This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/hlT.2ACEB/2866.1 Message Board Post: You might look closer at some of the family lines. My husbands family looked at first like one of them had 25 children. Then to our surprise some of them were brought to the marriage by the second and third wives and just took the step fathers surname. Very interesting since that disease is almost exclusive to the area around Italy, Southern France and those areas. An friend has the same thing and she has traced it to Southern France and Sicily