[Invincibly Ignorant]

Famous example" the Brothers Adams," referring to Sam and John Adams, who were, of course, second cousins.

Oh. We get something different again. This sounds much better than that they were all boinking each other back in the first century which made everyone cousins. :-)

[PayNoAttentionManBehindCurtain]

$425?

BigMack

[RobbyS]

You don't know much about village life in any age/place do you? In the town of Ramstein in Germany,a town of about 6,000, I guess, the phone book had large numbers of people with the same family names. Their ancesteries could easily betraced back back at least five hundred years. I bet half the town was related by blood. Furthermore, a German from another village who married into a family was often still treated like a stranger thirty years later. Roots.