57307--Relatives marrying

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Sat May 01, 2010 11:51 am

http://theboard.byu.edu/index.php?area=viewall&id=57307

Only marginally relevant, but I thought I'd share: LINK

TheAnswerIs42 · Post by **TheAnswerIs42** » Sat May 01, 2010 8:42 pm

Well, that was gross.

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Sat May 01, 2010 9:07 pm

...

All righty then.

Post by **Marduk** » Sun May 02, 2010 7:46 am

Please, no more sharing.

NerdGirl · Post by **NerdGirl** » Sun May 02, 2010 8:38 am

There was another one a few years ago where a couple in Germany or somewhere got married and then found out they were actually twins who had been adopted by different families.

Werf_Must · Post by **Werf_Must** » Mon May 03, 2010 8:47 am

I wonder how the kid will feel about all that

Damasta · Post by **Damasta** » Mon May 03, 2010 1:11 pm

NerdGirl wrote:There was another one a few years ago where a couple in Germany or somewhere got married and then found out they were actually twins who had been adopted by different families.

Hmm...that kind of sounds like the plot to The Broken Sword, by Poul Anderson.

vorpal blade · Post by **vorpal blade** » Mon May 03, 2010 5:56 pm

I think the grandma marrying her grandson story is proof that some forms of insanity are genetic.

My sister met a handsome nice guy at BYU. They dated a few times, and then he took her to meet his parents. Both my sister and her date were amazed that his dad could immediately identify her parents by name (which are very unusual names). Turns out he loved genealogy and my sister and her date were second cousins. The young man suddenly lost interest in dating my sister again.

Post by **C is for** » Mon May 03, 2010 6:05 pm

My sister and her husband are fifth cousins once removed (or something like that). It was easy to tell.

Funny thing is, they're further apart on the family tree than his parents (who didn't know that until after they were married).

They're a great couple, but I can't tell you how tired I am of the "Are you sure they're not related?" question. "Oh! Oh my goodness! We never thought of that! I mean, yeah, they have the same last name but why would we ever do a genealogical check? Thank goodness you asked that, we'll do that right away and call off the wedding!"

*cough*

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Mon May 03, 2010 6:29 pm

Heh. Same last name=funny.

Tao · Post by **Tao** » Mon May 03, 2010 6:53 pm

Same last name save one letter = a pain in the check.

Post by **bobtheenchantedone** » Mon May 03, 2010 8:28 pm

Better than having the same first name.

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Mon May 03, 2010 8:30 pm

Bahaha yeah. Family in our stake =Kim & Kim K_______. Hilarious.

Oh yeah! Another news link, that is slightly relevant to the slightly relevant link I posted earlier:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8658327.stm

Damasta · Post by **Damasta** » Tue May 04, 2010 11:58 am

Well, as long as we're posting ridiculous weddings:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/1 ... index.html

Giovanni Schwartz · Post by **Giovanni Schwartz** » Tue May 04, 2010 2:06 pm

Oh, that's OLD. I mean, it was 2009. And on the internet, that's ANCIENT. [ =