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Then your mother either never studied Gregor Mendel's theories in high school, or forgot what she had supposedly learned.

My mother probably never studied such theories in HS back in the late 1930’s. I think she was most going on the old wives’ tales and assumptions at the time that a dark haired and brown eyed woman was not going to have a blonde haired and blue eyed child.

What is the birth order position of your blonde niece?

She was their second child. She was born 5 years after her older sister and less than two years before her younger brother.

Oh Mendel's theories were almost 100 years old, when your mother was in high school, so I would find it peculiar, if she was never taught about genetics and his theories, in the '30s.

I would have bet on the fact that your blonde niece wasn't the first born ( thank's Mendel...your theories still work! ) and I was right.

I do well, re members of my own family, because I can go back many generations. With others, I can only do the most basic of figuring; yet it does still hold up. :-)

Look at your own family, now, and see if you can make a chart of who had what hair & eye color and if it adds up. It's fun. :-)