My neice is ginger too, and there's nobody I like more.

But it's fun to talk about.

then watch this : "We'll Take Manhatten".

Winter 1962, and cockney photographer David Bailey and unknown model Jean Shrimpton are sent to New York for a prestigious Vogue photo shoot. This drama tells the story of a wild week, their love affair, terrible fights with their fashion editor - and how two young people with no such intention happened to change the world of fashion forever.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01b674s

If you search individual google pics of Shrimpton and Bailey from those days you'll see how well cast that was.

I've been under the impression that Scotland's red hair was introduced by the Vikings.

I went to an historically Swedish college, and the percentage of redheads was unusually high.

I also have a red beard, inherited from my Swedish ancestors.

which, of course, means red.

Red is a favorite color, at least here, for hair dye

I bucked the system.... Red headed descendant of Scotland who dyes her hair black