Wait, what is wrong with 2nd cousins marrying? I thought it was prohibited if you were first cousins or closer... [email protected] wrote: In a message dated 4/3/2007 9:33:12 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: Message: 14 Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:31:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Mary Pat Subject: Re: [IRL-KERRY] COUSINS MARRYING??? To: [email protected] Cc: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 I remember Dad (Mayo man) singing " I'm my own Grandpa" and we came to find out after Mom's passing that they were 2nd cousins .. No problems, except for how people made them feel about "what they did", ... We never let on to Dad about our new found knowledge .. They were great, so in love with each other, we were fine - however the narrow minds still remain about .. MaryPat this started the conversation Jim Denning -Ygenealogist-MTgenealogist using Genetics to connect Chelsea,Ma.-Woburn,Ma.-denning-dennen-danin-dinan-dinihey-denningston-dinning- carlon-carroll-dever-cogan-malone-heslin-piscopo-mazzola-martini-farrell-mchug h-farley-grimes-lynch-doherty-SanDanto,Ita-Adargh,longford-Revere,Ma-Wintrop,M a.- and ever an growing list List owner of Irish-dna,Piscopo-l-Heslin-l,McHugh-l,Cogan-l-Machelsea-l,Ita-Frosinone-l,Mazzola-l-Duggan-l Project Manager of Chelsea Ma. Genetics Project,Denning&Variants Project-Farrell Genetics Project-The Cogan Project- the Duggan Project- County Longford Project-Frosinone Italy Project-Parramatta-Sydney Project- Hannibal MO-QuincyIL Project-Brighton-NewtonMA Project ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Send instant messages to your online friends http://uk.messenger.yahoo.com