Very good post.
My dad's side is Scots/Ulster/Welsh/Austrian.
[pre-German Austrian, specifically]
My mom's side is Scots and Danish.
They're both tall, blond, blue-eyed people, as is my sister.
I'm am shorter with red hair and the very distinctive greenish-gold eyes of my Welsh kinfolk.
"Archaelogically-speaking", if you compared me to them you'd think I had nothing to do with them.
I look more like my 3rd and 4th cousins than I do my own parents. I'm a genetic throwback to a certain branch of my Celtic roots but of Celtic stock, nonetheless but I imagine that "scientists" comparing me to my direct ancestors would classify me as "other".
[my parents already do, anyway]...;D
Nice to talk to a fellow Celt, you might also be interested to know that the majority of us have Type O blood, not exclusively but it is one of the Celtic markers. My whole family on both sides has type O Neg...Scots / Irish. You would be characterized as "Alpine" by the Tarrim Archeologists. Apparently living in the mountains promotes stockiness? I consider their approach little better than trash talk.
LOL