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To: Pollster1

When did they rule out 1st cousins? A set of my great-grandparents had to go from Illinois to Kentucky to get hitched back in the 20’s because they were 1st cousins—the relationship was no problem, but as one of them was a bit darker than the other, there was some concern about inter-racial marriage.


26 posted on 07/01/2014 10:30:51 AM PDT by Hieronymus ( (It is terrible to contemplate how few politicians are hanged. --G.K. Chesterton))
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To: Hieronymus

About half the states allow first cousins to marry. Children born to first cousins have about twice the risk of a genetically transmitted birth defect compared to children of more distantly related parents.


28 posted on 07/01/2014 10:49:14 AM PDT by riverdawg
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