My wife descended from the Greentree family who lived in West Sussex (traced back to Milland in the 16th century) suffers from Dupuytren Constricture, which has over the years curled her last two fingers towards the palm. A BBC program she heard some years ago, said that this was a possible sign of descent from a Viking. It is also a family myth that Greentree may denote Viking ancestry. I haven't been able to establish either of these assertions from other sources. Bill Moyle ----- Original Message ----- From: <sussex-plus-request@rootsweb.com> To: <sussex-plus@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:04 AM Subject: SUSSEX-PLUS Digest, Vol 8, Issue 108 > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > If you're not happy with the format of the Digest you can ask to be > switched to MIME format by contacting the list administrator on > sussex-plus-admin@rootsweb.com -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Today's Topics: > > 1. Re: Bent fingers (Alison Elliott) > 2. Bent fingers (Jean Wood) > 3. Re: Bent fingers (heywyre akers) > 4. Re: Bent fingers (Lynne Ingalls) > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > To contact the SUSSEX-PLUS list administrator, send an email to > SUSSEX-PLUS-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the SUSSEX-PLUS mailing list, send an email to > SUSSEX-PLUS@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. >

There is quite a lot about Dupuytren's' on the Internet - Wikipedia gives quite good information and talks a bit about what is known about the background, Alison Sent from my iPhone On 12 Nov 2013, at 01:15, "Bill Moyle" <moylebill@bigpond.com> wrote: > My wife descended from the Greentree family who lived in West Sussex (traced > back to Milland in the 16th century) suffers from Dupuytren Constricture, > which has over the years curled her last two fingers towards the palm. A BBC > program she heard some years ago, said that this was a possible sign of > descent from a Viking. It is also a family myth that Greentree may denote > Viking ancestry. I haven't been able to establish either of these > assertions from other sources. > > Bill Moyle > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <sussex-plus-request@rootsweb.com> > To: <sussex-plus@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, November 12, 2013 9:04 AM > Subject: SUSSEX-PLUS Digest, Vol 8, Issue 108 > > > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> If you're not happy with the format of the Digest you can ask to be >> switched to MIME format by contacting the list administrator on >> sussex-plus-admin@rootsweb.com > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> Today's Topics: >> >> 1. Re: Bent fingers (Alison Elliott) >> 2. Bent fingers (Jean Wood) >> 3. Re: Bent fingers (heywyre akers) >> 4. Re: Bent fingers (Lynne Ingalls) > > > -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > >> To contact the SUSSEX-PLUS list administrator, send an email to >> SUSSEX-PLUS-admin@rootsweb.com. >> >> To post a message to the SUSSEX-PLUS mailing list, send an email to >> SUSSEX-PLUS@rootsweb.com. >> >> __________________________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body >> of the >> email with no additional text. > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SUSSEX-PLUS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message