I've taken one line back to Adam and Eve...I am 136 generations from Adam ..(you can't tell my age by that, can you??) I find VERY VERY VERY few if any marriages between cousins. I think that was one of the points of keeping genealogy starting in the Bible. The other being to distinquish from non-Hebrew lines. Sharon

Sharon, You would have to know ALL of the ancestors of people who married into your line (to compare with the ancestors in your line) before you could say how many married cousins. In most families, knowing even second cousins often becomes difficult, and third cousins are usually strangers. Only we genealogists or those who go to extended family reunions are likely to know about living cousins beyond that. I take it that you have tongue well planted in cheek when you say you've taken one line back to Adam. I've always wondered who his children married--obviously their siblings were the only other people around. And his grandchildren had to have married either their own siblings or first cousins. And so on down, with people having no choice but to marry cousins of some degree--to this day. I have a line back to Adam, too, but I can't take credit for finding it. I go back to Edward III, as I mentioned, and through him to Edward I (and also by a different line to Edward I--those pesky cousin marriages again!). The line from Edward I to Alfred the Great is well accepted and, from Alfred, I use the genealogy back to Adam that he used to prove he was entitled to be king. But that encompasses only a total of 83 generations so you an I must be 81st cousins, 53 times removed, or something like that. Isn't genealogy fun? Jim