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kestrel91316

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2. We know he comes from Mormon polygamist family lines.

Reply to madinmaryland (Original post)

Fri May 25, 2012, 11:25 PM

May 2012

So do I. One census shows one of my g-g-g-grandfathers with his TEN wives and all the attendant children, too. Because it was before UT was a state, it showed them as wives (rather than later on when they would report plural wives as sisters or aunts or whatever, or they would set them up in a separate house on the property so you would see clusters of homes with women and kids and no adult male.

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Romney's and Polygamy as shown by the US Census... [View all] madinmaryland May 2012 OP

Good catch. AnotherMcIntosh May 2012 #1

We know he comes from Mormon polygamist family lines. kestrel91316 May 2012 #2

We also know he is from Mexico... madinmaryland May 2012 #3

meh Kali May 2012 #4

This candidate claims that marriage has always been one man and one woman. Warren Stupidity May 2012 #6

ah ok good point Kali May 2012 #7

I looked at this census, and it surprised me to see - Casandia May 2012 #5

If Obama's ancestory is fair game, so is Mitt's. I say dig through it. JoePhilly May 2012 #8