“I Discovered I Was Married to My COUSIN While I Was Pregnant”

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Credit: SWNS / Marcella Hill  A married couple were astonished to discover they were actually COUSINS.  Marcella and Tage Hill, both 42, were browsing their respective family trees on an ancestry website called Family Search to get ideas for a name for their then-unborn first child.  At first they thought their great great grandma just had the same name - but soon the penny dropped that they were actually related.  Marcella and Tage discovered they had the same great-great-grandma, making them distant - or third - cousins.

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00:00How did I find out that me and my husband were related?

00:03Well, we were pregnant.

00:06We were pregnant with our first daughter and trying to find a name and we figured we would look at some of our family

00:13history. We were sitting on the couch looking at familysearch.org and

00:19looking through my grandma's and grandpa's and he pulled out his laptop and was also looking through his account and

00:27he noticed, oh, that's so funny. We have a grandma and grandpa with the same names and

00:32we started looking and the lines started being the same like great-grandma, great-great-grandma, great-great-great-grandma, all the same.

00:40We looked at it closer, realized

00:44my grandpa and his grandma are

00:48first cousins,

00:50which would make us third cousins and

00:54we just kind of sat there for a second trying to figure out are we supposed to do something about this?

01:00Should we not have gotten? What do you do with that information?

01:07I immediately thought have we done something wrong? Is there going to be something wrong with my child? We googled

01:14the effects of third cousins

01:18marrying each other and you know having a child and

01:22come to find out if you google that it says that third cousins are actually producing the best

01:30gene pool. So we're like great. We should probably have millions of babies then. We went to a family reunion

01:36just this last summer and

01:38my uncle had put together this long list of quiz questions

01:44about our family history and we're just going through it, you know, no one hardly knows anything

01:51but we get to our grandpa Tucker and

01:55I realized oh

01:57Taige, honey, this is your grandpa, too

02:02Funny thing I was like, oh, I just I forget that my family reunion is also yours

02:08It's definitely become our best party joke

02:11We use it all of the time when we tell people that we are third cousins. It's just funny

02:18To my friends neighbors family everyone just thinks it's hilarious

02:23but it does sound funny and it does seem like it needs to come with some explanation and

02:29Understanding. So when I shared it on

02:32TikTok I was a little worried about what everyone was going to say because I've only just shared it to people that love me

02:40So yeah, I can see the comments and a lot of people are like, what are you doing?

02:45You should leave like I'm best friends with my third cousin. That's super awkward

02:49But most of the comments are that is nothing like third cousins have hardly any relation like you're fine

02:57It just sounds ridiculous. Honestly, it just sounds ridiculous

03:02It's not but the funny thing about it is it's not dangerous anyway, and it's not really any

03:08Inappropriate or anything like that. It just sounds really weird

03:15You

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