When your society has inhabited a small, remote island for countless generations and boasts a population of only 300,000, the odds of having sex with a relative are significant. Luckily, Icelanders now have a handy tool to avoid family-sex.
Íslendingabók—meaning "book of Icelanders"—is an online incest avoidance search engine. Plug in your name and that of a potential mate, and the site searches a genealogical database to see how closely you're related. It's likely that you'll have some overlap many generations back—in which case you're probably safe from mutant children. But if you share great-grandparents, you might want to reconsider your Nordic hookup.

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Not that much different conclusion than that of the Scottish article you recently seeded, CartoonCat. Thanks for seeding it though, since it shows the problem is elsewhere too.
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Catchphrase- "A website to ensure your family tree has branches."
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Well this is probably pretty common and widespread... Think about it... Races and nationalities of old... Chinese, Japanese, scandinavian, Arabic, ... etc. A bunch of closely grouped branches. No? :-).
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Holy-Freholies man, (thinking) well, I guess if they need something like that... They might need to export the kiddies for college or increase possible mates through tourism or lonely hearts websites as well. We would not want any three armed kiddies would we? Hmmmm, three armed kiddies might make good welders....
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I can think of a few states that might benefit from this database.
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cartooncat, you need to introduce the Icelanders to the Scots.
http://cartooncat.newsvine.com/_news/2012/02/04/10319180-scottish-councillor-claims-public-sector-spending-cuts-could-lead-to-unintentional-incestuous-marriages
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Well they're both seeds in his column... is that enough introduction?
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Please no! Then we'll end up with a whole bunch of Kilt wearing blondes with bad teeth playing Abba on the bagpipes! I don't want Take a Chance on THAT!
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Inbreeding can also be used to promote useful traits of the genetic line. It has been used extensively by breeders of horses, cattle, and other animals.
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