Anonymous wrote:In olden days people like Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Roosevelt,
Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Queen Elizbeth, Queen Victoria etc married their cousins but genetic research changed that, now people don't even consider their fourth cousin, twice removed.
For whatever reason, it is still legal for second cousins to marry in all US states. First cousin marriages are permitted in: Alabama, California, Colorado, Connecticut, the District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Jersey, New York, New Mexico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and Vermont.
So true. I’m a white woman and my grandmother who I had a generally great relationship with set me up on a blind date with my third cousin when I was still single at the ripe old age of 19.
Still happens but now there’s the obfuscation of OLD to hide it. I know several marriages that started with swiping right on their third cousin. I’m sure that wasn’t a coincidence.