In genetics the little finger moving in toward the ring finger is dominant, so it's pretty hard to tell where in the branches of the family tree it comes from. You can find some good and "interesting" facts about genetics when you try to find out relationships. It can get really hairy, but it's fun. Now with DNA testing genetics is kind of taking second place to things such as DNA-fingerprinting and just DNA sequencing. Just look at your library for a Biology textbook that has been published in the last few years (up to five years ago I'd say). Hope you can straighten your crooked finger out (grin). Robby McCain >From west-l-request@rootsweb.com Mon Feb 15 10:14:06 1999 >Received: (from slist@localhost) > by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA25547; > Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:01:10 -0800 (PST) >Resent-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:01:10 -0800 (PST) >Message-ID: <19990215181315.12361.qmail@hotmail.com> >X-Originating-IP: [206.27.153.189] >From: "Pati Neal" <triplefire@hotmail.com> >Old-To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: Re: [WEST-L] Crooked fingers >Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 10:13:14 PST >Mime-Version: 1.0 >Content-type: text/plain >Resent-Message-ID: <"NnMvaB.A.ENG.jDGy2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> >To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >Resent-From: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >X-Mailing-List: <WEST-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/2104 >X-Loop: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >Precedence: list >Resent-Sender: WEST-L-request@rootsweb.com > >Eee gads! I've always wondered where the crooked little fingers came >from! My grandmother (daughter of a West), my mother, my sister, and >myself all have identically crooked little fingers. They are turned in >towards the other fingers at the last joint. Perhaps that is a West >trait! > > >>From west-l-request@rootsweb.com Sat Feb 13 07:52:59 1999 >>Received: (from slist@localhost) >> by bl-14.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id HAA07836; >> Sat, 13 Feb 1999 07:40:18 -0800 (PST) >>Resent-Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 07:40:18 -0800 (PST) >>Message-Id: <3.0.5.32.19990213095328.0082db00@theshop.net> >>X-Sender: missbev@theshop.net >>X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (32) >>Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1999 09:53:28 -0600 >>Old-To: west-l@rootsweb.com >>From: Beverly Brown <missbev@theshop.net> >>Mime-Version: 1.0 >>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" >>Subject: [WEST-L] Dawes Rolls/West Ears >>Resent-Message-ID: <"DLAq7B.A.N6B.hzZx2"@bl-14.rootsweb.com> >>To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >>Resent-From: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >>Reply-To: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >>X-Mailing-List: <WEST-L@rootsweb.com> archive/latest/2025 >>X-Loop: WEST-L@rootsweb.com >>Precedence: list >>Resent-Sender: WEST-L-request@rootsweb.com >> >>I see there are Wests who are interested in their possible Native >American >>ancestry. I have the Oklahoma Historical Society's CD of the Dawes >Rolls >>index. The ONLY people who are on this CD are members of the Five >>Civilized Tribes (Choctaw, Chickasaw, Cherokee, Creek, Seminole) who >were >>ALSO living in what is now Oklahoma in 1900, give or take about five >years. >> If you think your relative might fit BOTH criteria, send me a name and >>approximate birthdate and I'll see if they are on the Dawes Rolls. >> >>Incidentally, my Wests aren't my Native American tie. My Scotch-Irish >West >>grandma married my Choctaw grandfather. >> >>Since we probably have new Wests on the list since the last time we >>discussed this (and I do think this fits under the category of >genealogy), >>I'd like to mention the West ears. It seems the Wests have a tendency >to >>have ears that resemble Prince Charles', both in size and shape. Proof >of >>royal ancestry, perhaps? You can see several fine examples of West >ears on >>my web page, http://www.theshop.net/missbev/family/Wests2.html. They >have >>carried down even to the present generation, with my cousin's ten-year >old >>(whose feelings I spared by NOT putting him on my West page) having >those >>identical ears. We also have a tendency to have crooked little >fingers, >>but I don't have a picture of those. >> >>I've decided to build a special web page in tribute to those ears. Do >you >>have examples you'd like to contribute to the web page? If so, e-mail >them >>to me, NOT to the list, with a brief explanation of who the person is >and >>when and where he/she lived. Be sure and tell me if you want your own >name >>and e-mail address listed along with the photo. >> >>Beverly >>missbev@theshop.net >> >> > > >______________________________________________________ >Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com > > >==== WEST Mailing List ==== >Your donation to Rootsweb makes WEST-L possible. > > ______________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free Email at http://www.hotmail.com