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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. :-)

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.

To be honest, I don’t know if she ever finished her senior year of HS. And back then a lot of girls often didn’t take more advanced math or science courses in HS, and I know she was math phobic, very bad at it, and girls were steered more to home-ec and secretarial type classes which I know she took because I have a couple of her home-ec notebooks with her handwritten recipes. Plus, she was a very talented signer, sang on local radio in her teens and studied opera and even was offered an audition at the Met. But after her father died, she went to work and right after WWII she met my dad and got married to him two months later.

Me? I can’t sing my way out of a wet paper bag but I can cook, but I also inherited my dad’s love of science and his mechanical skills. : ),

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.

Interesting. Thanks. I will have to read up on Mendel’s theories.