My older SIster is a red head...I have often wondered.....

Dids I can't believe they've used it as a title for the show!

Nooooooooooooo?

Do you ever watch Maury on Living TV?   There was one dad on there that denied his baby because it was born disabled and he insisted he couldn't possibly father a disabled baby     he was still shouting the odds even after the DNA test proved he was the daddy 

my cousin was a random redhead ...........we never questioned it at all. At a funeral a few weeks ago where all the family we haven't seen for years got together, I learnt where it came from 

Where??!! Spill!

I love Maury! I've even joined a facebook group that hopes that one day Maury can actually tell someone they ARE the father

Dontcha just love Jezza!

Kind of reminds me of those stories about white couples giving birth to black babies.

The thing about things like hair and eye colour though, as far as I know, is that genes can skip generations. So it doesn't necessarily mean that the wife has been unfaithful by any means. 

Exactly I watched a programme a while ago about the genetics of the British Isle and a huge proportion of us carry the ginger gene...I can't remember the exact figure, think it might have been about 25% of us or even more

I have dark brown hair, but if I grow out my beard it begins to turn gingerish.

I have 2 sisters , 4 brothers, with brown eyes, i am the only one with green eyes

I have twin cousins, one has dark features and brown eyes, the other ginger hair and pink blue eyes. Neither parents have ginger hair. Hmmm.

Oh

I am the only one in my family with blue eyes... brother, parents & grandparents all have brown or hazel eyes.

Tis cos the blue eye gene is a recessive gene..  so my parents must have both carried it... but alongside a brown or hazel gene which overpowered it... so they had brown/hazel eyes.

I got the blue one off both of them...  two blue  = blue eyes.

tis more complicated with skin & hair colour though...   its a combination of genes.

I've never understood why being ginger can be a reason for ridicule..

Often  2 straights can make a gay?

Some people just love to have a scapegoat

My family has the ginger gene, but not all of us show it. Mother's hair was reddish (she dyed it blonde) I'm naturally mousey blonde, one brother is dark and the other is ginge!
I'm jealous, I would love to have flaming red hair.

Ain't that the troof!

well .............it's all a bit scandalous really. My nan born in 1890 had two illegitamate children - to the same father but he was married and divorce was nigh on impossible especially if like the father you were Irish Catholic (that's the red hair connection). She went on to  marry someone else and had my Dad. For many years I just assumed my dads brother and sister were full blood relatives. 

Things come out over the years .......................i guess it was pretty shameful in those days. Actually it makes me really proud that she loved and kept her two kids even though she was pretty much ostracised by a lot of folks.

My nan lived till 99 years old - my Dad died aged 58. The funeral was for her son he died aged 90.