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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: ricoba on Tuesday 14 February 12 10:23 GMT (UK)
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If my great great grandmother and her great great grandfather were brother and sister,
what relation would we be to each other?
Missing my chart....somewhere in the piles of files!
Thank you.
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How can the woman's great-great-grandfather be her own brother ???
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Plenty of Charts here http://www.cyndislist.com/cousins/charts/
Stan
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copied from the London Literary Gazette:
A proof that a man may be his own Grandfather.—There was a widow and her daughter-in-law, and a man and his son.
The widow married the son, and the daughter the old man; the widow was, therefore, mother to her husband's father, consequently grandmother to her own husband.
They had a son, to whom she was great-grandmother; now, as the son of a great-grandmother must be either a grandfather or great-uncle, this boy was therefore his own grandfather.
N. B. This was actually the case with a boy at a school in Norwich.
While not frequent, situations such as this do occur occasionally in life, the Bill Wyman/Mandy Smith affair (including his son and her mother) being one celebrity example.
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Hi ,I didn't make it clear,sorry. When I said and'' Her gggrandfather'' I was rude and meant the person I have just found,a new contact.
Thanks for your replies.
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If you would like to be a little more confused, you might like to spend a few minutes watching this - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYlJH81dSiw
Enjoy!
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I think what you are saying is that your g-g-grandmother and your new contact's g-g-grandfather were brother & sister. Am I right?
In which case you are (I think) third cousins. (maybe fourth cousins) It's all very confusing really. ??? ;D
Leonie.
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VERY confusing Ray T. ;D
My son married my third cousin once removed. ;D
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Hey,Great song.
Yes I am thinking we are 3rd cousins too..... by the chart,but then again...?
Thanks for your replies.
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By drawing a simple tree, I make it third cousins as well.
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Hi,
I make it that you are fourth cousins .
To work out the relationship between you and your friend, you go from the common ancestor which would be your g, g grandmother's and her *brother's parents ( *your friend's g g grandfather) . The common/shared ancestor between you and your friend isn't the GG brother and sister - it is their parents , you and your friend's G G G Grandparents (3rd great grandparents) . You are the 3rd great grandchild of that couple and so is your friend - hence making you fourth cousins
If you shared the same
Grandparents - you'd be first cousins
Great grandparents - you'd be second cousins
Great Great Grandparents - you'd be third cousins
Great Great Great Grandparents - you are fourth cousins
Hope that helps
Kind regards :)
http://stellar-one.com/genealogy/cousins.htm
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Thanks for all replies and thanks Cell for making it very clear that we work it out by coming through their parents.So we are 4th cousins.
Cheers
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alternatively, just count the 'Gs' in your relationship to the Common Ancestor - any difference will be the number of times removed....
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Thanks everyone for helping me sort this out,easy when you think about it. :-[
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alternatively, just count the 'Gs' in your relationship to the Common Ancestor - any difference will be the number of times removed....
Hi,
You're welcome Ricoba
Agree with the above quote from TomRees , this is far the easier way to do it, it is the way I do it in my head.
If you want confusing - Just for fun , I once worked out that my mother is my own cousin and my son is too, and even I am my own cousin to myself ;D- I can't remember how many times each were removed to me , as it got it all too weird for me and I ended up totally confusing myself, which isn't hard to do ;D- ( my maternal grandparents were second cousins that married each other )
Kind regards :)
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Hi Cell,My husbands parents were cousins so I suppose he is is own cousin!!
I say(at times)that he can blame them for (all) his faults,having the best and worst from each side of his family.LOL
Thanks again 'tho I wouldn't want to work out your tree.
Cheers