Late last summer, Emily and I wowed you with a sadly true tale of how inbred we are. I suggest you go back and read the original post for the whole sordid story (’cause you know, it’s funny), but the short version is that Emily and I are not only first cousins to each other, we are also FIFTH cousins to each other. (And our own siblings).
Back then, my Uncle Paul, my dad’s brother (who is one of the funniest people I know and the person from whom I get my *ahem* unparalled sarcastic wit) left a comment on that post stating that the family tree was even worse on my dad’s side of the family, who are from Virginia. (Emily and I are related on my maternal side via the great state of Kentucky). But I must confess, I thought he must have been exaggerating. ‘Cause it couldn’t get any worse, right?
Wrong. Reeeeeee-ooooong. Last week Uncle Paul sent me an email detailing our tree, or shrub, as it may be more accurately described. I present it to you, in summarized form:
So here’s how it breaks down. This “Mark” character on my family tree is the great-grandfather on both sides of the family to my grandma, and on one side of the family to my grandpa. So, where usually two people would have EIGHT great-grandfathers between them, my grandparents have SIX. Cause three of them?? ARE THE SAME GUY. Sooo….my grandparents are third cousins. My grandmother is also HER OWN THIRD COUSIN. My dad is his own fourth cousin, and I am my own fifth cousin, as well as fifth cousin to both of my brothers.
So, I am a *smidge* inbred.
ON BOTH SIDES OF THE FAMILY.
Incidentally, I am also lucky that I don’t have two heads.
I will not answer questions about the number of my fingers and toes.
Tooooo funny!
OMG. I am glad you recapped this chart… I was so confused.
PS. Even if you had 2 heads You’d still be my friend!
You make inbreeding look good.
All I can say is Oh. My. God. And I thought MY family was bad . . .
I have some friends at church whose family tree is a little lopsided, too. Two of their three kids got perfect & nearly perfect SAT scores. All three kids are brilliant and went to esteemed universities. At least two of them have gone on to get graduate degrees (maybe even all three, I can’t keep up!) All that to say, “inbreeding” obviously doesn’t always have disastrous results! Y’all are also proof of that 🙂
That happens a lot down here!
I’m glad the smidgen inbreds get it! I’m genealogy clueless!
I second what the Moosh Momma said 😉
darn enter button 😉
My family is from Kentucky and Texas. You do the math 😉
I love your inbred adorableness.
Inbred is the new black 😉 🙂
you probably could have gotten a scholarship to college or something for all of that.
I call my mom’s (which is in some way yours) a family stick… because it doesn’t fork off much.
On a side note… I’d blame the inbreeding on your freaky toes, and your brother’s split uvula. I remember shoving a flashlight down his throat to see it once.
rachel-asouthernfairytale – copyright the “inbred is the new black.” I’d so buy one, or two! HILARIOUS!
Now you see why I do not take may genealogy any further than Adam-Eve …..then Charlie. Just leave out all that messy stuff.
I may not have mentioned it, but Cenie and Charles are also related on her father’s and his mother’s sides. One couple. One couple had two children who figure in. They are your great-great-great-great-great-grandparents via Della and Charles M. Sr. Apparently the town was very small! Frankly, I think my astonishing good looks are the result of “keeping the genes pure”…ya know, kinda’ like the Royal Family.
I KNEW it!
Yeah, my grandpa and grandma are third cousins to each other also! Too bad I can’t blame it on KY or VA, because they all live in Crawford County, Ohio 🙂
Yeah, my danish grandparents were first cousins, I totally understand. My father’s side is from a small town in Georgia where everyone is related to every one else. I think my kids will be okay, though, as I snagged someone from Michigan who I brought back to Tennessee. LOL!
ROFL!
I completely understand.
I live in Oklahoma. And, that is next-door to Arkansas.
But I’m not inbred. Trust me, I checked.
And, oh yeah.
I agree with Moosh…
As much as I LOVE your story, I think I can top that!!! My madien name is Smith, my maternal grandmother’s madien name was Smith!!! Tell me it doesn’t get freaky when you’ve got Smith’s on both sides of the family!! They were seperate sets, and my parents were not related, but the sets married into each other and now the famiy tree is one of those knotty, thorny, twisty vines they used to grow around castles to keep people out!!! I’ve got a better one too, next comment….
I have a thrid cousin who has two identical twin grandmothers!!! Yep, you read that right, two identical twins, one with a son, one with a daughter, who decided to have not one, but two children together!!! Think about that, how inbred do you have to feel to say, “This is my grandmother, and this is my other grandmother.” And they look exactly the same!!! ROTFLMAO!!!
It’s working for you; you must have gotten a double dose of the style gene.
😉