Are you REALLY Celtic?

[Jack Daw]

I don't need to take off my shoes as I've been looking at my feet for almost 50 years. My big toe on both feet is the same length as the second. My DNA also confirms that I am of Celtic origin. Certainly, I could have saved some money on the test. My recent ex-girlfriend's second toe was longer than her big and she claimed Irish heritage.

I don't know if this has any credence, either, but I also have heard that a Celt's body temperature is slightly less than the average 98.6F (oral). My normal body temp is 97F.

[auld argonian]

Red hair.

Toe checks out.

Body temperature 97.1.

okay....

Best

AA

[slohairt]

Hmm, my body temperature is slightly higher than average. Could be just an Irish thing though...

[SteveB]

I get my Celtic ancestry from my mother's side of the family. Mother, grandfather and great grandmother belonged to the long second toe club, along with the EEEE club. They all came from Northern Ireland. Both my mother and great grandmother had real short and wide feet. I inherited the narrow foot from my father "B" and the short from my mother "8" on a 6'1" male. My three inner toes are even, as were my father's and both grandfathers. My father's side came to America between 1620 and 1650 for the most part with some German and Irish mixed in to a bunch of English peoples. Family lore (not documented) is may patrilineal will go back to Clan Lamont (Brown(e).) Another interesting thing in our family is we were all born carrot tops. Mine was flaming red until puberty. Then it changed to all black. Now mostly salt and pepper with a little red here and there.
---- Steve

[MacDanar]

I don't know if this has any credence, either, but I also have heard that a Celt's body temperature is slightly less than the average 98.6F (oral). My normal body temp is 97F.

Score another one! I've run a less-than-average temperature since I was a kid. And I burn and freckle very easily. Got the reddish tinge to my hair too, but not enough to be anywhere near auburn, and not nearly red enough to sate J.T.'s appetite for redheads (but I guess I do OK anyway ).

[Big Paul]

My big toes are even shorter than my second toes, by a 1/4 inch!

[Phil]

And of course you've heard about the very shy girl who went to the doctor complaining about an itch between her toes. When he asked which toes she blushed and said her BIG TOES! Don't think she was Celtic though.

[Standard]

Hmm.... lower than average body temp.. Check. Wider feet.. Check. "Big" toes same length as the second toe.. Check. Some red in the beard... Check. Well, that sounds scientific enough for what I already knew.

In and amongst other things ancestors of Scottish, Welsh, Scotch-Irish, Norman, German, and American Indian orgins I do consider myself at least partly celtic in orgin. Think that being celtic for me is as much a mindset as an actual lineage after you get the basic American "heinz-57" mix going on for several generations!

On that note, I will get to wear my new kilt to our local Burns' night tomorrow evening.

[dowofbuchanan]

well my second toes are just over 1/4 inch longer than the first on both feet my 3rd toes are the same as big to im prehensile my feet are 5 inches wide (read flinstone by me exes) my body temp is between 96.5 and 97 and while i have brown hair and black beard i have a red goatee and moustache im also 6'1 at rest my hands look like im holding a beer can but i can if i try straighten them so i dont know about that however my grandmothers family tree project goes back to scotland so its all a mute point really i found a dna project for the dow males and its 189 for a 37 panel 148 for a 25 and 269 for a 67 panel which is really what i need for the money ? i also think that beer should look like coffee but that may ne besides the point

[Bob C]

I've never paid that much attention to other people's feet, so I assumed everyone's second toe was as long as the first. Mine are, like some others here, just a bit longer than the big toe.

I don't have the fat feet that some others here describe, however.