General Chat

talking with eldest last night and she suddenly came out with these questions/facts.

Red heads are getting extinct arent you.

You are cos the redhead gene is disappearing.

Now where shes got this from I dont know but she is adamant its true.
Maybe its because I am a redhead and none of my three are they have all got hubbys family collourings two are like him and tiddler is his sisters colour.

Am I a dying breed???

Loads of redheaded/ginger children around here!!
Mind you, could just be one rampant ginger bloke trying to keep the gene alive!! lol

There are quite a few redheads in our area too.................interesting point though.

If the redhaired gene is a recessive one, then maybe the dominant genes will eventually eradicate it.

*worries that I have strained my brain*

xx

I'm a redhead and proud of it lol.....one of my three brothers is a subtle red head.....he has 3 kids....two dark and one blonde! .....so maybe she is right x

In our family , over the last hundred years or so, we have red-heads. Then we don,t, Years later, they come back.
I,m assuming we are talking about hair and not heads.
Best wishes Happy days

Harry lol yes hair.

My mums family are all red redheads except mum whos brown. When I spoke to her cousin for the 1st time on the phone trying to do some family tree stuff he said you havent inherited the hair have you.

My sister is brown I am redhead, dad is black hair although his beard grows through ginger?????

Mums brothers son is blonde her sisters children one is brown the other blonde.

And none of mums cousins children are redheads that I know about.

very wierd

Lots of redheads in my family....and check out the Branning family on East Enders lol

ugh! ginger chins lol

Twinkly

as a child when he had a beard I used to sit on his lap and play with his beard for ages , suppose it was a sort of comfort blanket to me.

it was on tv a few weeks ago...a man in the US has a website trying to get redheads together to make more redhead babies so that the gene doesn't die out

Karen

sorry Dawnie no offence meant....my uncle has a ginger beard....don't like him much so I guess it put me off! lol x

Twinky didnt take offence does look strange though dark hair ginger beard .

Like Karen said, there was something on telly a few weeks ago, think it was GMTV about the redhead being a dying breed.

i am one of 5 with red hair but only 3 of us had a red head child. im proud of my hair as is my daughter we both have long hair and we are always the first to be noticed in a crowded room.
long live the red heads!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

My youngest son has red hair so does his wife and two children.

Interestingly when I started researching my aunt told me her grandfather had red hair as did her sister (died before I was born). I am one of 11 children none of us have red hair but quite a lot of our children and grandchildren do.

Linda x

Yes it is a dying gene. Out of all the colours it is the most recessive gene. There was an article on one if the radio stations over here that featured a website that encouraged redheads to 'make babies' with other redheads to keep the gene alive!

Go to

http://www.rte.ie/tv/theafternoonshow/2008/0129/red533.html

www.redhedd.com


love T.x

our eldest is a red head she hates it an dyes it....i love it....her great grannie was so happy wen she was born wiv red hair...the only one in the family to have it for yrs!!!...youngest was jet black wen she was born very strange..xxxx

I was born with red hair but it quickly turned blonde, but then over the years it became darker - now grey. I do have very fair skin however

Stop putting "Rust Preventative" in the Hair Shampoos,Problem solved.**M**.:o))>pmsl.

Well said, Marion! *round of applause*

My 17-y-o daughter is a natural redhead; funnily enough, about half an hour ago we were talking about her growing her (dyed) hair, letting her beautiful natural colour make another appearance. She then said her boyfriend told a mutual friend recently, while discussing redheads, that he'd "never go out with a gingerhead".
Thankfully, she gave him a piece of her mind, and I hope he was joking! Otherwise, he's firmly in the doghouse!
x

*clips Merlin's ear*