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Other than the one person marrying their aunt, the closest connection I can see is a second cousin marrying, something I believe is legal, healthy, and very com
by boomboomsubban 5y ago
Other than the one person marrying their aunt, the closest connection I can see is a second cousin marrying, something I believe is legal, healthy, and very common in that period. I'd bet portions of your family tree from two hundred years ago would look similar.
- ceejayoz 5y agoThat tree's focused on only one person, Ben Stacy; his ancestors. The entire tree sounds a lot more connected: > However, by the early 1960s, some members of the Fugate clan had begun to resent their cobalt-tinted skin. Not only did their skin mark them as different, but by that time, people had already begun to associate their skin color with the family’s history of inbreeding.
- boomboomsubban 5y agoI think if any of us had a visual cue showing our familial ties people would also say we had a family history of inbreeding.
- User23 5y agoIt’s called pedigree collapse. Your family tree grows exponentially to the second power with each generation. So a mere 50 generations ago, which is to say roughly 1000-1500 years ago, you had 1,125,899,906,842,624 slots in your family tree. Needless to say the vast majority of those slots don't have a unique person in them.
- cperciva 5y agoMine certainly does. One quarter of my ancestry comes from an area of Lancashire which had three wealthy families -- the Cleggs, the Mercers, and the Taylors. Those three families intermarried almost exclusively from ca. 1400 until ca. 1850.
- redis_mlc 5y agoThere still is a lot of cousin marriage today, mostly in religious pockets that are either small for the region, or shrinking rapidly (look at Lebanon or Middle Eastern countries.) In Islam, since the Prophet wanted to marry his close relatives, their kinship rules have a couple of weird cutout exceptions compared to most uniform rules in other religions.