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Quote from: shadowwind2112 on Saturday 16 July 22 16:16 BST (UK)

is it possible to be related not via blood, but distantly via marriage?

If you really want to include the 'person' as part of your family tree, the term I would use is 'connected' via several marriages to the husband of your g g/aunt.

The definition you gave...

"5th cousin of wife of 2nd cousin 4x removed of husband of 2nd cousin of husband of great-grandaunt"...

clearly shows no 'relationship' to your family although there's a very remote 'connection' to the husband of your g g/aunt.

As an example, my maternal aunt married & her husband became my uncle (through marriage) & their children are my 1st cousins.

In no way am I 'related' through marriage to anyone else in my uncle's family no matter how close or distant to him...

He married my bloodline aunt (sister of my mother) & any relationship with him & his wider family ends there as nobody else in his family is 'related' to me via that marriage.
If I was talking to someone who knew my uncles' sister, I wouldn't say I was related to her because I'm not, not even through marriage.
To explain any 'connection' to my 'family', I'd say she was 'related' to my cousins as she's their aunt & no relation to me.

That's the best I can explain your very remote 'connection'.

Annie

So basically my friend is very distantly related to me, via not a bloodline relative? A simple yes/no answer

Short version: They don't look like a blood relation. There are marriages in between.

Your great-grandaunt had a husband. He had a female 2nd cousin. She had a husband. He had a male 2nd cousin 4x removed. He had a wife. Your friend is a 5th cousin of the wife.

However, if both your families have lived in the same area for a long time, or are from the same area in another country, you could be blood related more closely than that.

But does it mean that I am related to them via Marriges that have happened?

A number of years ago, ten years ago to be exact, I was on holiday in Torquay, and on this particular evening - I was talking on a thread on Faceache, about Staffies (the dogs) and was defending this person who was also commenting, so I added this person in question who I was talking to. Fast forward and after months of talking to each other in texts and via phone calls, we meet each other at a local coffee shop, and again a couple of months later in July 2012.

Of course one thing leads to another and I remember her saying to me in 2019 the following,

wouldn't it be strange if we were related to each other, yet epic at the same time.

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Of course in 2020 lockdown came, and with time on my hand I decided to delve deeper into my family tree, and it turns out that she is related to me via the husband of my great grandaunt, who was married to my great granduncle (if I am not mistaken). Through his side of the family his side of the tree eventually leads me to the husband of my friend's cousin. So for ten years I have had the most epic of friends, only to recently discover she is distantly related to me.

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Are you sure about that, because this tree, says the opposite

As advised on your previous thread - the trees you are looking at contain many inaccuracies.  Those inaccuracies are well documented by various RC members in that thread.   

Have you read those replies and researched the details given?

If you are still uncertain - perhaps you need to contact the actual tree owners and discuss the content of their trees with them in the light of the replies you have received as we just appear to be going over the same ground covered in your earlier thread

Eeerrrrmmmm that tree is actually correct as I have heard from the owner. Again being rude is what you are.

A quick one, but I am looking for a link between the following,

1/. "Andrew Severn
B:18 Nov 1878 Codnor, Derbyshire, England.

D:Jun 1953 Mansfield, Nottinghamshire, England."

2/. "Edwin William Severn
B:April 1839 Codnor, Derbyshire, England.

D:1925 Codnor, Derbyshire, England."

3/. "William Severn
B:1796 Codnor, Derbyshire, England

D:08 Jan 1879 Codnor, Derbyshire, England"

4/. "John Severn
B:10 Mar 1750 Greasley, Nottinghamshire, England

D:Abt. 1813 Greasley, Nottinghamshire, England"

which will lead to eventually the following

1/. "Elizabeth Severns
B:1779 Greasley, Nottinghamshire, England

D:1844 Greasley, Nottinghamshire, England"

And any "Birkin" links that can be linked to the first "Severn" family members above