What a fascinating post, mamelukesabre! It seems that you have an extremely interesting ancestral past. My own is varied, but not a wide-spread as yours, to be sure.
It is interesting that you mention a long, drawn-out puberty because both my brother and myself were the tortoises in the puberty race at school. In fact, I was always the shortest in class until about the ninth grade and then...ZOOM! I flew right past everybody, but I STILL had not reached full menarche. (I’m a girl, BTW.) I didn’t do that until 19 and ended up being a 6-footer. My brother, while always among the tallest in class, had a huge growth at around the same age, but continued to grow into his early 20s. He’s 6-6 now.
My ancestry is solidly northern Eurpean, with the largest components being Polish, German and Irish, with a little Swiss tossed in. Did I mention that while our parents are both light-brown haired, my brother and I are both redheads (auburn)? Everybody’s got some form of green eyes, with mine being the very lightest...ice green, almost clear. (None of my children, nor my brother’s have our coloring; our kids are all light brown or blonde, and all but one has blue eyes — one of mine has my very light green.)
Thanks again for an interesting post.
Regards,
PS: BTW...none of us are lactose intolerant. In fact, I LOOOOVE milk and the high-test whole kind, to boot!
Well congrats. It seems you are as wierd as me. when I go to my highschool reunion, nobody has a clue who I am. Every ten years it’s the same routine. THe same people say to me that they can’t believe how much I’ve grown or how big I am.
Well, for crimeny sakes, I haven’t grown for over 20+ years people!
What’s funny is my sister(who sunburns even worse than me and won’t admit it but has coarse redish hair and greenish eyes) has a daughter with tight curly white blond hair(coarse), darkish skin, and light blue eyes.
There’s no figuring it out. I give up. We are all mutts.
And I’ve gone around questioning everyone about their teeth. I’m the only one that has redskin teeth(chinese). I also seem to be the only one living that has the baby fine, baby-fuzz hair. Both my grandfathers had it, but nobody remembers if they acquired it after they got old and started to go bald, or if they had it their entire lives. I had it my entire life. Also, my extreme hairiness seems to go against the family grain. There are very hairy people in my family. BUt I’m so far to the extreme that I don’t match up with the rest of the relatives. Call me robin williams or sean connery. Maybe I got scotish in me too.