Listers: Having read a numer of e-mails regading the proper hair color of the Irish, I'd like to arrogantly and pompously remind the writers who appear to be in the heat of ire that the accepted root stock for the "Native Irish" is (are?) Celtic. These people migrated from eastern Europe, maybe as far east as the Indus River. Who Knows? In any case they were believed to be fair of skin and red of locks. In New Testament times Turkey was known as Galatia (sic), another spelling for Gaul or Celt. and a country that is near the Indus and Danube Rivers. There are tribes located in central Turkey who are light of skin and red of hair even today. There are some red headed Spanish in the Northwest of Spain. If you are climbing your family tree and hair and freckles are important to you, so be it, that is your business (unless you are also a social or cultural anthropologist). Lets just be nice and civil to one an other, please. Very Sincerly, Bill Golden, [email protected]