Are you REALLY Celtic?

[BoldHighlander]

If it helps with you being from Oz, I can guess with some certainty that you are descended from criminals, possibly Celtic criminals!

Oh man, I almost started a fist fight with a friend from Oz once when I jokingly called him a criminal (hey! how was I to know a grandmother of his had been sent there in chains?)

[Oldhiker]

You know what they say about Celts with little toes.........


small shoes


our physical charateristics come from all our ancestors, some charateristics being more dominant than others.

Y DNA testing will tell you if you male ancestors are Celtic, Norman, Saxxon, etc etc. That is one small part of your total genome. We all have 2 parents, 4 grandparents, 8 ggrandparents,16 gggrandparents. The math gets huge quickly and all these folks affect (or is it effect, none of my ancestors were good at grammar) who we are. So or health, appearance, personality, etc is hard to pin on any side of the family

my parents were of scottish & irish descent. Go to my grandparents and you get to add some german and english.

If your GGgrandfather on the paternal chain is Celtic and the other 15GGrandparents are a mixture of Saxxon, Anglo, Norman, Chinese etc.... should we still say we are celtic. We are only 1/16th celtic. We should celebrate the total mixture of who we are. (a lot more holidays)

[MacDanar]

My grandmother was born in Glasgow (Scotland, not Kentucky). And my second toes are also bigger than the big ones. So I feel secure in claiming that I am a Celt.

[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

[Jack Daw]

Viking! And, how cold does your blood run, Steve?

[SteveB]

Jack,
Supposedly 97.5. I haven't checked in decades. However I am good at dissipating heat, as my spouse thinks of me as a great hot water bottle.

Cold blooded = MOS 408, mine in Vietnam.

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 ).