"Ingrid Billings" <ingrid@cumorah.demon.co.uk> wrote in message: > Can work the other way my G.Grandfather was nearly 6.10 and I am 5.3 or > thereabouts. > And the genetics might cancel each other out. I'm 5'11"; I'm several inches teller than my maternal grandfather; and my great-great-grandmother (on my father's side) was 6' 5". Chuck Wolfram