In a message dated 6/8/2005 9:03:26 AM Eastern Standard Time, NYNIAGAR-FOLKS-D-request@rootsweb.com writes: I thought this might be interesting to some of you. CBS -------- 60 minutes A segment on Genetic Studies in the Amish will air on Wednesday night June 8. You will need to look up the time for your on area ***** This was a very good segment. It is ashamed that this is happening to the children. The worse part was the men who said: if they had to do it over again, they WOULD NOT have done genic testing. What a closed mind! Their strong religious belief was their reasoning. What a shame that the whole Amish Community don't want to help themselves, by taking advantage of the 'Outsiders world of knowledge'. I know the Amish don't go beyond 8th grade in education. If they did, I think they would learn that other people's education could help them. People and religions, I think, do have to change. Generally people today are more educated than in biblical time. More educated than when the Amish came to the US, Who helped them get more educated. I believe it is the people's religious beliefs and the people were open to new ideas. They lived "in the world" not apart from the world. If I had lived apart from the world, I would not have met so many different nice people in following my genealogy. I learned what other people did and evaluated to use or not to use in my life. I wish the Amish general population would do the same. Susanne Michigan