When did Virginia start the first cousin's not marrying. My Riley's and Fosters and Smoots and Welchs intermarried with each other thru first cousins. The only branchs of the Riley's (in my line)_ that did not marry first cousins was my great grandfather's branch that moved to Maryland and my "cousin and researcher" branch who moved to Pennsylvania.

Marge, I don't know that VA ever did ban cousin marriages; my family in VA continued it through the early 1900s - well not everybody, but some. I have a cousin out in Indiana that I'm related to 8 different ways and I'm told that's not even close to the record. Pennsylvania, by the way, prohibits all related marriages though they don't specify what they mean or how far relationship carries. I believe Maryland permits it because some of the PA Amish go down there to get married, but I'm not sure of the exact law. Tom Pierce ----- Original Message ----- From: "Marge" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 14, 2007 6:01 PM Subject: Re: [VASHENAN] Marriage record documents and so forth. > When did Virginia start the first cousin's not marrying. My Riley's and > Fosters and Smoots and Welchs intermarried with each other thru first > cousins. > > The only branchs of the Riley's (in my line)_ that did not marry first > cousins was my great grandfather's branch that moved to Maryland and my > "cousin and researcher" branch who moved to Pennsylvania. > > > > > ------------------------------- > 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 >