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I looked into getting my blood tested a while ago, but can no longer find the link where I read the information... Do you by chance know the link I’m speaking of — it was to participate in some genetic study and I think I ran across the information here at FR?

Anyway, I was born with red hair which I was told fell out and then grew back in blondish as a young child and then has gotten progressively darker as time goes by, all with red highlights underneath though... Also, fair-skinned, freckled, short, and a wee bit stocky (I easily gain muscle-mass when working at it at all). My eldest daughter who looks the most like me has even more red in her hair than I. So, I’m guessing my ancestors were R1b somewhere along the line (I’m adopted, so I don’t know what nationality my ancestors are/were). This stuff is always so fascinating to me.

"I looked into getting my blood tested a while ago, but can no longer find the link where I read the information... Do you by chance know the link I’m speaking of — it was to participate in some genetic study and I think I ran across the information here at FR?"

Probably here.

"So, I’m guessing my ancestors were R1b somewhere along the line (I’m adopted, so I don’t know what nationality my ancestors are/were). "

Red hair is not exclusive to R1b. My neighbor is haplogroup I1a and he and his brother are red haired.

My mother’s family (Colman) has a history going back to the 1700s, and their wives’ families are equally interesting. The family name Williams is Welsh, I am told. We also have a strong concentration of Dutch ancestry, with some Belgian connections. I should get my brother to be tested... as I remember, it was for male descendants, wasn’t it?

"I was born with red hair (fire engine, not orange) which I was told fell out (at 6 months) and then grew back in blondish (white) as a young child and then has gotten progressively darker as time goes by, all with red highlights underneath though (only in my beard)... Also, fair-skinned, freckled, short, and a wee bit stocky (unusually stocky) (I easily gain muscle-mass when working at it at all).

FWIW, my family claims German but as far as I can guess is more "Prussian" as the greatest concentration of my rather rare last name is from the Grand Duchy of Mecklenburg. I have no idea where they came from before that.

When you arent fixed up for a night out do you have something of a...um...unusually youthful, almost childlike appearance?(rhetorical)

Despite middle age, without my beard, when going out I would get carded.

Somewhere along the line I read an account written by someone facing Prussian troops who described the ones he was facing as unusually stout and boyish in appearance...now I wish I knew where I had read that...