>>>>I think we STARTED the gene pool, didn't we? For instance Beane doesn't sound particularly Chinese in origin. It's all these Holtzers, Granors, Nedeljkovichs, Johengens, Nosonovskys, Ahns and Feldsteins, et al that are diluting the once pure English stock! {gdr}
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>>>Says McDonnell, of pure English stock.
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>>I haven't got a drop of English blood in me. I'm 3/4 Irish (McDonnell and Dunn), 1/4 Scottish-Shetland-Orkneys (Matherson & Merwick), 1/8 Norwegian (again, Matherson via Shetland), with a smidgen of Welsh.
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>Hang on. That's 1 and 1/8th even before the Welsh bit :-}


Not to mention the blarney ;-)