Haha, I wonder if it was actually a blood related cousin or a distant cousin, you know, one of those "twice removed" cousins that by law, are okay to marry.

third cousins is still slightly icky. fourth is clear. It's a big enough difference that it doesn't matter.

Yeah, I didn't know how far it had to be in order for it to be okay.

Genealogy's one of my hobbies. Besides my mom's related to like ninety percet of her hometown. I can never date anyone from that city.

Actually, recent studies have shown that marrying even your second cousin isn't that bad, as long as that doesn't happen all the time. Because then the recessive traits build up. But it takes a couple marriages to build up. That's why small towns don't necessarily have an inbred look to them.

yea, plus you see shojo mangas all the time where some have married their in-laws or cousins XDD

My dad used to do Genealogy a lot. Apparently I'm related to Abraham Lincoln somehow, lol.

Very interesting, Sora!

I think that I'm descended from Fredrick the Great of Germany.
I thought that was fantastic until I read a bit about him. He was a terrible man!

yea, it's true. one manga in particular is "akuma de sourou"
which i think is Devil Beside You, it's about this girl who falls in love with a guy and finds out later that it's her brother in law...........but they still get married and everything XP

Originally Posted by GrannyJ

Very interesting, Sora!

I think that I'm descended from Fredrick the Great of Germany.
I thought that was fantastic until I read a bit about him. He was a terrible man!

What did he do? I don't think I've ever heard of him.

That wouldn't be illegal or even genetically prosccibed. They're not actually related.
For example, my grandparents are technically brother and sister. After they got married, my grandmother's mother married my grandfather's father. They were both widowers. So then my grandparents became each other's step-siblings.

He was a despot, and not a very nice person.
I believe that I read in one place that he regularly had subjects tortured and killed.

Unless they were half siblings. In which case it would be bad. That's worse than cousins, because they share 1/4 of their DNA.

I want to find out more about my Mother's fathers side of the family, because my relatives on her side have already researched her mother's side, because that's their direct relations.

ooof *cracks back*
awwww man my back is killing meh again......school is killing it I tell ya, KILLING! XO
or this desk anyways ^^

I'll be back later. Going out for dinner.

Goodbye, Sora. We will see you later.

Yes, I need a better chair for my desk also, Yami.
Particularly when we have an event like this.

Ooh. Have fun with that Sora. Can I ask where? If you haven't left already.

Hmm. getting hungry.

man, Girl Sora gets dinner and I still have 4 hours to go........RAWR!......
to lazy to climb tree and get paopu fruit XDD

which time zone you in again...oh wait, I remember. Pacific. Didn't you just eat lunch?!!!

Oh, I ate a Subway pizza for lunch, and I am quite filled up.

nope I only get one meal a day at my college and I choose dinner cause it has the best food but it doens't serve until 5 pm XP

Mm. Nummy. I hads mac and cheese.
Your college's meal plan sucks.

It's probably what was paid for.
Ours was the same. You could get the full plan or partial.

The lowest level on-campus plan at my school gives you ninety meals a week.