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If your grandmother is someone else's great-grandmother, what does that make you and the someone else to one another?
What if the grandmother/great-grandmother had two husbands, and you're descended from one man and the someone else from the other?
What if the grandmother/great-grandmother had two husbands, and you're descended from one man and the someone else from the other?
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Date: 2008-01-23 04:33 pm (UTC)(I did my mum's family tree this summer. I already knew that until the last 100 years practically everybody in Ireland married their cousins to keep farms in the family but it's still weird to see that your great-great grandfather is also your great-great-great grandfather, or a couple with only one set of grandparents between them...)
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Date: 2008-01-23 04:38 pm (UTC)If I could follow my father's family tree back to Ireland, I guess I'd find the same thing. And this on top of the subsequent generations of inbreeding in Newfoundland. That would make it all extra-scrambly, and I might find out that I'm my own great-aunt or something. :-)
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Date: 2008-01-23 04:45 pm (UTC)Oh... here, take a look at this table: http://www.borisbrooks.com/genealogy/cousins.htm
It gives a handy chart for figuring this sort of thing out.
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Date: 2008-01-23 04:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-01-23 04:58 pm (UTC)of course, I also thought the answer to this riddle was aunt once removed, not first cousin once removed.... *is confused*
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Date: 2008-01-23 05:04 pm (UTC)For instance, I live next to My Cousin Up the Hill; his sons, Twitchy Sportskid and Screaming Monster are my first cousins once removed, and they are second cousins to my offspring Miss Perfect and the Manchild.
Julia, what I need is a word for my cousin's cousins on the other side of the family and my cousin's ex's child by another man...
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Date: 2008-01-23 05:16 pm (UTC)It looks to me like first cousin, once removed could also be aunt, once removed, but I've never actually heard anyone use that terminology.