Whoa! Support group? This was a very common practice in past centuries because of the paucity of eligible marriage prospects. The royalty of Europe intermarried so often that they had to pay for dispensations. That Henry VIII couldn't buy one was so unusual that the course of history was changed.
Egyptian siblings HAD to marry each other. In the USA, the high mortality rate of children together with small, isolated communities many times resulted in the children of siblings marrying each other. It was an unusual occurrence; not a practice, as it was in European and other aristocracies. CE From: RICHARD SCHULTHIES [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, May 19, 2010 8:33 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] When a married couple have the same grandparents, how highlight this? You are saying, if I am translating this correctly, that the children of the grandparents are full siblings to each other? In some cultures that is not illegal nor immoral, but most societies frown on it. In other societies, third cousins needed permission to marry from the 'leaders'. What do you want the computer to do? This is a possible judgement taboo, not a physically impossible one. On a documentary I saw last year it was of British couples doing this and they had formed a 'support' group. If I am reading the situation wrong, I am sorry. Rich in LA CA Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
