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I discovered I am my own cousin. Seriously. (We all are. )
For sure. I have situations where two sisters married two brothers--I think it was because of the limited pool of acceptable spouses. They were Royalists (pro-British) during the Revolutionary War! Then, later on, I've got my grandparents marrying in the same church during the same year as my ex husband's grandparents in a tiny village on the Canadian border. We asked his mother and sure enough, some of her family surnames were the same as my mother's family surnames and from the same sparsely populated county.
^ Yep. Seen shared surnames in the same towns many times. Don't always figure out the exact connection. Recently connected the dots between some New England ancestors and Canadian ancestors. It goes that like this. "Hey, we already have that surname. Those first names look familiar, too. Wait a minute! This is another connection to the same family!"
I discovered I am my own cousin. Seriously. (We all are. )
In my extensive genealogy I found one example of close intermixing. Up my maternal line up some Quakers an ancestor married a 1st cousin once removed. As it turns out though my parents ancestry come from different immediate locations, they both lead back mostly to the South (with a bit of Northern in there), but the only set of ancestors I've found shared (despite many living near each other a ways back) happens to be the shared ancestry in that cousin couple lol. Meaning I descend from a pair of ancestors three times.
In my extensive genealogy I found one example of close intermixing. Up my maternal line up some Quakers an ancestor married a 1st cousin once removed. As it turns out though my parents ancestry come from different immediate locations, they both lead back mostly to the South (with a bit of Northern in there), but the only set of ancestors I've found shared (despite many living near each other a ways back) happens to be the shared ancestry in that cousin couple lol. Meaning I descend from a pair of ancestors three times.
Contrary to stereotype, all my intermarriages are in New England, mainly Massachusetts. (known of a few instances for many years, was just joshing around earlier about it being a "surprise") We have lots of Puritan ancestors and at one time in history they couldn't or wouldn't marry non-Puritans so 2nd cousin once removed started to look pretty good.
At some point, everyone's pedigree collapses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedigree_collapse - which basically just means there's going to be married couples in your tree who are cousins, whether they know it or not (whether close or distant cousins).
It's not unusual for an instance of pedigree collapse to be recent enough that it's within a genealogical time frame and therefore traceable or documented.
Contrary to stereotype, all my intermarriages are in New England, mainly Massachusetts. (known of a few instances for many years, was just joshing around earlier about it being a "surprise") We have lots of Puritan ancestors and at one time in history they couldn't or wouldn't marry non-Puritans so 2nd cousin once removed started to look pretty good.
haha, thanks for sharing. Those exclusive religious groups usually ended up with this sort of thing.
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Seriously. (We all are. 
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