Doug, Cousin Marriages are common on Flores because it is such a small Island. I have cousin marriages on both sides of my family tree. If the genes are good, superior decendants can be produced. I have some first cousins on my father's side that married. One of their children married the child of another first cousin of mine making them second cousins who married. This couple had 4 children all of whom are college graduates. One of these four children is now a professor at Boston University. John Vasconcelos
On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:31 PM, <p...@dholmes.com> wrote: > I ran across an old document I had translated about 15 years ago and took > another look. > My first notation was that this couple was related in the second degree. I > never noted whether it was by consanguinity or affinity. > But usually if I didn't note it, it was by consanguinity. > > Well, my second look proved important because I had missed an important > word "duplicado" (duplicate). > > In case you never knew, this means not only they were first cousins, but > first cousins in two different ways. > If you think about it, that means they each shared all four of their > grandparents. They had no ancestors other than what they shared. > Talk about in-breeding. > > Who was this couple? It was the Capitão-mor of Angra. The highest military > rank available. > His name was Manuel Homem da Costa e Noronha Ponce de Leão. > > Find him in any Terceira nobility book to see his illustrious ancestry. > > One might wonder whether their children were born healthy. Well, I don't > know all the facts yet, but I do know they had 10 children. > Three possibly died young - at least I haven't yet noticed them listed as > adults at marriage or as godparents. > A few seemed to have average life spans of at least 60 years. Not yet > sure of the rest. > > I do know they have many descendants today, including some of my cousins. > > Just think how this combined DNA might affect the Family Finder results. > > I just thought it was interesting. > > Doug da Rocha Holmes > Sacramento, California > Pico & Terceira Genealogist > 916-550-1618 > www.dholmes.com > > -- > For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail > (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the > right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my > membership." > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Azores Genealogy" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. > Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en. > > > -- For options, such as changing to List, Digest, Abridged, or No Mail (vacation) mode, log into your Google account and visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/Azores. Click in the blue area on the right that says "Join this group" and it will take you to "Edit my membership." --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Azores Genealogy" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to azores+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to azores@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/azores?hl=en.
