johntt44
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Dude, you're not helping any, shhhh......Actually in the early days of our great union, it was pretty common to marry cousins and shit. Right up through the early 1900's actually. Marrying in would have been influenced largely by community size, religion, mobility, and social hierarchy.
I believe it's actually even legal in about half the states at this point.
So...there's probably a couple branches tangled in your family tree somewhere.