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MineralMan

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22. I think it's also more common in small, rural communities.

Mon Jul 13, 2015, 03:29 PM

Jul 2015

Large families and few opportunities to meet eligible partners would encourage brothers to marry sisters and have kids. There are fewer such communities these days, and families are smaller.

There was one set of such marriages in my wife's family, a generation before her parents. Small farm town in South Dakota. So, there are double cousins around, in her mother's generation. None of them married another double cousin, though. That's been a taboo pairing for some time, I think.

I know some first cousins who married, though. Several, in fact. Again, they're from rural areas. No bad effects from it, though.

I had a brief relationship with a first cousin from another state as a teenager, but it never went very far. As I remember, it was a source of much amusement and teasing at the time from other family members.

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Do you know of any "double-cousins"? [View all] Renew Deal Jul 2015 OP

I didn't even know what it meant until I read that note. NaturalHigh Jul 2015 #1

Yes, sisters of one family married brothers of another family. My father had double first cousins. Thinkingabout Jul 2015 #2

I have two (they are sisters) CatWoman Jul 2015 #25

That's correct............. truegrit44 Jul 2015 #46

is that like republican inbreeding?? Angry Dragon Jul 2015 #3

No. It is getting together with the sibling of your sib's spouse,Your kids are cousins on both sides uppityperson Jul 2015 #10

It isn't inbreeding, it is siblings of one unrelated marrying siblings from another family. Thinkingabout Jul 2015 #55

Wait, what? Xyzse Jul 2015 #4

Cousin marriage is the norm in the middle east, africa, central asia and Indian subcontinent AngryAmish Jul 2015 #28

I meant in those states. Xyzse Jul 2015 #29

Western perspective. AngryAmish Jul 2015 #32

I guess so... Xyzse Jul 2015 #35

WWI was basically a family squabble, since the European royals kept marrying within the tblue37 Jul 2015 #61

It's still bad news when your family tree does not branch Yo_Mama Jul 2015 #69

It's perfectly legal and it's not inbreeding. xmas74 Jul 2015 #67

Not all double cousins are the product of cousins marrying sufrommich Jul 2015 #5

I am one the same way you are, sufrommich. susanna Jul 2015 #20

It's even harder to explain to outsiders. sufrommich Jul 2015 #26

Exactly! But it makes family reunions easier. susanna Jul 2015 #54

This is what is meant as double cousins, nothing nasty or bad about this. Thinkingabout Jul 2015 #56

The people in the OP aren't the product of cousins marrying, either muriel_volestrangler Jul 2015 #57

High five to another double cousin! xmas74 Jul 2015 #68

I know one set. Their fathers are brothers, moms sisters, from different families uppityperson Jul 2015 #6

I guess the real question is does anyone know of double cousins marrying. Renew Deal Jul 2015 #14

I'm slightly confused by your header. SheilaT Jul 2015 #44

Dads are brothers, sibs from 1 birth family. Moms are sisters, sibs from another birth family uppityperson Jul 2015 #45

Okay. So more or less run-of-the-mill double cousins. SheilaT Jul 2015 #48

My mother and her sister married my father and uncle. They had no children though so I had no monmouth4 Jul 2015 #7

Close Renew Deal Jul 2015 #13

I'd never even heard of this. n/t gollygee Jul 2015 #8

Liked that one didja? jberryhill Jul 2015 #9

Yes Renew Deal Jul 2015 #16

That wasn't all that uncommon when families were large, closeupready Jul 2015 #11

exactly shanti Jul 2015 #51

Yes GummyBearz Jul 2015 #12

It's not that common for two brothers to marry two sisters, MineralMan Jul 2015 #15

It could also be a brother and sister from one family marry a brother and sister from another family Renew Deal Jul 2015 #21

Yes, absolutely. Probably an equally common combination. MineralMan Jul 2015 #36

Yes, and it would make for simpler holiday plans. Renew Deal Jul 2015 #39

Yes, I suppose so. MineralMan Jul 2015 #40

I think double cousins were more common in an earlier time, No Vested Interest Jul 2015 #17

I think it's also more common in small, rural communities. MineralMan Jul 2015 #22

I can understand how first cousins can be "interested" in one another, No Vested Interest Jul 2015 #31

First cousin relationships and marriages aren't that uncommon, MineralMan Jul 2015 #38

It probably isn't bad for it too appear once in a while in a family tree 1939 Jul 2015 #42

I think it would be rather rare, really. MineralMan Jul 2015 #43

Absolutely Bluenorthwest Jul 2015 #18

I have double cousins, or at leas that is how we have been identifed. Skidmore Jul 2015 #19

No, but I know some identical cousins KamaAina Jul 2015 #23

LOL! Indeed. MineralMan Jul 2015 #27

I have a few in my family, two that I can think of off-hand. DawgHouse Jul 2015 #24

Yes, I do. Though I've never heard the term "double cousins" before. Tierra_y_Libertad Jul 2015 #30

I do know a step-brother and sister who married. MineralMan Jul 2015 #33

Yes, Sherman A1 Jul 2015 #34

My two (paternal) uncles married a pair of sisters. LeftinOH Jul 2015 #37

Your cousins could not marry in NC, Renew Deal Jul 2015 #41

My question about the map is SheilaT Jul 2015 #47

Here's a link: MineralMan Jul 2015 #49

Thank you. SheilaT Jul 2015 #50

Yes! City Lights Jul 2015 #52

Definitely have that in my family. MANative Jul 2015 #53

My great grandparents angryvet Jul 2015 #58

My father's brother married my mother's sister. No genetic relatives married, but I have 5 Squinch Jul 2015 #59

my grandmother and her sister married brothers (n/t) Retrograde Jul 2015 #60

Yes. My Aunt and my first cousin (blood Aunt and blood niece) married brothers. Solly Mack Jul 2015 #62

My grandparents on my mom's side MiniMe Jul 2015 #63

Sure, though it has nothing to do with your map Recursion Jul 2015 #64

I have one. xmas74 Jul 2015 #65

Two of my greataunts on my father's side married brothers. greatauntoftriplets Jul 2015 #66