Has there been any incest in your family?

As a kid I always wondered why my mom's mom had the same last name as my mom's dad, even before they got married. Well, turns out, my mom's mom's dad is the nephew of my mom's dad's dad. So my mom was the product of incest.

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SW-User

This is really difficult to follow. I think you're saying that your great grandfather is the nephew of your other great grandfather. Both were your Mom's grandfathers. Who were his parents?

ManicMicah · 26-30, M

@SW-User My mom has two parents, i call them Mimi and Papa. Papa's dad is the uncle of Mimi's dad.

SW-User

@ManicMicah Sorry, not any less confusing. I'm still not quite following the incest part. They could still be related by marriage. It's easier when you use great grandparents, rather than their names. Who were the parents of your grandmother's father? Was his mother the sister of your grandfather's father?

ManicMicah · 26-30, M

@SW-User Okay so i don't know too far back, but let's say there's a set of parents. They give birth two people. One of them is my grandpa's dad. His sister gives birth to my grandma's dad. That's how the family is connected.

ManicMicah · 26-30, M

One thing about my mom's family is that unlike me she never really had two different sides of the family, both her parents were in the same family since birth.

SW-User

@ManicMicah Okay. If I were you, I'd do some more digging to find out the connection. I knew someone who's Aunt, his mother's sister, married her own Uncle, his grandmother's brother. It was a big scandal in the family. Lol. They had 2 children btw. One was brilliant, the other one, uh, not so much.

ManicMicah · 26-30, M

@SW-User I mean, there's not much connection more i need to figure out. I guess I could look deeper and see if anyone else had a child while being related to by blood, but as far as my two great grandpas go, mystery is solved, my paternal great grandfather's blood sister gave birth to my maternal great grandfather.

Oh wow, interesting, now that right there is bizarre haha xD i feel like incest is a lot more common than we might think. look back far enough and you may start making connections along the line.