Typical Icelandic family.
Posted on 02/11/2012 9:52:19 PM PST by Slings and Arrows
When your society has inhabited a small, remote island for countless generations and boasts a population of only 300,000, the odds of having sex with a relative are significant. Luckily, Icelanders now have a handy tool to avoid family-sex.
Íslendingabók—meaning "book of Icelanders"—is an online incest avoidance search engine. Plug in your name and that of a potential mate, and the site searches a genealogical database to see how closely you're related. It's likely that you'll have some overlap many generations back—in which case you're probably safe from mutant children. But if you share great-grandparents, you might want to reconsider your Nordic hookup.
But there's a twist! As GlobalPost reports, new research says sexing with a distant cousin is actually beneficial for fertility, as your genes are more comptable than someone from the other side of the planet. So, avoid creepy incest, but seek out good incest. Iceland—constantly at the top of quality of life lists, and an easy place to sleep with an attractive cousin. [GlobalPost via TNW]
The reason is because the number of potential ancestors doubles as you trace back every generation whereas the pool of available ancestors shrinks rather dramatically.
After 1670, all bets are off because it was about that time that the colonies became a convenient dumping ground for all sorts of people.
Some were petty thieves and debtors, sort of like the first Australian colonists, selected by the best judges in Britain. Most were just impoverished people.
It was common for a ship to show up off the coast of Ireland or Scotland. Officials would step off dockside and read the names of a list of families who were to report for transportation to America. Generally, they had a day to two to gather with their meager belongings, board the ship and leave. There was little chance of appeal as most of the names had been cleared with the local authorities in advance. Returning from transportation was a hanging offense.
“Just ask a good Democrat.”
*smack my forehead!
YES! That’s what I need to do! Ask a GOOD democrat!
Oh, wait..........
That’s why they need so much damn birth control.
What a brilliant idea!
The town I reside in could use a good online incest avoidance search engine. Everyone is related one way or another, almost does a full circle. It’s too disgusting. I didn’t find this out till I started researching the history of my house. LOL. I found out this town’s dirty little secret.
I’m very exited about moving out of here.
[Yes, I know I posted the link before. The poor guy just fascinates me.]
Gasp!
Thanks for the link. It sure is an eye opener!
good one :O)
Well, if a freeper came out of all that, its not too bad..:O)
De nada.
Thank’ee ma’am.
The mormon church is a great start for tracing your geneology and its free....Was able to trace one branch back to the 1700's but only one branch....its like you have 2 parents 4 grandparents 8 grandparents etc. so we are probably all related to each other far enough back and I'm ticked I didn't inherite the money or good looks of some of my ancestors, assumeing they had good looks...or money.
As I read your post I was thinking that “Rain_Drop must be from upstate NY”. I checked your ‘about me’ page and as I suspected, there was the NY flag!
Let me guess, Hamilton, Delaware or Schoharie County? Please FReepmail if I’m close.
Thanks, let’s have lunch....panax
He had the IQ to be one, but they'd more likely use him as one of their living stage props.
LOL GG
Well biblically speaking, first cousins could marry and I think a lot of state laws allow second cousins or more distant....so....ahem ;) (just kidding)
“new research says sexing with a distant cousin is actually beneficial for fertility, as your genes are more comptable than someone from the other side of the planet”
What a load of c%$!
The third solution is to reopen the closed US Navy Air station at Keflavik and ship in about 10,000 single American sailors, Marines, and Airmen ;)
“What a load of c%$!”
Exactly. What a perverted load of horsesh!t.
The “new research” must have been funded by Saudi Arabia, sick incestuous bastards.
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