A kissing cousin in Tenn was any cousin that turned up for the family reunion ----- Original Message ----- From: "George & Shiela Irwin" <irwin.gs@verizon.net> To: <illogan@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 7:47 PM Subject: Re: [ILLOGAN] Famous Relative > >Elsewhere, a kissing cousin is one who is so distantly related that there > are no taboos against dating him/her< > > Where I was raised in Central Illinois, I used to think that it was > someone > you knew to be related somehow, but it was distant enough that you did not > know exactly how! That probably fits into the above. > > But then our family was more outwardly reserved, not of the kissing type > except among a few of the older women! So few would have met your first > definition. > >>From my genealogy of both German and Scotch Irish family ancestors, I have > found several second cousin and a few first cousin marriages. So I guess > that is another possible definition of the term -- cousins who married > each > other. > > > ________ > Logan County ILGenWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/~illogan > > To unsubscribe send a message to: > ILLOGAN-request@Rootsweb.com > with unsubscribe as the subject. > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILLOGAN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message