Susan, I thought Southern Spain had always had Africans- called Moors - influence and race blending. They do today- the Moorish- or today, the Muslims in Southern Spain and France today with African Roots are a fast growing group and their political influence was what caused the Spanish and French to pull troops out of Iraq. Morocco has darker skinned folk also. A brother of Great Great Grandad Hatchett stayed in Mexico, after the U.S.- Mexico war, 1845, and a great great Granddaughter of him left Mexico City to live in Morocco. The Persian ships from the Black Sea and Constantinople Trade routes went around Spain and France to England at least 1000 years before Christ. These migrations included Angles, Jutes, Saxons,Huns, Goths and Visigoths and many others who moved into Celtic England. Recently they have found red headed not orientals buried in Russia- the site was kept secret by Communist Russias but National Geographic finally pick up photos of the hair of the desert mummified bodies. Did you get the note about the Mulengeon Families with Scotch- Irish names and roots and other blood in Carolinas, Tennessee, Kentucky, and Arkansas? Try http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/Melungeon/2000-07/0964177788 Also, Freedom, Oklahoma was started by former slaves who had some Indian blood- not by us Anglos. Charles Wyly On Thu, 3 Feb 2005 12:36:06 -0800 Rick and Susan <rickandsusan@swva.net> writes: > The term Scotch-Irish is an American invention for the Scots that > moved to > Ireland for nearly a century & then moved to America. So sez the > Scotch-Irish > mailing list administrator. > > The question I have in this discussion is about the skin color of > the Spanish. > Since they are Europeans, their skin color would not be much > different than the > rest of Europe. They also have Celts with very white skin. (The > Mexicans also > have the darker Indian skin colors of the tribes native to Mexico.) > I also understood the darker skin of Germans came from their Aryan > roots? And > then in most of Europe would include some Arab bloodlines from the > Moor's > invasions? > > Just my thoughts? > > Susan > > > > ==== TXERATH Mailing List ==== > --- Author Retains Copyright --- > -- Copyright 2005 Author -- All Rights Reserved > Post to List: TXERATH-L@rootsweb.com http://www.selfroots.com > Unsubscribe request To: TXERATH-L-request@rootsweb.com > ARCHIVES: http://searches2.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl > >