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From: Mary Moeller <>
Subject: Re: [KISSINGCOUSINS] Still Here
Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:16:37 -0700 (PDT)
In-Reply-To: <406.5044b480.32421386@aol.com>


Maybe native american? they very little rights
and would have tried to marry within there own
group however big or small that might be. I have
a gggrandfather who went to sweden and married
there. why i do not know. so that particular
marriage record is hard to get to

--- wrote:

> In a message dated 9/19/2006 8:49:24 A.M.
> Pacific Daylight Time,
> writes:
>
> i sometimes run into this but generally i am
> trying to place the families... like a briggs
> family that marries about 3-4 tallmans and some
> are dispersed around 3-4 families and then
> they
> marry again into the family... then i go back
> and
> try to find the parents because it becomes a
> family affair... sort of like the 'i'm my own
> grandpa' syndrone...
>
> I think of this as a "clan system" and wonder
> why mine didn't marry outside
> of a few families until they moved away from
> the area in PA where they lived
> for at least 4 generation and 100+ years. My
> family even went so far as to
> marry the cousins from 2 States away which
> makes me wonder if some of the
> marriages might have been arranged.
>
> One reason why clans, or isolate groups, marry
> only within the group is to
> protect land or wealth and sometimes due to
> religious beliefs. Well my
> ancestors did own land but were far from
> wealthy. That leaves a couple of reasons.
>
>
> Religion is a possibility since I am not
> finding any church records for them
> in the communities that they lived in although
> by 1870 my direct line left a
> bible record. Another is the race issue. My
> ancestors were often listed as
> mulatto or colored in the census and sometimes
> white but also often had
> white spouses - or spouses that could pass for
> white. I haven't confirmed an
> Indian ancestor nor a Black ancestor so what
> race or color they were remains to
> be determined although I am leaning toward
> tri-racial.. All of the greater
> family that I have found have been passing as
> white for about 3 generations
> and most of us had no clue about it until we
> went to the census. Of course we
> didn't know much about the cousin marriages
> either until our research started.
>
> Jan in WA
>
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