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From: "Jim & Gaila" <>
Subject: Re: [DNA] Interview/beta thalassemia
Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 20:33:56 +1100
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You would wonder if this Tipton married a Talliferro (Tolliver) from
Virginia, SC or Georgia, as thalassemia is seen more often in Italian or
Greek families. There weren't many Italians in the Colonies, but there were
some.
Gaila

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mitzi Bateman" <>
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Sent: Friday, December 06, 2002 7:33 PM
Subject: [DNA] Interview/beta thalassemia


> Just browsed the interviews on Annie's book promotion site; I am aware of
> the study on beta thalassemia by Stanley Diamond.
> Hope it isn't off topic, but both my mother's brothers carry this gene, as
> do many cousins. I've traced it back at least as far as my great
> grandmother, a Tipton. (It's prevalent in the family of some descendants
of
> one of her brothers and I have also found it in one Tipton family who is
> even farther back.) We only have a paper trail (on our line) back to a
> Thomas Tipton who was in GA by the late 1700's, but the thought to be
> American progenitor of the family (and ancestor of most American Tiptons)
> was a Jonathan Tipton who arrived in Maryland in the late 1600's. His
birth
> was in Jamaica in 1639.
>
> Wish someone would do a study on us. : )
>
> Mitzi
>
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