Gosh, that Robertson/Duncan bent little finger certainly started an interesting chain! Your answers got me googling. After a bit of research, I have to say I don't think our family's bent little finger is the DC syndrome, which seems to make the finger contract towards the palm. The bent little finger involves the top joint of the little finger leaning toward the ring finger. If you lay your hand flat on the table, you can see it. Apparently Mendel lists this as a dominant genetic trait. Like a widow's peak, freckles, longer second toe, ring finger longer than index finger, attached ear lobe, dimples, and so on. My husband, his mother, his sister, two of our children all have the bent finger. All supposedly from the ancestor, John Dunkin, son of William Duncan, the Baptist minister in Scotland, who migrated in the mid-1700s. But we still haven't found him... Incidentally, in Menzies Castle there's the plaster cast of a hand, said to be that of Mary, Queen of Scots. My husband took one look at it and said, "Whoever she is, she must be a Robertson. She's got a bent little finger!" Sir Ian Moncreiff's book about the Scottish clans, which I can't find at this moment, was the first place we saw this trait mentioned in relationship to the Robertson clan. Now, about that widow's peak and freckles and premature white hair... Sheila