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From: "Valerie Upton" <>
Subject: Re: [BROWN] Re: Webbed Toes
Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2000 11:26:12 -0500


I "think" you will find a lot of these "odd" things are in a lot of
different families. It would be interesting to follow them back, but
dought that you could do it for long...
You are speaking of several different things.. Webbing, joined or
frozen joints in the toes, and the curved nails.. All would work as
different gene information. Not one thing influencing one of the other
Odd, items....
The only thing like this, that I know for sure, of... is
My Husband and my daughter have the little finger of their hand, that curves
in towards the hand.. Usually its straight... This is comes down from a
parent to a child in a straight line... Some of these things might skip a
generation, but I don't know if or which ones might do that... When I
was a teen, we knew a family that carried the Webbing of the toes, and it
seemed it carried straight down but not sure if it always does that...
Usually the Drs will just clip that tissue and that is it... The family we
knew would let their daughters be clipped as it was know to them as a family
trait, and they wanted it left that way...
For those of you that have this or other traits, it would be interesting
to make a note of who in family has it, and see how strong a trait it is.
Would help if you had large families...LOL
Finding out the health problems with in your family is a great idea, and
gives you some good clues of what to watch for, NOT do.. maybe no smoking
or drinking etc... Watching your weight and so forth...
One family I know, a large one of 12 kids, shows very clearly, that any
of them that smoke are signing a death cert. the ones that smoked, ALL got
lung cancer, at an early age, and one mouth cancer... ones that didn't
smoke, stayed healthy.. We have records through 3 generations now, with a
strong clue that one of the males in the presiding generation died form
cancer, due to smoking too... The present generation has been warned, and
see's the danger, and the new ones being born now will be warned too..
Anyway, back to toes, fingers and such... I don't think, that ahving
an Indian bloodline, would add any more of a chance for this, than any other
"bloodline" . There "could" be some Indian familys that carry it, same as
German, Irish, french, or others..
Maybe, someone has a Dr. that could answer some questions... IF they
remember what they learned... Since this isn't something that causes, an
illness, or death, its probably not paid that much to. thats all from V

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Date: Wednesday, July 12, 2000 9:00 AM
Subject: [BROWN] Re: Webbed Toes


>My Brown line comes from NH > NY > MI > MO ,my Aunt had webbed toes as well
>as my twin sons. We were told that the trait was hereditary but had no idea
>where in the family it came from. We also have an American Indian
connection
>somewhere in the family too, but undocumented as of now. It would really be
>interesting to find out where this trait comes from.
>Kathleen in KC
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