My family is not Amish, but Irish and in tracing our family back, we find a lot of inbreeding when the Irish came to this country. That doesn’t leave much opportunity for improving the genetic variation of the community.Anyone know if there are any organized get-togethers between the groups in Lancaster County, PA, Holmes County, OH, northern IN and others for the purpose of the young people to meet others from outside their area?I know the distances are pretty far, but it would seem to be worth it for the health of the communities.Anyone know if there are any organized get-togethers between the groups in Lancaster County, PA, Holmes County, OH, northern IN and others for the purpose of the young people to meet others from outside their area?I know the distances are pretty far, but it would seem to be worth it for the health of the communities.I don’t know about organized exactly, but there is quite a large population of Amish people that head south for at least part of the winter and stay in There can be some tension, however, about marrying between sects. The Amish do this not as a matter of punishment, but to bring the person to repentance and back into the community. The Amish make up only about 10 percent of the population in Geagua County in Ohio, but they're half of the special needs cases. I refuse to give them ratings, though I did watch Breaking Amish after the last series was done. I’m not saying that either group should lower their standards, dilute their culture to suit outsiders, or actively evangelize masses of people in an obnoxious way. With a high likelihood of incest also comes the subject of inbreeding. Unfortunately the word is so loaded that some people will glance at a headline like that and think Amish men marry their sisters.I agree, Erik, that in-breeding is a loaded word. There were common ancestors in my own family, as might be expected among people who originated in the Highlands and Islands of northern Great Britain, and my late husband and I had a distant common ancestor.

Since we don’t have an “Ask the Amish guy” thread, I’m wondering if anyone here might know some or be a former Amish so I can get an answer.The Amish communities seem pretty tight knit and self contained. Anyway, you can inherit good traits and not-so-good traits —one of the traits the Amish population seems to have in abundance is resourcefulness and intelligence.“Unfortunately the word is so loaded that some people will glance at a headline like that and think Amish men marry their sisters.”Yes, Erik, I agree. If I breed the 2 together would I be making their good genes stronger????? Noah and his family repopulated the entire world that way.I’ve lived around and worked with amish my whole life. Most families do not have such diseases despite having first cousins marry each other multiple times (like my mother’s father’s family). I searched around a little today to see what kind of Amish inbreeding commentary people are making out there on the internet.

And thanks for reminding me of the correct term rumpspringa…it’s been enough years that I had forgotten it. IIRC, there were significantly more genetic abnormalities among the Amish than in the “English” popularity of the area, esp. Can anyone else?I agree that “inbreeding” is a loaded term; I like Lattice’s term better. It’s also not unusual for young people in an Amish community to travel to other communities to find spouses, to avoid marrying someone closely related.
It happened more than I expected. If they like the Big Macs and Internet porn they leave. Do Amish have genetic disorders? No cite, I heard it on NPR. The Amish do not go outside the Amish culture to recruit. 15 Messed Up Genetic Mutations Caused By Inbreeding. Interesting to know there are two words for the term in Spanish. This topic also is very interesting to me in relation to how the Amish view disabilities and care for those in their community with disabilities. That made the bishop’s son a step-uncle to his wife and step great-uncle to his own children as well as being their father. The other one I watched for about 5 minutes & left the room.. You may have heard that mongrels are far healthier than pedigree dogs, and that pedigree breeds are all doomed.

once several generations have occurred than thats when you start seeing huge amounts of birth defects. It clearly is not healthy to do so, at least not at this point in history, and not so repeatedly.Amish Community Info | Book Giveaways | Amish Writers & non-Amish Experts | More I’m not sure how much of a percentage of the population as a whole they represent, but know that it wasn’t uncommon to see an Amish family with a disabled child or adult in it.When Amish young people have their time of sowing their wild oats, it isn’t unheard of for the women to have one or two babies by outsiders before settling down. Eventually they would be related to everyone else in one form or another.Do the Amish have an exchange program to bring in fresh blood from other communities? Purebred vs Inbred Dogs. the problem is what happens over multiple generations of imbreeding. The Amish, Mennonite, and Hutterite Genetic Disorder Database was created in response to a paucity of resources for medical practitioners who treat these populations. Oh my. We humans are not as genetically diverse as we would like to think.Since I am not of a scientific or genetic bent I can’t add a whole lot to this conversation but find it interesting…and reminds me of a comment from a older man I knew who when asked about family would say with a smile…”I’m my own Grandpa.” Now that is an interesting family tree. thats a 200 year separation. The Amish as a whole are not overtly political, so this […] Another thing that most Amish women are likely to want to keep a secret is the habit of inbreeding in Amish communiti This left them with some issues, but they do function, and it’s not as if weaker cubs don’t get killed off constantly in most other cat species. It is hard to form a strong bond under the best of circumstances, let alone the ones they face. The Old Order Amish communities (Plain people) of North America have altered health risks that stem from unbalanced population sampling of European founders followed by genetic drift in derivative generations.

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