First Degree Consanguinity
First Degree Consanguinity
Consanguinity is the foundation of the laws that govern such matters as rules of Descent and Distribution of concentration, the degree of relative between which marriage is forbid under the laws concerning Incest, and a basis for the purpose of who may serve as a witness. The consanguinity is a more remote relationship informs people who are associate by a common relative but do not descend from each other—such as relative who have the same grandparents.
Relationships, by either blood (consanguinity) or marriage (affinity) were entering, and marriage percentage were granted, by “degree”. A first degree relationship would suggest siblings; a second degree relationship would suggest first cousins; third degree meant second cousins; and fourth degree suggest third cousins. Relationships more upstage than third cousins were not recorded in the marriage records.