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From: "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>
Subject: RE: [TMG] Relationship
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 17:38:43 -0500
In-Reply-To: <6.0.0.22.2.20040601175813.039b4ca8@pop3.norton.antivirus>


Where I come from these are your cousins and the description there of: (note
they are NOT genealogically correct.

Your mother's siblings children-cousins (unless they live with you, then
they are "brothers" or "sisters")

Your grandmother's sibling's children- cousins.

Your grandmother's sibling's grandchildren- cousins.

Your mom's best friend's children- Cousins. She is known as "Aunt Betty"

The children of your aunt's new husband and his first wife (no blood
relationship to you)- cousins.

The children of your Aunts and Uncles-in-law that they have with their next
spouse after they divorce your blood Aunt or Uncle-Cousins (most of the
family like the in-laws better anyway.) Unless of course, he marries your
mom, then they are brothers and sisters. <G> You can choose to call his
children with your aunt your brothers and sisters, or cousins. Depends on
how well you like him. <G>

Anyone who comes to a family reunion and is friendly is of course a cousin.
<G>

Second Cousins or kissing cousins are those that share a common ancestor
that you never heard of yet you know you are kin somehow.


Teresa Ghee Elliott
Any information I give that you can't find in your version of TMG 5.1 is
probably due to customization on my part.
For Rutherford County TN Cemeteries www.Rutherfordcemeteries.home-page.org
For TMG sentences
<http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~rutherfordcemetery/TMG.html>;

 


-----Original Message-----
From: Lee Hoffman [mailto:]
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 4:58 PM
To:
Subject: RE: [TMG] Relationship

Darrell Martin wrote:
>I agree with you about terminology, but I think your reasoning on the
>genetic side is faulty.

I didn't say anything about genes. I was talking about blood relationships
as opposed to non-blood relationship and sharing of ancestors. True, the
sharing of ancestors means that genetic sharing has a greater probability.
SNIPPED

Right. This and the usual "half-" and "double-" relationships are really
social relationships more than anything else. My wife has 16 first cousins
of which five are almost double first cousins. Almost is due to the fact
that her mother and her aunt are half-sisters (same mother), and her father
and uncle are full siblings. So would that be "one & a half cousins"
again? Yeah, right! Yuch!! It's a lot easier to say "double" and most
people understand -- even though it is not a recognized (by any authority)
as a valid term. But in any case, it is more social than biological
anyway. Her relationship to her double cousins is no closer than her
other cousins although each recognizes the relationship as "special".


Lee Hoffman/KY
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