I have a good variety of ancestors - lots of rural people who mostly lived fairly regular lives and generally all had to get married, with a fair whack of intermarrying and even one very dodgy marriage which is a man marrying his half sister's daughter :S.
My urban ancestors are fairly varied - I have some weaving ancestors who were wealthy and had descendants stayed wealthy and some who descended down into poverty (my line!) and a lot of Irish and French immigrants. It's the poorer ones who didn't marry or moved on from regular relationships and sometimes into oblivion.
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