Americans - I assume if one could trace those back far
enough, they would have gotten then from the Eskimos and Chinese!
This one original comment from Esther is certainly interesting on just
how much email it has generated. Trace the DNA far enough back and we're
all related!
Janice
.Janice B. Edwards
Vice-President/Sec./Editor - WAGS (Welsh-American Genealogical Society)
http://www.ancestry.com/societyhall/pages/sochall-352
60 Norton Ave., Poultney, VT 05764-1011 USA
Director, Green Mountain College Welsh Heritage Program
http://www.greenmtn.edu - scroll down and click on "Welsh Program"
President/Membership & Publicity Secretary, Poultney Area St. David's Society
(no web site yet - mail - 60 Norton Ave., Poultney, VT 05764-1011 USA)

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