Redheads in Poland - How many?

Why not?


Do I look bored?

no
carrot? lol

or carrot-top?

whatever you like

I'm hungry...

... for knowledge...

... about carrots... or at least hair the colour of carrots.

my beard is orange,hair is mix of dark brown blonde and red.
it's usual in my family.we all look like freaks.

i know a few Americans who have black hair and dark brown with red beard... with Irish heritage...

Just to return to something Beckski mentioned on page 1:

What about the dying of hair to have a reddish tinge?
I'm not neccesarily talking about accidents with dye resulting in gingerness!
I'll save blonde/dark/pink/blue/green dyed hair for another occasion.

Very common at henna parties I believe.

I only did it on a temporary basis, for last year's holiday season. I wouldn't keep a reddish tint on my hair permanently.

i got Irish heritage too.From 1908.

my girl had green hair color once.she looked like Shrek.I told her that.Now I wish I kept my mouth shut.

Must be descended from Irish - there's lots of people like that here.

I know the Irish used to move abroad a lot in the past, like many Poles do now,
but there are gingers all over Europe, and there are even occasional traces of redness of hair in Japan (maybe that's the Ainu).
Udmurts are one of the Finno-Ugric peoples in Russia, somewhere east of the Volga.
They have a relatively high percentage of redheads, and I doubt any Irish settled there ever.

I've known several red headed polish people around Krakow.
-Ramsey

Ah but sure the Paddys are everywhere!

You are of course right - The red head gene is everywhere.

The MC1R gene is responsible for red hair...

Interestingly, this news item came up today.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20071025/tsc-science-neanderthals-us-e123 fef.html

Not too sure on the Polish connection though!

As for Poles in the UK, I've not met any with red hair.

gdansk had a large scottish community at one point - i would imagine a genetic fingerprint was left

yes... thats what i said

just back from warsaw and tryied hard to leave a genetic print there (but with no luck lol) off 2 gdansk for a few days in a couple o weeks and will try even harder 2 leave a genetic print there lol

ps- i am scottish with strawberry blond hair

i wish you luck in your epic quest :-)

ROFL - I gotta remember that one - grant it us girls can't attempt to "leave" a genetic print while visiting a place ;)

Unless you stay there for a very long time.

"What about the dying of hair to have a reddish tinge?"

I put a "touch" of red in my hair for about a decade or so...love it... :)

thank you :-) i shall let u know the end result lol

In the not so distant future, I plan on lending some more redheaded genes to the Polish gene pool :) My boyfriend is Polish, and I'm American, but my family is from Ireland on both sides of the family tree, and I've been blessed with ruddy tresses :)

me but im not polish though ...

Me too