Are you REALLY Celtic?

[kilted in seattle]

I can't quite tell. There isn't much difference in big toe/2nd toe length on my feet. But it's hard to tell because I've broken one of my big toes a couple of times and it sits a bit cock-eyed.

Definitely don't have wide feet. I'm about a 10.5, normal width. Stupidly high and long arches. However, I can pick things up with my feet and my normal body temp is a bit low.

Other than being a caucasian with brown hair and green eyes, I can't say much about my heritage. My last name (herring) is fairly common in the UK, many of Her Majesty's former colonies and South Africa (was S. Africa ever a British colony?)

However. I've had people from Russia, Scotland, Ireland and Germany assume I was a native of their countries. The Russian actually started off in Russian without bothering to check whether I spoke the language. This was in the US.

I am 190 pounds of all-purpose, generic white boy. In a Kilt.

[Pleater]

There is the book, Blood of the Isles by Bryan Sykes which has two ISBN 0 593 05652 3 and 978 0 593 05652 3.

It details the collection and analysis of DNA from various populations around the countries of Britain and Ireland and connects the migrations of mitochondrial and Y chromosome DNA around the world to various surnames.

Glancing at it earlier today I discovered that the Viking inheritance is not just the distortion of the hand, but also blood Group A - which I have.

The basis of the work is the Oxford genetic atlas project - and it mentions there is a website at www.bloodoftheisles,net - though I don't know if it is still there.