To think this is a very high number of redheads for one family?

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I'll start by saying it's my family and this is no slant on redheads BUT I did think the ginger gene was recessive?

My Mum has 11 grandchildren and x8 of them are redheads.

None of my mum's kids are actually redheads though.

My sister (darkhaired) and her redheaded partner have 5 kids - all ginger!
My brother (darkhaired) and his strawberry blonde partner have 4 kids - 3 of whom are redheads.
Myself and my partner are darkhaired, we have one darkhaired child and one bald one...

Just wondering if anyone else has a high number of redheads in their family?

It's unusual to have 100% of your kids being ginger if parents are darkhaired and redheaded right?

(my sister and SIL both refer to their children as ginger so it's not being used an offensive term here)

So my quarter Chinese blond DS will get darker!

My dad is red- headed, and my maternal grandad was too, although my mum isn't. I have brown grey hair and my sister has red, we have both produced children with red haired men, so out of the 4 grandchildren, 2 are red, one brown and 1 blond.

Although my dad is the reddest of his siblings, his sister has strawberry blond hair, and of our generation in that family, 5 out of 11 cousins are red.

Not necessarily Chipped. I don't think anyone can predict it. Not yet, anyway.

We have the opposite - my mum had dark hair but did have a red haired brother. Of me and my siblings we have 3 red, 3 dark and one blond.

My mum has 12 grandchildren - none of whom are red haired.

She has 6 great grandchildren with only one red head and she has two blond parents. Her mother (grandson's wife) has a brother also with a redhaired child so it could equally have come from her side rather than ours.

There aren't any blonds in my family, so I think the odds are against it!

Lweji - I have first hand experience of that. DS1 has always been dark haired. DS2 lost his baby fluff (dark) and became blond which he was all through childhood - proper blond not just fair.

Anyway we were at the optician - it was a new one and DS1 (14 at the time) had already been in a few times doing Contact lens trials. DS2 (13 at the time) was in for an appointment and the optician was enthusing about how much alike they were. I said I didn't see them alike at all. and she said it's because they have the same mop of thick dark hair and I turned to her to say "but DS2 is blond....." and then I looked at him and realise she was right - he was now dark haired and I hadn't even noticed. Went back and looked at his school photo from the previous year and yes, he was blond - maybe not quite so proper blond, but the young man standing before me was a definite brunette. :o

All our red heads are blue eyed - in fact all our family have blue eyes with the exception of my DS2 who has eyes of indeterminate colour (blue/grey/green/brown) DH has hazel and DS1 has bright blue with one brown fleck. In my family having blue is boring (though there are loads of different shades) and my mum was desperate to have a grandchild with brown eyes for a wee change :)

My mother has almost black hair and green eyes and my dad is mousy hair with blue eyes. My sister has darkish warm red hair, I have very dark auburn hair dark eyelashes and eyebrows and my bother has very dark brown hair. My sisters daughter is ashy blonde and my children are very dark brown with olive skin. My brother is due a baby soon and he is with a natural red head so we will see!

I do hate it when people say people who have ginger hair try to hide it when they dye it....so many people with brown hair etc dye their hair but they never get accused of trying to hide their natural colour!

myotherusername. That reminds me that my mum always insists hair curl can change at puberty too!

alteredimages it's the same here, my husband has olive skin and black hair with brown eyes and all of his family are like that so how we've had red haired children is beyond me. I have the typical skin that goes with red hair but I tan at the drop of a hat, one child has ginger hair and olive skin and the other has ginger hair and milk white skin.

Don't know if pictures are working now but this is what I have gone from - about 20 years between pics