We realized we were all family , the kin got together for a barbecue and we laugh about this shit today. I personally find incest icky and yukky, yet I would not call for the blood of any adults who practiced it consentially.Today, only six states allow marriage between first cousins, but bans on marrying one’s cousin only just started popping up in the last century. Giuliani thought Regina Peruggi was a third cousin, but he later discovered she was his second.Records released last week, and verified by genealogists Elaine and John Hitchcock, show that Al, 45, and David, 47, are sixth cousins, through their five-times great-grandfather, William Makepeace Thackeray, the 19th-century poet and Vanity Fair novelist, who died in 1863, aged 66.

His paternal grandfather, Henry Carlton Cumberbatch, also served between 19 as a Sub-Lieutenant, Lieutenant, and Lieutenant Commander, with records describing him as a “crack shot with a rifle” on top of his “good physique and forceful personality”.The chart shown above makes distinguishing relationships quite simple providing the user is able to trace back to the common ancestor.Finding the common ancestor is of critical importance, and yet is frequently overlooked.Cousin marriages have been very common in the subcontinent and this may be one reason why quite a large number of people in our rural areas are so unhealthy.I personally know two families whose members are the products of many generations of inbreeding.