Hello Everyone, Retinitus Pigmentosa Eye Disease. This morning I spoke to Dorothy BOWMAN (non computer) she said if I would put this message on the Kingsclere List, as it concerns some Kingsclere family tree researchers. A Doctor at Moorfield's Eye Hospital, London is investigating the eye disease. Dorothy had a telephone call from the Doctor and has been able to help him, by sending him her MILES family tree and noting those that suffered the blindness from the eye disease. The eye disease is passed down through the family lines. Dorothy's FT starts with John MYHILL/MILES married Hannah POCOCK, and their son Benjamin MILES married Sarah LEE, again down to their David MILES married Eliza MARSHALL. Dorothy is not sure where RP started with her ancestors on her FT. Mostly the men get the eye disease and the women appear to be the carriers and they pass the eye disease onto the couples children unknowingly. Dorothy's son has the eye disease, he and another son and relations have and are being examined, at Moorfield's Eye Hospital and are helping in the research. The Doctor at Moorfield's hopes to locate the gene/s that cause the eye disease and eventually eradicate it, with Dorothy's families help as guinipigs. If anyone has on their FT any names that connect with Dorothy's FT and who were blind, Dorothy would like to hear from you. Please contact me and I will give you Dorothy's telephone number or address if you would rather write to her. Lets us hope that all of the Doctors research, will result in saving people eye sight in the future. Kind regards Barbara Lewis Mallyon Basingstoke, Hants. UK BarbaraMallyon@lewmal.co.uk List Admin