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To: crazykatz
The Welsh are not Jews nor are they middle eastern

I wonder. My husband, who is supposedly mostly German and some English, looks very Mediterranean. A Moroccan asked him recently if he was Arabic. When I mentioned my genealogical research to our family doctor, he mentioned that my husband looks a lot like some of his Welsh immigrant patients who are working here. I just thought that was very interesting.

37 posted on 08/29/2002 1:26:01 PM PDT by twigs
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To: twigs
English And Welsh Are Races Apart
39 posted on 08/29/2002 2:54:34 PM PDT by blam
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To: twigs
>looks a lot like some of his Welsh immigrant patients who are working here. I just thought that was very interesting.

It is very interesting. The Brits make a big thing about the "darker and smaller" people seen around Cornwall, Wales and Brittainy as being Celts.

I checked this out when I was there studying Celtic History at Oxford. Someone had studied the subject and detemined these people were simply the result of some intermixing with survivors the very many Mediterranean based shipwrecks off Penzance, the Isles of Scilly, and the British and French western seacoasts in general.

(BTW, only some British based Celtic scholars insist these people are the only Celts in Britain. The far larger Celtic communities in continental Europe do not see eye to eye with the Brits on many things Celtic. Not even the Irish agree with the Brits, for the Irish do not look like these residents of Cornwall and Wales, some from Isle of Man, etc. When I was at Trinity College Dublin studing the Celts, if you ask the man on the street the meaning of "Celtic" you often hear "Catholic". As in the Holy Celtic Church of Ireland. {ggg}. )

46 posted on 08/29/2002 5:23:13 PM PDT by LostTribe
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