Interesting! Pedigree Collapse? Hmmmmmmm.....well, we've always said "no wonder the family has problems"<g> Many of my aunts and uncles married half third cousins. My GGgrandmother married several times, but two of her marriages had offspring that intermarried down the line. In fact, my mom, and a close friend of hers in high school found they were related when they were doing a family tree as an assignment in high school! Some of my cousins are related to this same lady (my GGgrandmother) on BOTH sides of their family. Yikes! Mari At 03:37 PM 2/14/02 , KinDetective@aol.com wrote: >I just wanted to say hello to all of you, because you're all my cousins! ><WG> >Someone on another list had a question regarding the proper term used for the >loss of numerical ancestors which occurs to the descendant when related >persons are married. The responses were interesting, ranging from a joke >about calling it incest to those who seemingly were in denial that they could >possibly have had ancestors who were the product of interrelated marriages. >The math is pretty cut and dry, however, and these links lead to interesting >articles on the topic of the Genealogically coined term: "Pedigree Collapse" >Enjoy! > > >http://www.anatomy.usyd.edu.au/danny/usenet/sci.anthropology/archive/january-1 > >995/0213.html > > http://www.generations.on.ca/genealogy/pedigree.htm > >CAUTION: The first link which leads to a mail list / message board for >anthropology can be very distracting! >I got lost clicking link after link, reading a couple of different topic >threads. Could be very divisive to genealogy research, as you may find yo >urself reading through the day, and not tending to those ancestor hunts! > >Smiling to all her kin - the WI Grant List... >Di > > >============================== >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