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Richard,
Regarding your question: There are many people who married their cousins in many Acadian strongholds, due to the fact that that was all there was to marry; very few outsiders. The Acadians as most French,m encouraged marriage within their race for cultural and religious reasons. As for cousins, only so many ancestors settled in a certain region; it's a fact of life that their descendants would all be related further on down the line, as in the case of my families who all lived on an island.
As for siblings being cousins; this is a bit impossible, don't you think. Siblings are siblings; cousins are cousins. Several siblings of one family may have married their cousins from another family, butr as you have expressed it, it would be impossible. How can someone be their brother's cousin without being a cousin to himself? As for being 3-7th cousins to their spouses, this could well be the reality in such tightly knit communities as Petit-Rocher, as well as elsewhere in the Acadian settlements of the Maritimes. Dennis Boudreau
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