At 4:00 PM -0500 3/27/01, rodreb wrote: >My Irish ancestors came over from Fermanagh to USA in 1830, James & Jane >(Keys) Robinson. His son, my line, had red hair and beard, so I'm assuming >he (or Jane Keys, her mother was a Johnston) did too. Consequently, all us >Robinsons in this line have red/auburn hair, including me.. don't know where >it came from, and those are English sounding surnames, so don't know about >that either! I always just assumed many irish did have red hair, it's what >you always hear and it's true in my family anyway. My dad had red hair; mom brown; me blond. I dont know if anyone has done a study t dtermine if hair color comes from one side or the other or both. Baldness comes from the female side. m ------------------------------------------------------------------ Jazz is freedom. - T. Monk http://www.panix.com/~cassidy