Quote Originally Posted by Marigold2 View Post
Years ago the royals all inter-married to control lands and keep power.

Also years ago people did not travel much. Two hundred years ago a person lived and died often without traveling more then 10 miles from their birth place.

Many Amish are interbred they are all called Yoder, Miller, and there is a third name that escapes me now. But there is a small pool of maybe a few hundred in some places here and they interbreed.

Even today most people marry someone within a 30 mile radius.

Jeff Foxworthy told a really funny joke

You might be a redneck if you go to a family reunion to pick up chicks.
Is the other name Hershberger? We have lots of them along with the Yoders and Troyers. Troyers make beautiful furniture. The Hershbergers shoe & trim horses. They are a hard working group of people. They originally came from the Pennsylvania area. Around here they were trying to get our local boys to marry their girls.