[NavyCanDo]

My Dad’s side is Scots-Irish and my Moms side is German Swede - yet all of the family has dark brown hair and a Mediterranean type of skin. On a trip to Mexico back in the 1960’s, border agents gave my parents a hard time, thinking my little brother was a Mexican boy they were sneaking across. I still kid him about it to this day. On that same trip we had one of those photos on a donkey cart taken, and in the black & white photo, with those sombreos on that they make us where for the picture we did look Mexican

[angcat]

I’m a pale Sicilian.

[exdem2000]

My Great grandfather had red hair and blue eyes, he was Italian.

[PistolPaknMama]

My Dad’s family is of Irish descent and have the same dark features you describe. When I researched the family name I discovered they descended from the “black irish” which resulted from the spanish invasion of Ireland. That might explain your family’s dark features as well. Worth researching, if you’re curious.