I'm just wondering because people say I look like my GREAT GREAT GREAT grandma when she was a teenager???
2007-12-28 06:50:15 · 12 answers · asked by Baby 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Well, drop the word "exactly" and sure you can. Depends on what features you want to compare and how close the comparison has to be to be considered a match.
Is 5'2" close enough to 5'1" to be a match? Are brown eyes, but slightly different shades, a match.
To say - there is a great resemblence - then yes there certainly can be. To say look exactly like...no.
2007-12-28 07:01:35 · answer #1 · answered by Mind Bender 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
some years back, I organized a family reunion. ALMOST ALL of the cousins were 5th, 6th, etc.. people who had never seen each other before, raised in opposite sides of the country, so forth.
I wasn't the only one who was flat stunned, to see several of them who looked very much alike, had similiar gestures, etc. When you collect old family pics, you can often see the similarity.
I really get bugged with the questions here about "can you tell my nationality from this pic?". Appearance is not research, nor does is guarantee anything. But, looking like your distant relatives... yeah, that is totally common.
2007-12-28 16:19:41 · answer #2 · answered by wendy c 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is very possible you See it is hereditary for some one to look like a distant realative when they are young and when they are older
2007-12-31 15:51:59 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
not exactly because your genes have been shuffled much, and you're not their twin, but sometimes the specific genes that are particular to your family make up can crop up with great similarities to not just close relatives, but past relatives too, probably because those genes were strong.
2007-12-28 14:56:45 · answer #4 · answered by hfdakj 1 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Wow! My g-g-g-grandma was born BEFORE the Revolutionary War! (All of them!)
But, yes, people often look more like a grandparent, etc., than their own parents.
Now you have me wondering what my g-g-g-(whatever) looked like!
2007-12-28 15:07:11 · answer #5 · answered by Nothingusefullearnedinschool 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes a person can. I met a 6th cousin and we had the same hands, forehead, shape of the ears. Both of us coming from different parts of the country.
2007-12-28 14:55:52 · answer #6 · answered by Gloria M 1 · 1⤊ 1⤋
I have a picture of my great aunt and it is amazing how much my aunt (her niece) looks like her. There is definitely something to genetics!
2007-12-28 14:56:23 · answer #7 · answered by jazzyjklo 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yeah his name was Cesar and was the emperor of Rome .
2007-12-28 15:12:47 · answer #8 · answered by Bobby 2 Gunz 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have been given some old photographs of my gr/gr/gr/ aunt, I am the double of her, it really spooked me when I saw the likeness.
2007-12-28 15:02:55 · answer #9 · answered by itsjustme 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
YES it could go way way back in the genes
2007-12-28 14:54:23 · answer #10 · answered by goodmother 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋