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/xVB.2ACE/1606.1 Message Board Post: your message was forwarded to me by my mother ...i have a deaf son...it is appalling to me that some people joke and make fun of others ...anyway...the hospitals where these taylors were born usually when theres a diagnosis of hearing loss they do a genetic study..might try inquiries thru the hospitals...