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Marriage patterns in two Wiltshire parishes 1754-1914: geographical mobility, consanguinity and illegitimacy

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The article was published on 2011-02-21 and is currently open access. It has received 4 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Geographical Mobility & Consanguinity.

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Kinship Collation: Trends in 19th Century UK kinship networks evidenced from rural Aberdeenshire

TL;DR: Koch et al. as discussed by the authors presented kinship collation, a social history tool that can reveal the sense of community as experienced by past individuals from the mapping of their networks with related people across landscapes, social institutions and economic activity.
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The geography of marriage

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss why people opt for arranged marriages in lieu of the romanticized tales of love that the modern day media glorifies and are there gold standards of perfection.
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An Attempt to Integrate Previous Localized Estimates of Human Inbreeding for the Whole of Britain

TL;DR: The first known attempt to integrate the earlier disparate values of unweighted F% for Britons of British descent for all of Britain are promising and should be useful as reference values in other related studies.
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Coefficients of Inbreeding and Relationship

TL;DR: The importance of having a coefficient by means of which the degree of inbreeding may be expressed has been brought out by Pearl' in a number of papers published between 1913 and 1917.
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In the name of the father: surnames and genetics

TL;DR: Recent studies involving Y-chromosomal haplotyping and surname analysis are promising and indicate that genealogists of the future could be turning to records written in DNA, as well as in paper archives, to solve their problems.
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Kinship, cultural preference and immigration: consanguineous marriage among british pakistanis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present an analysis and interpretation of a high rate of marriage to relatives, especially first cousins, in a sample of second-generation British Pakistanis, and argue that the high rates of such marriage is not a simple reflection of a cultural preference.
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Size and structure of the household in England over three centuries

TL;DR: The paradox that proportion of children in a pre-industrial English community apparently seems to be negatively, not positively, related to its mean household size is registered, and this theme will be taken up in the second article.
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Migration, marriage, and mortality: correcting sources of bias in English family reconstitutions.

TL;DR: The topic of this discussion is the bias in marriage age and life expectancy in family reconstitution data under preindustrial English demographic conditions, illustrated with the MOMSIM microsimulation model.