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Random question ;D
Does it make grammatical sense to say that a great great great uncle (on someones fatherline) is a "paternal ancestor"?
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An ancestor is a parent , a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, and so forth...so strictly speaking the brother of an ancestor
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Ancestors are usually direct line
So for great-uncles etc I would say a "connection"
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An ancestor is a parent , a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, and so forth...so strictly speaking the brother of an ancestor
True enough if you take the animal husbandry bloodline approach to family history. On the other hand, an uncle or a step parent or even a more distant relative or an in-law might be a very key individual in the financial, professional, emotional or intellectual trajectory of a family. I consider all of them to be ancestors who had their input, however minor.
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An ancestor is a parent , a grandparent, great-grandparent, great-great-grandparent, and so forth...so strictly speaking the brother of an ancestor
True enough if you take the animal husbandry bloodline approach to family history. On the other hand, an uncle or a step parent or even a more distant relative or an in-law might be a very key individual in the financial, professional, emotional or intellectual trajectory of a family. I consider all of them to be ancestors who had their input, however minor.
That was not the question!
Is the brother of a direct ancestor your ancestor? No....so brother of ancestor, indirect or extended family maybe, however "financial, professional, emotional or intellectual trajectory of a family" is about family history research.
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As I said, if you take a bloodline approach to things. I just happen to think that people are more than their genes.
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Random question ;D
Does it make grammatical sense to say that a great great great uncle (on someones fatherline) is a "paternal ancestor"?
I believe the term is "ancestral uncle on the paternal side".
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I would think it would be easier to say paternal 3xgreat uncle.
Also, I agree wholeheartedly with Erato. Family and kinship are far more than a genetic inheritance.
Gadget
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I agree with Erato and Gadget. I wouldn't take the term "ancestor" as meaning direct line only, but rather anyone who is in my family tree.
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They are my fathers ancestors = paternal
They are on my mothers side = maternal
Maternal uncle , paternal gguncle. It defines the side of the tree
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Does it make grammatical sense to say that a great great great uncle (on someones fatherline) is a "paternal ancestor"?
I would agree on this as others do as (in my opnion) they're still on a branch of your 'direct' ancestor.
What I don't agree with is when someone refers to their grand parents siblings as being a 'great aunt/uncle'...
A 'great' (to me) would be the sibling of my great grandparent i.e. if people refer to their grandparents' sibling then (to me) they would be my grand aunt/uncle but...each to their own although I find it far easier with how I refer to my ancestors siblings to keep with the prefix e.g....
My grandmother was Mary & my granduncle (Mary's sibling) was John
Annie