Re: [Gramps-users] cousins getting married?

[S. C. <ste...@gm...>]

>>> If I can have a digital show of hands -- how many of you have
>>> instances in your database where cousins, (first, 2nd, 3rd, etc...)
>>> got married?  Does it happen often in your tree?  Never?
>>>
>>> In my database going back 400 years, I have dozens of such
>>> occurrences.  Not first cousins, but 2nd and so on.  Last one was in
>>> the late 1800s.  I had assumed this was common in the past, but a
>>> comment today from someone makes me think this is actually not as
>>> common as I thought, even back in the 1500s-1800s.
>>>

Thanks to everyone who replied to this thread.  Many replied to the
mailing list, and even more replied off-list directly to me.  Looks
like there are many of us that have cousins who have married, even
first cousins.  Most people reported that they have instances of
married cousins before the 1900s, several more recent.  One person is
married to their first cousin, and another married to "a cousin",
though they didn't specify if it was 1st, 2nd, etc.

Stéphane Charette