Candy and Bruce Hughes wrote: >Brenda, are you aware of the KISSINGCOUSINS-L list at Rootsweb? > >you'd fit right in ... > >Candy >(also eligible, double cousins married each other) >(in small towns, or on the frontier, or in a new colony, >sometimes all there IS, is cousins) > >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Brenda Faye Parker" <fairplay51@yahoo.com> >To: <ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: September 23, 2003 10:14 AM >Subject: [RC-ROOTS] *close* relationships > > > > >>My tree unfortunately on the maternal side has few >>branches. Not because of lack of research but *blush* >>inbreeding. My grandparents were double 2nd cousins. >>My maternal line has the same person in it 8 times. >> >> >> > > > > >==== ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS Mailing List ==== >HOW TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM DIGEST MODE: >please click here and send: >mailto:ROCKINGCHAIR-ROOTS-D-request@rootsweb.com?subject=unsubscribe > >============================== >To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > Would you beleive that I stopped counting at a dozen of the times that sibliings of one family married siblings of another family. That happened three times in one family- that is six siblings had three sets of in-laws. The closest to me on the tree is my own grandparents.Margie