Oh... might as well add that my parental grandfather (origin Southern Russia) and my maternal great-uncle (origin Belarus) both have red hair. I think I and my brother wound up with recessive genes-- we've got brown hair (mine's darker than his) but grow reddish beards.
"Oh... might as well add that my parental grandfather (origin Southern Russia) and my maternal great-uncle (origin Belarus) both have red hair." So, where did you get your red-headed genes?
Maybe from some of the folks in the article below?
The Curse Of The Red-Headed Mummy
(They were all over Russia and Belarus in ancient times)Ref: Victor Mair, The Tarim Mummies.