You might want to count your toes...

Genetics 'R' Us:

Chesley Teed - Twin

When many of our ancestors arrived from other parts of the world, the population of Nova Scotia was very small and most people stuck pretty much to their own communities.  It's not surprising, then, that the families intermingled with cousins marrying cousins and siblings marrying siblings from another family.

My great great aunt, Lucy Jane Bragg married her first cousin Andrew Taylor who is also my 1st cousin, three times removed.

Ezekiel Peers married Mary Teed

Jerusha Peers married Daniel Teed

Elizabeth Peers married her adopted brother, Abraham Brown

Mary Peers married her adopted brother, Isaac Brown

Ephraim Peers married Phoebe Teed

John H. Peers married Eleanor Peers

Daniel Teed married Mary Elizabeth Teed

Thomas Swallow married Hannah Teed

Abigail Teed had an extra toe on each foot.

Alexander Bolding Peers married Catherine Shields, his aunt's sister

There there are the twins:

Elizabeth Ann Taylor (1879 - 1944) (1st cousin, twice removed)
John Woodland Taylor (1879 - 1944) (1st cousin, twice removed)

Grave of Bella Gamble Starritt - Twin of
my Grandmother, Julia West
Gamble Bragg

Julia West Gamble (1883 - 1950) Grandmother
Susan Belle Gamble (1883 - 1940) Great Aunt

Frank Gamble (1880 - 1933) Great Uncle
Flora Ann Gamble (1880 - 1880) Great Aunt

Ernest Crawford Gamble (1885 - 1886) Great Uncle
Martin Luthur Gamble (1885 - 1886) Great Uncle

Lorna Francis Gamble (1917 - 1958) 1st cousin, once removed
Frank Leslie Gamble (1917 - 1941) 1st cousin, once removed

David Tanner Gamble (1928 - 1952) 1st cousin, once removed
Donald Roy Gamble (1928 - 1933) 1st cousin, once removed

Elizabeth A. Teed (1867 - ?) 2nd cousin, twice removed
James Dixon Teed (1867 - 1900) 2nd cousin, twice removed

The Gamble Girls - Back r - l: Julia, Bella,
Hattie.  Front r - l - Ruth and Cousin Annie
Gamble

George Daniel Palmer (1886 - 1886) - 3rd cousin, once removed
William Thomas Palmer (1886 - 1955) -3rd cousin, once removed

James ( Jim) Gamble (1860 - 1928) - great great uncle
Robert (Bob) Gamble (1860 - 1908) - great great uncle

My great aunt Ruth Agnes Gamble was the daughter of a twin, the sister of 3 sets of twins, the mother of twins and the grandmother of twins.

Miscellaneous notes:

If you were a member of the Johnson clan at Truro, there was a probability that you or one of your siblings was deaf.  Related to the Johnsons, the Fulton family had quite a number of children born with a club foot.  If you are a Bragg, it's likely you have icy blue eyes and if you were a Gamble, you might have played the fiddle and laughed a lot (with all those twins - what else could you do?).