dabo man said:
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Of course, given the cousin marriage (consanguinity) in small Utah communities, that may not be a reliable marker, just my guess.
Blue star for consanguinity, a word I'd never seen.
The people here kept fairly meticulous records of births and marriages because of their belief that marriage was for eternity and childbearing would continue in the afterlife. That recordkeeping caught the attention of geneticists who began to use family data and locate disease markers in the family data they collected. Utah is still a treasure trove for genetics studies. People here are mostly English descended mixed with Scandinavians. The city of Spanish Fork near Provo actually had a large Icelandic community early on. The town of Midway in the Heber Valley was settled by Swiss immigrants/Mormon converts and these were somewhat isolated due to geography. I resemble most European-descended Utah people appearance wise: light brown/blonde hair and light colored eyes despite my ancestors traveling the Appalachians and settling in Kentucky, Indiana, Alabama, Mississippi and finally Texas, so until I spoke in my drawl, most assumed Utah ancestry. As I said, that AI depiction is close to reality.
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