Has it ever occurred to you that you may be dating your own xth cousin xth removed or the fact that you may be dating a person that is once the other gender when they are born?
After all, you have 4 grandparents, 8 g grandparents, 16 gg grandparents, 32 ggg grandparents, 64 gggg grandparents, and if anyone that is outside has the same gggg granddad number 4 (since you have 64 and there is no way that you can tell the difference), they are your cousin. and they might have more than 1 kid, so meaning there are much more chances that you may be dating your own xth cousin xth removed. There is no way that you can actually know which person used to be which gender also.
2007-02-23 12:57:54 · 8 answers · asked by Kevin 2 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
I suppose it is better than being your own grandpa!! Now that's a problem.... check this out.
I Am My Own Grandpa
Many, many years ago
When I was twenty three
I got married to a widow
Pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown up daughter
With flowing hair of red,
My father fell in love with her
And soon the two were wed.
This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life.
Now my daughter was my mother,
For she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse
Although it brought me joy,
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy.
My little baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad,
And so became my uncle,
Though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle,
Then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown up daughter,
Who of course was my step-mother.
Father's wife then had a son
Who kept them on the run,
And he became my grandson
For he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother
And it makes me blue.
Because although she is my wife,
She's now my grandma too.
If my wife is my grandmother,
Then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it
It simply drives me wild.
For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw,
As the husband of my grandmother,
I am my own grandpa!
Ray Stevens
2007-02-24 15:10:04 · answer #1 · answered by HSK's mama 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I highly doubt I would be any cousin of my husband. My family moved from the old country here and they married into the same nationality and faith as did their parents and grandparents etc.. (they were quite strict on who was allowed to marry whom).
Today's society however is quite different so the odds are you might be related in one form or another. It's a small world and you'd be surprised as to how many people know a friend of a friend of someone you know.
2007-02-23 21:13:10 · answer #2 · answered by trojan 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
See the answer I gave to GROOVING BUDDY, it is really extensive and his question is going on the same time as yours. I don't know how to paste over this answer to this one. But you can marry your 4th cousin according to the reverend.
2007-02-26 21:14:06 · answer #3 · answered by LINDA D. 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes, like if it was just Adam and Eve in the beginning, incest had to be involved somewhere!
And if you believe in Adam and Eve as the first humans, you'd believe and realize that we're ALL related by blood!!!
Ick....
2007-02-23 21:53:38 · answer #4 · answered by Lauran B. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1 if you are christian, then everyone descended from the same people and
2 they usually have either some characteristicts or male/female stuff
2007-02-23 21:03:07 · answer #5 · answered by zmanzono 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
We are all related.
Adam and Eve are our longest ansestors, even through the flooding of man.
So no, it doesn't creep me out.
2007-02-23 21:07:02 · answer #6 · answered by Multimediaboy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Honey, we all came from the same ancestors...we are all related & we don't really care.
2007-02-23 21:07:08 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
o.o; I don't have to worry about that XD
2007-02-23 21:05:19 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋