-- >This disease also surfaced in the colonial English Catholic community here >in Southern Maryland. I met a woman a couple of years ago at a local >genealogical conference. She was working on a project tracing the disease >for Johns Hopkins in Baltimore. Unfortunately, some years back the >"enlightened" local health officials refused to allow a study of the >disease in St. Mary's County, so the Johns Hopkins study went to the >Catholic area of central Kentucky .. Marion, Nelson & Washington counties >.. & did the study there. Most of the same Catholic family names in >Southern Maryland show up in that section of Kentucky {& in smaller >Catholic settlements in southern Indiana, Missouri, & Texas} .. I ran a >short article on this subject in our local genealogical society's >newsletter & suggested to our members with ancestry in this early English >Catholic cluster to check w/ their doctor about Huntington's disease. It is >very common in this area .. a close friend of mine has it all thru' his >father's family .. from Southern Maryland. >I suppose in any area that was isolated for many generations {by >geography, religion, etc.}, these sorts of diseases can crop up. > >---------- >> From: Honor Conklin <hconklin@MAIL.NYSED.GOV> >> To: LI-Rooters@genexchange.com >> Subject: [LI-Rooters] Rattray's article >> Date: Wednesday, July 28, 1999 8:21 AM >> >> In the article posted yesterday by Helen Rattray "A Village at Odds >with it's Glamour," it mentions Huntington's (chorea) in regard to our >ancestors marrying each other over the generations. I have read of this >degenerative disease in regards to the Guthrie family and how it was >tracked in South America but I wasn't aware of it being especially >prevalent on Long Island. Does anyone know of any books or articles that >specifically explore the disease at it relates to Long Island families, >especially early generations? >> I know that there has been informal tracking of lupus in the John >Concklin of Flushing and Rye line which may also be found in some of the >Ananias Conklin line, (coincidence or an indicator that they are indeed >blood relations). >> I would be interested in any books or articles that track Lupus to >early Long Island or Westchester County families, as well. >> >> >> Honor Conklin >> hconklin@mail.nysed.gov >> >> >> ----------------------- >> How To Unsubscribe: http://www.genexchange.com/faq.cfm >> >> NYGenExchange >> http://www.genexchange.com/ny/index.cfm >> >> Emigrant Savings Bank Records Project >> http://www.genexchange.com/ny/Emigrant.CFM >----------------------- >How To Unsubscribe: http://www.genexchange.com/faq.cfm > >NYGenExchange >http://www.genexchange.com/ny/index.cfm > >Emigrant Savings Bank Records Project >http://www.genexchange.com/ny/Emigrant.CFM >