The Cousin Explainer is very helpful

[Mindysan33]

Did she really need to refute it?

[FGD135]

[Dioptase1]

I tease my in-laws about Kentucky being famous for incest. But in truth, I think there might have been a time long ago when cousins married, but nowadays it’s extremely taboo in Kentucky. In a sort of a “FU everyone for looking down on us!” sort of thing.

As for your other questions, they are sort of answered in the table. For Kentucky, in order: unknown, probably (otherwise, how can you criminalize it), and yes.

[Dioptase1]

For the sake of our kids, I kind of wish she would!

[Fortran]

We need a chart for East Peck

[PsiPhiGrrrl]

Nope. This chart is a bit confusing with the focus on the relationships to the box labeled YOU and descendants of most of the other relatives in the tree. Basically, “removed” means the two relatives are not in the same generation. Your cousin’s kids and your kids are second cousins.

To your cousin’s kids, you are a first cousin once removed. The same can be said by your kids about your cousin. Each generation up or down the tree adds to how far removed from people of the same generation. For example, my grandmother’s cousins are my first cousins twice removed.

[Professor59]

“Cousins Chart”. Or as they call it in the Royal Family, your “Dating Pool”.

[stinkinbadgers]

@pesco

This chart is very helpful though it lacks the category of “kissing cousin.”

It’s also missing “country cousin”

[navarro]

two of my great-great uncles were twins. they married a pair of twin sisters. their children were double first cousins. their childhood photos showed a remarkable similarity but by the time i knew them as my elderly first cousins twice removed most of the close resemblance had passed, as did they not too long after that.

@anon24181555

I have no cousins.

you have no first cousins. unless all of your grandparents were only children or their siblings never reproduced, you almost certainly have some 2nd, 3rd, or 4th cousins or other cousins at some remove.

edited to clarify the relationships of the twins to me.

[anon24181555]

I qualify for membership in The Mayflower Society, as do 30 million others, so, yeah, you caught me. I have cousins. Not to mention we all have a common ancestor.

[Bloo]

Found this color-coded version somewhere on the 'net a few years ago, I think it’s a little clearer

[taj]

I’ll see that and raise with:
My mom and her older brother married a set of double cousins. (Making the double cousins also siblings in-law, and the kids confused. )

[bheerssen]

Apropos…

[jpc2769]

Thanks! For the first time in my life I finally understand what “X removed” actually means!

[Alfred_Packer1]

With a chart of that depth you should probably be able to find one person who has done something worthwhile with his/her life.

[Bunbain]

Could be a reference to the old folk song “I’m my own grandpa?”

Over fifty comments and no one posted it yet?

Lonzo & Oscar - I'm My Own Grandpa - 1947

Here’s the text of this little gem for all my video-haters out there:

Now, many many years ago
When I was twenty three
I was married to a widow
Who was pretty as could be

This widow had a grown-up daughter
Had hair of red
My father fell in love with her
And soon the two were wed

This made my dad my son-in-law
And changed my very life
My daughter was my mother
'Cause she was my father’s wife

To complicate the matters
Even though it brought me joy
I soon became the father
Of a bouncing baby boy

My little baby then became
A brother-in-law to dad
And so became my uncle
Though it made me very sad

For if he was my uncle
That also made him the brother
Of the widow’s grown-up daughter
Who, of course, was my step-mother

I’m my own grandpa
I’m my own grandpa
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
I’m my own grandpa

My father’s wife then had a son
That kept them on the run
And he became my grandchild
For he was my daughter’s son

My wife is now my mother’s mother
And it makes me blue
Because, she is my wife
She’s my grandmother too

I’m my own grandpa
I’m my own grandpa
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
I’m my own grandpa

Now, if my wife is my grandmother
Then, I am her grandchild
And every time I think of it
It nearly drives me wild

For now I have become
The strangest case you ever saw
As the husband of my grandmother
I am my own grandpa

I’m my own grandpa
I’m my own grandpa
It sounds funny I know
But it really is so
I’m my own grandpa

[Gyrofrog]

Hey, I resent resemble that meme…*

*(the family tree merges)

@bobbymartin2

I am from Arkansas.

Tennessee. And, yeah, it wasn’t a Jerry Lee Lewis-type of situation. My dad’s last name, and my mom’s mom’s maiden name, are the same, but it’s also a somewhat common name in that area so it didn’t raise any red flags. They figured it out years later.

@evilkolbot

The more nine-great grandparents you have (max 1024) the healthier and more beautiful you’re likely to be. Probably.

My wife’s from Ethiopia (where, IIRC, they’re supposed to be able to count back 5 or 6 generations before marrying), so I guess that partially undid the merging that my side brought to the table.

@Kevin_Bingham

So my buddy’s brother married a triplet.

I got a headache before I finished the rest and my brain went here:

HE'S HIS OWN GRANDPA by Phil Harris 1947

(@Bunbain beat me to it, but this is the version I’m familiar with)

EDIT: Why do I imagine The Cousin Explainer as the title of a stag film?