DNA results and relationship with a close relative

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So my DH took a DNA test and found a close relative via the DNA database. However, I am not sure whether the amount of DNA they share makes sense given their complex relationship. This is much more a curiosity question. So DH and this relative share about 10% of their DNA. This relative is both a half-uncle and a second cousin, but it is more complex than that. Basically, after DH's grandfather had DH's father with his grandmother, he married his niece and had this close relative. However, it is even more complex than that. The niece he married is the daughter of DH's grandfather's brother and DH's grandmother's sister. So in essence, DH's father shares more DNA with this half-sibling than a half-sibling if his grandfather had married a stranger. I would think that DH would share more DNA with this close relative, but am I off in my calculations?

I'm so f'ing lost - can't help you here. Sorry!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your husbands grandfather married his own niece? That is so disgusting. gross.

+1,000. How did he not go to jail?

Who the f*ck did you marry OP??

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your husbands grandfather married his own niece? That is so disgusting. gross.

+1,000. How did he not go to jail?

Who the f*ck did you marry OP??

OMG. You realize that this sort of thing was common even in the U.S. 100 years ago, right?

Yep, and in big cities too. It wasn't just in WV or remote places. Having done records research for several people over the past several years, I can tell you that people have a lot fewer branches on their family tree than they'd like to believe.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So my DH took a DNA test and found a close relative via the DNA database. However, I am not sure whether the amount of DNA they share makes sense given their complex relationship. This is much more a curiosity question. So DH and this relative share about 10% of their DNA. This relative is both a half-uncle and a second cousin, but it is more complex than that. Basically, after DH's grandfather had DH's father with his grandmother, he married his niece and had this close relative. However, it is even more complex than that. The niece he married is the daughter of DH's grandfather's brother and DH's grandmother's sister. So in essence, DH's father shares more DNA with this half-sibling than a half-sibling if his grandfather had married a stranger. I would think that DH would share more DNA with this close relative, but am I off in my calculations?

I had to make one of those investigation walls with all of the red thread that detectives use when they're trying to figure out a murder to follow this one.

Anyone else hear the theme from Deliverance playing?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So my DH took a DNA test and found a close relative via the DNA database. However, I am not sure whether the amount of DNA they share makes sense given their complex relationship. This is much more a curiosity question. So DH and this relative share about 10% of their DNA. This relative is both a half-uncle and a second cousin, but it is more complex than that. Basically, after DH's grandfather had DH's father with his grandmother, he married his niece and had this close relative. However, it is even more complex than that. The niece he married is the daughter of DH's grandfather's brother and DH's grandmother's sister. So in essence, DH's father shares more DNA with this half-sibling than a half-sibling if his grandfather had married a stranger. I would think that DH would share more DNA with this close relative, but am I off in my calculations?

I had to make one of those investigation walls with all of the red thread that detectives use when they're trying to figure out a murder to follow this one.

Anyone else hear the theme from Deliverance playing?

Banjos!

[Anonymous]

Einsteins parents were first cousins. Einstein also married his cousin.

[Anonymous]

Interestingly,
In KY and WV, marrying your first cousin is illegal...but it IS legal in MD, VA, and DC

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/graphics/cousins_042505.html?noredirect=on

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Interestingly,
In KY and WV, marrying your first cousin is illegal...but it IS legal in MD, VA, and DC

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/metro/daily/graphics/cousins_042505.html?noredirect=on

Yes. I was shocked to learn that in an episode of My Big Fat Gypsy Wedding. First cousins from WV had to jump the border to VA to get married. I was so embarrassed for my state.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your husbands grandfather married his own niece? That is so disgusting. gross.

+1,000. How did he not go to jail?

Who the f*ck did you marry OP??

+1

Also, a niece is not necessarily a blood relation... still sounds gross / wrong to me but I have a number of uncles who are family through marriage (ie married my parents’ siblings)

[Anonymous]

It's statistically possible, so just let it go, OP.

[Anonymous]

So what is the question here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Your husbands grandfather married his own niece? That is so disgusting. gross.

+1,000. How did he not go to jail?

Who the f*ck did you marry OP??

He didn’t go to jail because it was long ago in a culture where that type of consanguinity is/was acceptable if not preferable.