Re: ANCESTRY QUESTION?

Todd A. Farmerie (taf2@po.CWRU.Edu)
21 Jan 1995 02:23:50 GMT

In a previous article, gans@scholar.chem.nyu.edu (Paul J. Gans) says:

>In the middle ages the Church went to foolish extremes in
>prohibiting marriages between relatives, insisting at one
>point that 40th degree relatives could not marry. Putting
>that aside, the prohibition existed because of the great
>tendency for relatives to marry.
>

The prohibition also existed because then a fee could be charged to have it
waived.

Todd