Hi Ada, Interesting lineage and food for thought. My father and I and my son have all been taken as not being entirely white!! It could be our olive skins plus good sun tans or it could be............... Dale ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ada Ackerly" <aackers@alphalink.com.au> To: <aus-vic-gippsland@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 2:35 PM Subject: Re: [AVG] Marjorie DUNN > Hello Dale, > > I come from a family with Indo Chinese, Malay, Spanish, French, > Balinese, several English counties (including Cornish.) > > Colouring varies amongst cousins, second cousins, third cousins. Some > look Spanish with a very light olive skin. > Some are blond and blue-eyed. Some have jet black hair, some red-brown. > But one third cousin (with a blond blue-eyed sister was a very dark, > swarthy complexion with black curly hair... just like a Malay (4 > generations back!) He is the only one out of dozens of these cousins > with this colouring, and it was a puzzle to the family until they came > to a family reunion and saw the family tree set out. > > I imagine there would be some who would speculate that he had a > different father to his siblings. Certainly his parents were not dark. > Genetics is a funny thing. > > Regards Ada > > > D. I. wrote: >> Hi Lynne, >> >> Interesting thought. I knew Grandma Dunn before she died in 1962. She was >> also considered "at odds" with her other siblings. Also when my father >> wanted to join the Masonic Lodge, he was told he'd be refused because of >> "dark blood". This didn't stop him, btw! My grandma also spoke about her >> "dilly bag" [a string bag used by aboriginal women] instead of her >> "handbag". There were little things passed down through the family that >> now >> make sense as I try to find her biological mother.She was by no means >> "dark-skinned" but she had olive skin. Grandma went to her grave taking >> many >> secrets with her, unfortunately. >> >> Dale >> In rain-soaked Airlie Beach, Whitsunday. >> >> > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Hi there, I should have added that the aboriginal gene is "recessive", that is, it is diluted with each generation of non-aboriginal admixture. But the Malay / Indian etc can recur in any generation, regardless of how far removed from the original ethnic person, as was the young man I referred to. Regards Ada D. I. wrote: > Hi Ada, > > Interesting lineage and food for thought. My father and I and my son have > all been taken as not being entirely white!! It could be our olive skins > plus good sun tans or it could be............... > > Dale > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ada Ackerly" <aackers@alphalink.com.au> > To: <aus-vic-gippsland@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Monday, January 14, 2008 2:35 PM > Subject: Re: [AVG] Marjorie DUNN > > > >> Hello Dale, >> >> I come from a family with Indo Chinese, Malay, Spanish, French, >> Balinese, several English counties (including Cornish.) >> >> Colouring varies amongst cousins, second cousins, third cousins. Some >> look Spanish with a very light olive skin. >> Some are blond and blue-eyed. Some have jet black hair, some red-brown. >> But one third cousin (with a blond blue-eyed sister was a very dark, >> swarthy complexion with black curly hair... just like a Malay (4 >> generations back!) He is the only one out of dozens of these cousins >> with this colouring, and it was a puzzle to the family until they came >> to a family reunion and saw the family tree set out. >> >> I imagine there would be some who would speculate that he had a >> different father to his siblings. Certainly his parents were not dark. >> Genetics is a funny thing. >> >> Regards Ada >> >> >> D. I. wrote: >> >>> Hi Lynne, >>> >>> Interesting thought. I knew Grandma Dunn before she died in 1962. She was >>> also considered "at odds" with her other siblings. Also when my father >>> wanted to join the Masonic Lodge, he was told he'd be refused because of >>> "dark blood". This didn't stop him, btw! My grandma also spoke about her >>> "dilly bag" [a string bag used by aboriginal women] instead of her >>> "handbag". There were little things passed down through the family that >>> now >>> make sense as I try to find her biological mother.She was by no means >>> "dark-skinned" but she had olive skin. Grandma went to her grave taking >>> many >>> secrets with her, unfortunately. >>> >>> Dale >>> In rain-soaked Airlie Beach, Whitsunday. >>> >>> >>> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AUS-VIC-GIPPSLAND-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >