(I did my mum's family tree this summer. I already knew that until the last 100 years practically everybody in Ireland married their cousins to keep farms in the family but it's still weird to see that your great-great grandfather is also your great-great-great grandfather, or a couple with only one set of grandparents between them...)
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Date: 2008-01-23 04:33 pm (UTC)(I did my mum's family tree this summer. I already knew that until the last 100 years practically everybody in Ireland married their cousins to keep farms in the family but it's still weird to see that your great-great grandfather is also your great-great-great grandfather, or a couple with only one set of grandparents between them...)