Re: ANCESTRY QUESTION?

Herb Huston (huston@access.digex.net)
22 Jan 1995 17:10:40 -0500

Followups to talk.origins.

In article <3fk58j$13g@ns1.arlut.utexas.edu>,
Shirlene Pearson <pearson@titan.tsd.arlut.utexas.edu> wrote:
} It has
}only been fairly recently that first cousins were not allowed to marry.
}Even at the turn of the century in the U.S., you still saw cases
}(many) of first cousin marriages, and such marriages are still allowed in many
}countries outside the U.S.

Marriage of first cousins is not illegal in the state from which I am
posting this article. Check Family Law 2-202, _Annotated Code of
Maryland_.

Can you post a reference to a statute in any of the remaining 49 states
that prohibits marriage between first cousins?

-- Herb Huston
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