11-17-2018, 08:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 11-17-2018, 08:29 PM by dicappatore.)
(11-16-2018, 08:51 AM)eric Wrote: Thanks to all for the relationship answers. I live in an area where my family has lived since 1765. Most of the offspring live about 30 miles from where the first settlement was. Families that have been here a while are related someway to everyone in the area. And there is a lot of people who look like someone else. Guess this means Nick and Truble could have married and the odds are good that their kids would be Grimms.
Eric, The region I was born in is dotted with small towns. It's non-political area name is Irpina, in the region of Campania, Italy. My town of birth dates back to the 1200 hundreds and sports a current population of around 450. Probably a third more 50 years ago. I recall wondering what side to sit at weddings, since most of the times, both sides were extended relatives of mines, 3rd or 4th cousins. Town folks actually looked forward when some married folks from neighboring towns. As long as they weren't also related.
My surname is comes from a great-great-grandparent from from a neighboring town that relocated to my town. Given the current populations of these towns, I should be referring them as villages. Some of these villages were under 15 kilometers away. So, yea, I had relatives and attended wedding in those towns too. I remember one of my rich cousin wedding reception being held outdoors under a large grape pergola in the town of Pompeii.
My Italian-American wife is 50% Neapolitan, 25% Genoese and 25% Calabrese. So my kids are not inbred
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