Celebrity Weddings

[prisma]

In my mind's eye, Vincent D'Onofrio will always look like he did in Mystic Pizza. I adored him in that movie.

[Carolina]

It's also worth noting that Leila's mom, Greta Scacchi, married and had a son with her first cousin. The poor girl didn't stand much of a chance at a normal life.

[Ladybug]

Aug 4, 2020 21:11:46 GMT -4 Carolina said:

It's also worth noting that Leila's mom, Greta Scacchi, married and had a son with her first cousin. The poor girl didn't stand much of a chance at a normal life.

I am Bert’s “what did I just read” gif

[Ginger]

I kind of feel for Greta Scacchi. She and her cousin did not grow up side by side; I believe she grew up in England and he grew up in Italy. They connected when they were well into adulthood and she says they were in love for 10 years without acting on it because it was so shameful. When they decided they couldn't be happy without being together and came out as a couple, her family disowned her.

I'm still squicked out by them having had a kid together though. She says she did all the research and it's perfectly fine, which could be the official slogan of the International Incest Society.

[Gigiree]

First cousins only share between 7-14% of DNA, so there is a slim chance of fetal abnormalities unless there is genetic mutation both share (which can happen with non-related persons as well). The problems don’t arise unless there generations of cousins breeding with cousins (see European royalty).

[Ladybug]

I remember that 30 Rock episode where Liz was dating a guy and they realized they were related. He tried to rationalize it by saying they were 3rd cousins, maybe 2nd, and she said something like "what level makes this ok?" and was totally grossed out. They did not last.

My family is from a small town in Louisiana and there are about 8-10 core families that have lived there since the 1890s. Folks have moved into the area from NOLA, but it's still heavily populated by all of these families who've intermarried over and over through the years. My ancestry DNA page reads like the local phone book. My cousins and I joke that we wisely stepped outside the local gene pool to find our spouses.

[tabby]

Feb 10, 2006 17:47:02 GMT -4 Ladybug said:

My family is from a small town in Louisiana and there are about 8-10 core families that have lived there since the 1890s. Folks have moved into the area from NOLA, but it's still heavily populated by all of these families who've intermarried over and over through the years. My ancestry DNA page reads like the local phone book. My cousins and I joke that we wisely stepped outside the local gene pool to find our spouses.

A few years ago, someone in Iceland developed an app for Icelanders to use to tell if the person you they met at the bar is related. Iceland has a small, homogeneous population and you could easily meet someone in your own family tree.

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Aug 5, 2020 15:39:12 GMT -4 tabby said:

A few years ago, someone in Iceland developed an app for Icelanders to use to tell if the person you they met at the bar is related. Iceland has a small, homogeneous population and you could easily meet someone in your own family tree.

I believe this app is connected to a genealogical database, Íslendingabók, which has been available to all Icelanders online for at least 20 years. We can all access it via this website for free.
My husband’s great-great-great-great-grandmother was my great-great-great-great-great-grandmother. This person was born in 1759. I think we’re OK!
When I look up Leifur heppni (Leif Erikson) I find out that my great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandparents were his great-grandparents. So, if I had been alive around the year 1000, perhaps any “sexy time” with Leif would have been frowned upon.

[seat6]

My parents are 6th cousins. They had been married over 30 years when they found that out.

I figure everyone is probably 6th cousin to everyone else.

I did date a guy who resembled me and had many of the same genetic traits. We joked that we would need DNA tests to make sure we weren’t related to one another. I don’t think we were, but just like my parents, we were from the same ethnic background, same part of the world, and our families immigrated to the US around the same time.

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I have to admit that one set of my great grandparents were cousins. When pressed, my mother always says they were second cousins, but I kind of have always been suspicious of that. I'm not sure she really knows (maybe she doesn't want to know, lol).