Lots of people married cousins, back then. I and some of my relatives are modern-day results of some of those marriages, in the Tidewater.
That’s the thing about Arkansas. No matter if you’re divorced or separated, it doesn’t matter. She’ll always be your sister.
Lots of people married cousins, back then. I and some of my relatives are modern-day results of some of those marriages, in the Tidewater.
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In the early 17th century near Goochtown, Virginia, my g.g.f.’s wife died and he remarried with his first cousin.
“Pickings” were slim in rural areas and he needed help raising his family. People knew back then knew that products from such a marriage were normal, something fairly newly “rediscovered” by science.
Problems arise after it’s done generation after generation such as the mooselimbs do.
First cousin marriage is still illegal in some states.