Dena wrote: > > > Two more genealogical truths: You can't determine relationships by > > how a name is spelled. And you can't determine ethnicity by the > > relative position of cheekbones or the color of hair! <g> > > > > "Richard A. Pence" <richardpence@pipeline.com> > > what about skin color Richard? Doesn't work either. The color tone difference between Arab and Apache isn't great enough for casual perception. Nor is the difference between "Northern Med" and Cherokee all that obvious. One of the enrolled Cherokee I happen to know doesn't look much like another enrolled Cherokee I know -- one's tall and sinewy, the other's short and brawny; one has chisled cheekbones, a nose that starts in his hair and a chin that hammers nails; the other doesn't; one could conceivably be called "copper-tone", the other has a faint tan. And, if memory serves, the one who looks most like the stereotypical Noble Savage has the least AmerInd ancestry. Cheryl singhals@erols.com