Are you a red-head, or is/was your mother a red-head?

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Is there redheadedness in your family?
Are you a redhead? 25%  25%  [ 10 ]
Do you have a redheaded mother? 25%  25%  [ 10 ]
Do you have a redheaded father? 3%  3%  [ 1 ]
Do you have redheaded siblings? 15%  15%  [ 6 ]
Do you have redheaded extended relatives? 33%  33%  [ 13 ]
Total votes : 40

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11 Apr 2007, 12:54 pm

Kind of a funny experience for the hubby --

My husband had to go to a middle school meeting (I was out of town) for my son who will be entering middle school in the fall. This meeting was for all the special ed parents, to discuss how they will will handle any special needs.

Aside from being the only male parent, my husband noticed that almost every mother there was a red-head. Granted, not all the mothers there were mothers of kids on the autism spectrum, but still, it was a fairly interesting phenomena (I, too am a redhead).


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11 Apr 2007, 12:57 pm

Neither of my parents have red hair although they both carry the gene. Both parents have redheaded siblings. There is red in my hair and I have Auburn headed cousins. The next generation is full of redheads again regardless of the parents' hair color just as it was in my mother and father's generation.



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11 Apr 2007, 12:58 pm

My mum is a redhead. It's almost definitely just a coincidence, but it's quite an amusing one nonetheless. =]



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11 Apr 2007, 1:02 pm

I'm a redhead but it comes from a bottle. Nobody in my family has red hair.


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11 Apr 2007, 1:13 pm

no redheads in my family



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11 Apr 2007, 1:17 pm

Not a single person in my family has red hair.



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11 Apr 2007, 1:23 pm

I'm a redhead. My great something was a redhead. My grandparents had black hair and hadfive redheads.



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11 Apr 2007, 1:30 pm

No redheads in my family, but I always wished that I was a redhead. I did used to dye it, but it's too much of a pain to keep up with so I don't anymore.



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11 Apr 2007, 1:32 pm

So that makes 4 aunts and uncles redheads, 2 cousins, some great whatevers redheads. i'm a darker shade though, sorta golden in places. theres a pic on the boards somewhere...



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11 Apr 2007, 1:56 pm

My father was a redhead before he went bald. :P


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11 Apr 2007, 1:58 pm

and my dad has black hair, but he's always had goldish red in his beard. (i've neer seen him without one)



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11 Apr 2007, 2:05 pm

Um... you can't vote "None of the above." So you're not going to get a very realistic overall picture.



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11 Apr 2007, 2:06 pm

JonnyBGoode wrote:
Um... you can't vote "None of the above." So you're not going to get a very realistic overall picture.


S'all right. there isn'tan option for extended fmaily,family and myself, either. But it's ok. :)



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11 Apr 2007, 2:31 pm

Adopted so I don't know. All I know is my parents had black hair, I have brown. My mom is Indian and my dad was "North European Stock" which I assume to Norwegian (my looks). I imagine that I have red on my paternal side but have no idea. There are/were redheads in my in-laws' family. My son, weirdly enough is a strawberry blonde, red head when he hatched.



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11 Apr 2007, 2:33 pm

My Mom is a red-head. I've dyed my hair dark red before,but my hair is naturally VERY light blonde.


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11 Apr 2007, 4:22 pm

red hair rocks!

sometimes i get red hair envy. (i have a rather uninteresting shade of dark brown).