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. > >