Family History/Genealogy I am doing it...

[Giovanni Schwartz]

So I was working on my family history (because that's easier to spell), and I found out that I have x-great-grandparents, who married sisters, whose children got married. So they married their first cousins. Also, I told the dragon about it, and he said that somewhere there are some siblings that got married.

Also, weirdest names: Eighth Concubine of Henry VII (no joke), Hepzibah, and Bathsheba.

[Unit of Energy]

I have a great great aunt or something who was named Jeanne d'Arc Marie Mylastname. Yeah, and she married her first cousin at a time in Canadian history when you had to get special permission from the Catholic priest to marry your first cousin.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

That's pretty good... Mine are all direct relations, no great-aunting or anything. Isn't that fun?

[Nanti-SARRMM]

My ancestors on my mom's side were into polygamy before it was the cool thing to do.

[yellow m&m]

My ancestors on my parents side were into polygamy before it was the cool thing to do.

Do you have ancestors who are not on your parents side? What would the other side be?

[Nanti-SARRMM]

My ancestors on my parents side were into polygamy before it was the cool thing to do.

Do you have ancestors who are not on your parents side? What would the other side be?

*ahem* I admit nothing, but I reckon that there is alien experimentation and government research involved.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

I have ancestors the same way! It was when it was still considered awful, before it was considered okay the first time (i.e. 1300's or thereabouts.) I was going back through my family tree, and I saw a button in family search, and so I moused over it to see what it would do, and it said "Show other spouses". WEIRD.

[Nanti-SARRMM]

I have ancestors the same way! It was when it was still considered awful, before it was considered okay the first time (i.e. 1300's or thereabouts.) I was going back through my family tree, and I saw a button in family search, and so I moused over it to see what it would do, and it said "Show other spouses". WEIRD.

this is around 1832 when they were married like that though... It may be that Denmark was weird like that though.

[Katya]

I have ancestors the same way! It was when it was still considered awful, before it was considered okay the first time (i.e. 1300's or thereabouts.) I was going back through my family tree, and I saw a button in family search, and so I moused over it to see what it would do, and it said "Show other spouses". WEIRD.

That's not necessarily what that means. Sometimes it just means that duplicate information was submitted for that person or those parents, and they're not sure which one is correct (i.e., which Jens Jensen it is), so both show up. You can also find "show other parents" buttons, and it doesn't mean that they were poly- . . . parental.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

THe spouses had completely different names. First and last.

[A Mom, but not yours]

Did you check the dates on the marriage? It could be a second wife after the first died or what-have-you. That's not at all uncommon either.

[Katya]

THe spouses had completely different names. First and last.

Right, but you don't know that husbands are the same person (assuming multiple wives). The fact that you've got one record linked to both wives doesn't mean that it's definitely the same person, it just means that two separate genealogists thought that was the right record to link to a particular spouse. With the type of genealogical information available at that time, that wouldn't be hard to do at all. I'd be more inclined to believe it was an actual case of bigamy if the same person had submitted both sets of information or if the information came from the same place (e.g., parish register, etc.).

[Giovanni Schwartz]

I think A Mom But not mine was right. Or that's what it seemed to me at the time.