I was browsing Rootsweb and was drawn to the Medical Genealogy list archives, being a family researcher but also distantly related to a line that carries Huntington's-- the youngest that I know of them is about 38 and believes she is just developing symptoms. She was raised as a foster child in my family when her mother was incapacitated with HD 30 years ago.

The ancestor who carried the gene was Mable DOUGHTY, a surname plentiful in the Buffalo and Pepin county area of WI (and yes, early on it was in NY) where this family was from-- but most with the name are not afflicted or carriers. Since it's not a primary line of mine, I haven't traced down which Doughtys were affected and which weren't--but I know a Doughty genealogist who could help.

Anyway, Mable Doughty had several children with Tom HARTUNG, her husband, in the earlier 1900s and died young, in childbirth--too young to let anyone know she was a carrier of the HD gene. Several of Mable's children died with HD, and I could find out who their offspring are.

I just wanted to get this info on your board, for those who are researching. Would you post the info for me and tell people to feel free to contact me if I can help them?

Thanks
Gail Von Bargen
Minneapolis MN