Joan White (West) - Are those her parents?

confusing maven. nicholas white & nicholas west. joan, joane west, joan white. & the first cousin issue? point? first cousins are not a problem genetically if they marry. do you have more recent information showing it to be a genetic issue.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mrcear/p227.htm
shows nicholas's parents as john west & mary throckmorton.
leonard west & barbara gascoigne were john's parents. geni has it wrong i think. left out a generation.

i have leonard west w/ 7 children. geni has 2.
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mrcear/p227.htm

Genetically they would be first cousins and no more than that - socially, well, people would be likely to make a fuss about it. (They probably made a fuss about stepchildren marrying each other, too.)

First cousins run a slightly elevated risk of undesirable recessives cropping out - this has never changed. If the basic stock is healthy and not previously inbred, it *may* not be an issue.

If you push it too far, you get horror stories like the late Spanish Hapsburgs, particularly Charles II, who was inbred *beyond* what would be expected from brother-sister incest, and much more as though his parents had been opposite-sex clones (i.e., of the *same person*). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_Spain