Not sure whether Bohemia would be considered northern European or central European...if "Russian Jewish" was racially Jewish, as in Israeli (as opposed to Russians following the Hebrew religion), that would definitely mean people who lose the ability to digest lactose in childhood. ----- Original Message ----- From: <Hcounter@aol.com> To: <can-ont-simcoe@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 22, 2010 10:37 PM Subject: Re: [CAN-ONT-SIMCOE] Francesco or McKinnon of Stouffville, Ontario,Canada > In a message dated 8/20/2010 10:34:30 P.M. Central Daylight Time, > andrews.colleen@gmail.com writes: > > European people (such as English/Irish/Scottish/French > etc.) continue to produce the enzyme to digest lactose (or something like > that) into adulthood; most other people, esp in the southern hemisphere, > cease to at about age 4. Maybe that includes Mediterranean people (& > therefore Italians) as well. > English/Irish/Scottish/..........Interesting, add Bohemian and Russian > Jewish to that and you have my ancestry and that of my kids and my > grandkids > (including their father's side), yet my kids were lactose intolerant at > birth as is one of my grandkids. > > Annie in Minnesota > > > ***************** > Ten People All Genealogists Should Follow On Twitter: http://tr.im/hBAy > > Simcoe Co. GenWeb at http://www.waynecook.com/simcoe.shtml > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CAN-ONT-SIMCOE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message