[or-roots] marriages among Kin

[Robert Casebeer]

Marriages, even between first cousins, has not had the genetic impact that
our forebears feared according to the most recent research conducted as a
result of our genome findings and dna studies.  Apparently, the "moron"
connection is not a real fear...however sterility may be an genetic
offshoot.
    It is likely that the pool of available partners was limited back in the
early days of pioneer settlement on our shifting American frontiers...and
since love occurs more quickly between couples who intellectually are
similar, cousin marriages may have been much more common then than now.
Husbands and wives are more closely linked intellectually than are siblings
apparently, according to the research that has been done on IQ. Bob Casebeer
----- Original Message -----
From: "Leslie Chapman" <reedsportchapmans at verizon.net>
To: "Oregon List" <or-roots at sosinet.sos.state.or.us>
Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 7:09 AM
Subject: [or-roots] marriages among Kin


> I guess I am entitled to chime in here since I married the daughter of a
> cousin, for those keeping score that makes my son his own second cousin,
> among other things; I just ran a kinship report on him and note that as a
> result of some clean up I have been doing he actually isn't related to
> himself as many ways as he was;
>
> 2nd cousin once removed VII 4
> 9th cousin once removed XXI 11
> 10th cousin XXII 11
> 9th cousin twice removed XXII 12
> 10th cousin once removed
>
> now what you see her  is half a result of my marriage, but back in the
> family tree are all kinds of crosses, as a result of which I do not have a
> family tree but a family web.
>
> The most notorious one I can think of is somewhere in my New England
Browns
> is a real twister, where distant cousins each raised a family, then there
> spouses died and they married. Then he died and she married third, her own
> step son, or at least that is what shows up in someone's famly file, I
have
> never confirmed this however and with an uncommon name like Brown I'm sure
> there is no chance of mistakews.
>
> Les C
>
>
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