00:00How did I find out that me and my husband were related?
00:04Well, we were pregnant.
00:06We were pregnant with our first daughter and trying to find a name.
00:11And we figured we would look at some of our family history.
00:14We were sitting on the couch looking at familysearch.org
00:18and looking through my grandma's and grandpa's.
00:22And he pulled out his laptop and was also looking through his account.
00:26And he noticed, oh, that's so funny.
00:28We have a grandma and grandpa with the same names.
00:32And we started looking and the lines started being the same.
00:36Like great-grandma, great-great-grandma, great-great-great-grandma, all the same.
00:40We looked at it closer, realized my grandpa and his grandma are first cousins.
00:50Which would make us third cousins.
00:54And we just kind of sat there for a second trying to figure out,
00:58are we supposed to do something about this?
01:01Should we not have gotten...
01:03What do you do with that information?
01:06I immediately thought, have we done something wrong?
01:09Is there going to be something wrong with my child?
01:12We googled the effects of third cousins marrying each other and having a child.
01:21And come to find out, if you google that,
01:24it says that third cousins are actually producing the best gene pool.
01:31So we're like, great, we should probably have millions of babies then.
01:35We went to a family reunion just this last summer.
01:38And my uncle had put together this long list of quiz questions about our family history.
01:46And we're just going through it.
01:49No one hardly knows anything.
01:51But we get to our grandpa Tucker.
01:55And I realize, oh, Tage, honey, this is your grandpa too!
02:01And it's just this funny thing.
02:03I was like, oh, I forget that my family reunion is also yours.
02:09It's definitely become our best party joke.
02:12We use it all of the time.
02:14When we tell people that we are third cousins, it's just funny.
02:19To my friends, neighbors, family, everyone just thinks it's hilarious.
02:23But it does sound funny.
02:25And it does seem like it needs to come with some explanation and understanding.
02:30So when I shared it on TikTok,
02:33I was a little worried about what everyone was going to say
02:37because I've only just shared it to people that love me.
02:40So, yeah, I can see the comments.
02:43And a lot of people are like, what are you doing? You should leave.
02:46I'm best friends with my third cousin. That's super awkward.
02:49But most of the comments are, that is nothing.
02:53Third cousins have hardly any relation. You're fine.
02:57It just sounds ridiculous, honestly.
03:00It just sounds ridiculous.
03:02But the funny thing about it is it's not dangerous in any way.
03:06And it's not really inappropriate or anything like that.
03:09It just sounds really weird.
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