Do you know what genealogical marriage means? And why do people do it?

Question

I ran across a couple that were married under genealogical terms. What does it mean? Why did they get married that way. Also, the man carried the womens last name so his last name was hypenated.

Answer 1

Kissing cousins is a term understood in a number of ways, including:

Cousins who know each other well enough that they greet with kisses.

Cousins who marry each other; There are many famous cousin couples, for example Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom and her consort Prince Albert. There are several cousin-marriage support and advocacy web sites. In some jurisdictions this would be considered illegal as incest.

Cousins who are related not by blood but by virtue of being part of the same extended family (i.e. cousins by marriage but not marriage to each other). For example, if Alice and Brenda are cousins, and Alice marries Charles, then by this definition Charles and Brenda become kissing cousins; this despite the fact that Charles is already married.

Cousin couples

Cousin couples are cousins that have a romance relationship. It is debatable if these types of relationships are incest or not. In the United States, about half of the states allow 1st cousins to marry and all allow 2nd cousins and cousins of the higher degree to marry.

A team of scientists led by Robin L. Bennett, a genetic counselor at the University of Washington and the president of the National Society of Genetic Counselors, announced that cousin marriages are not significantly riskier than any other marriage. To put it another way, first-cousin marriages entail roughly the same increased risk of abnormality that a woman undertakes when she gives birth at 41 rather than at 30. Banning cousin marriages makes about as much sense, critics argue, as trying to ban childbearing by older women.

Answer 2

Never heard of this, but it sounds like incest. Neither a healthy, moral, legal, nor wise practice. Was it in a culture other than American, or in a religious sect? I know that royalty sometimes promotes cousins marrying, and I think in a few states in the US (?) this is legal.

Answer 3

wow never heard of that before, but sounds like a couple who marry only someone with certain types of genes to not necessary avoid but limit potential birth defects such as mental disorder, health concerns etc... etc... but why the male is given the womens last name I couldn't tell you.

Answer 4

no, but maybe they just used both last names

Answer 5

the hell if i know i didn't know it existed