You’ve found a cousin marriage in your Family Tree? Don’t worry, that’s totally normal! Today we talk about all you need to know about the history of cousin marriage in Britain.

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A special thanks to the following institutions for their dedication to digitizing historical records and the Public Domain images used in this video, which are over 100 years old:

Yale Center for British Art
National Library of Wales
Digital Commonwealth
Boston Public Library
Smithsonian Institution
Wellcome Collection
Yale University Art Gallery
Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery

Other Images
Ancestry Images “For use as necessary for professional family history research.”

Llanfair Clydogau Church
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/359...
John Lord, 2013, cc-by-sa 2.0

Coedmorfach
https://www.geograph.org.uk/photo/207...
David Morgan, 2010, cc by-sa 2.0

A special thanks to Stephanie Richards for her pictures of the old Presbyterian Academy.

For more info on the history of cousin marriages, check out:
Cousin Marriages: Between Tradition, Genetic Risk, and Cultural Change, by Shaw & Raz, 2015/2020
Cousin Marriage, Then and Now, by Mary Jean Corbett (2013)