[twigs]

Thank you very much for the explanation. Yes, it certainly did make sense. A true story: A number of years in the neighborhood from which I recently moved, a woman had her final child. All the other children favored either she or her hsuband. This one was definitely an Indian. Oops. Native American. She had a very puzzled husband and she herself was extremely upset. Fotunately, her husband believed that she had been faithful and she started asking questions of the older members of her family. Yes, there were rumors of such a marriage way back in the family tree. I found the story fascinating. Can traits manifest themselves after six generations? Thanks again for your help.

[Hillary's Lovely Legs]

That story sounds like my mother. My father is a brunette and my mother has black hair and very dark skin. Then comes along my brother and I, flaming redheads. My all my great grandmothers were redheads, but we couldn't explain my tiny dark mother. My great aunt finally confessed that my great great grandmother was an Ojibwe Indian and very dark.