What a great research tool! I have two gg. grandparents who came from Sussex. Being Mormon, they had a multitude of descendants. I have 56 first-cousins alone who descended from this couple. I will put out a query to see if any had bent fingers, but to my knowledge none of them did. Lynne in Tucson -----Original Message----- From: heywyre akers Sent: Monday, November 11, 2013 8:02 AM To: SUSSEX-PLUS@rootsweb.com ; arthur.patreece@gmail.com Subject: Re: [SXP] Bent fingers Hello Patreece I find your inquiry interesting in that my husband was born in England and given up for adoption at a very young age (approximately 2-3 wks old). He has bent little fingers (last upper joint bends inwards) and it has passed down to his children and grandchildren. I am unsure as to what side of his family it came from but he was born in Watford, Herts. JudyBC Canada > > > On 11 November 2013 01:15, Tim Powys-Lybbe <tim@powys.org> wrote: > > > On 10 Nov at 22:14, Patreece Palmer <arthur.patreece@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > Some while ago ( several years!) someone on the list asked if anyone > > > from Sussex had the disfigurement of bent little fingers in their > > > family. I answered that query but to the best of my knowledge I had no > > > reply, so thought I would try again. My daughter, granddaughter and 2 > > > gr granddaughters have this. I was born in Sussex, in Brighton, and > > > wonder if there is any connection? > > > > Both my little fingers have a slight clink in the end joint and both my > > index fingers have a bigger kink in both joints. The latter was > > definitely inherited from my mother who had the same feature; she was > > additionally a very competent violinist; I have some useful dexterity in > > my hands and have never found these deformities to be any problem. It > > may even be that they enable the tips of my fingers to come together > > more naturally and so be competent at delicate manipulative tasks. > > > > -- > > Tim Powys-Lybbe tim@powys.org > > for a miscellany of bygones: http://powys.org/ > > > > ------------------------------- > > 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 > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------------- 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