Sunday, May 31, 2020

What does 2nd or 3rd degree of relationship mean?

When you are researching your family history, one of the thing you can notice in the marriage notes are dispensations (permissions) to marry because of 2nd, 3rd or 4th degree of relationship. Well, we can translate that one quite easily - but what does it in fact mean?

There are two types of relationship - by blood (consanguinity) and by marriage. Some of the law systems (such as Catholic church law) have a rule that you are not allowed to marry your close relatives. It's originally more a property concept than a health one, but it was known since ancient ages that if you marry close relative there was quite high probability the children will have health (or mental) issues.

So there were rules in place which set who you were allowed to marry. And there was created a chart of blood relationship degrees to show when you needed a permission from the church. And back in 1700s one of the KmetinÄ›ves priests draw this wonderful table to make it clear: 


First degree is clear - it's prohibited to marry your brother/sister. But it was also prohibited to marry your brother's widow/sister's widower because from the church law point of view by marriage they became your siblings. In this case you were allowed to ask for a church dispensation to marry your deceased sibling's partner - and you usually received it. 

Second grade of consanguinity are first cousins. They were allowed to marry - but they had to ask for papal dispensation. And it was given only in specific cases - such as if the bride was pregnant. 

Third grade are second cousins (one of the great-grandparents is the same for both). If they wanted to marry they needed arch-bishop's permission. 

Fourth grade are third cousins (one of the great-great-grandparents is the same). They needed "just" bishop's permission. 

Third and fourth grade marriages were quite common - it was almost impossible to find someone not related in those areas which were geographically distant from other places (such as towns in mountain valleys etc.).

And what if the uncle wanted to marry his niece? Then the "shorter" relationship to the joint ancestor was counted - it was considered as if they were siblings, but they were allowed to ask for papal permission to marriage. 

Note: These rules were valid for everyone, even the noble families. But the noble families usually had larger chance to get papal permission than the common families. And it was even more complicated to find someone unrelated...

4 comments:

  1. How did people receive the dispensation - either from the pope or a bishop? Are there existing records documenting the permission?

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    1. They wrote a letter (well, the priest from their parish wrote the letter) and sent it to the bishop's office. If the relation was too close, the letter was forwarded to the pope's office. I'll write a post about it, thanks!

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  2. There is a parallel aspect of this question when it comes to researching DNA matches. It's often called "degrees of separation." I don't think I can include my chart here, so I will try to explain in words. Picture a typical family in chart form. To determine how many degrees of separation between you and your target, count up how many people that you MUST cross through as you follow the lines. From Me to a parent- one degree. From me to a full sibling- I do not have to follow the line to my parents, as I can "cut across" to the sibling. Again, 1 degree of separation. But, if I have a half-sibling, I DO have to go up to the common parent before moving back down, so there are 2 degrees of separation. It's easy enough for most people who are related in a straightforward way, but more complicated if there is some extra factor. E.g., my ggf's niece married my ggm's younger brother, so there is a closer relationship than either one taken alone. However, if the complicating factor is several generations back, random selection of DNA makes each path so small that even adding the relationships together is obscured by the low level of each relationship. The reason I consider degrees of separation so important is that you can easily establish the AVERAGE expected DNA match to a person. Each degree of separation halves the expected level of shared DNA. Me- 100% with myself. Parent or sibling, 1 degree- means 50 match. Grandparent, aunt/uncle, niece/nephew- 2 degrees means 25% match. 1st Cousin- 3 degrees (12.5%) Remember- the only % that is known with certainty is the parent/child relationship. After that it is a matter of statistical probability and "normal" ranges. "Normal" has a strict mathematical meaning when used this way- a 90% probability that your match will be in this range. In one of my branches, there were 123 grandchildren, so 12 of them would likely fall outside the "normal" range when looking at DNA test results. And every unusual "roll of the dice" will carry through from that point on.

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