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From: "Ronald J. Emery" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Relationship
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 19:38:35 -0500
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Hi Teresa
Saving your discourse on cousins in my special file of brilliant TMG-List
posts
Kindest Regardsw,
Ron

----- Original Message -----
From: "Teresa Ghee Elliott" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:38 PM
Subject: RE: [TMG] Relationship


> 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
> TMG Tips: <http://www.tmgtips.com>;
> My website: <http://www.tmgtips.com/lhoffman>;
> A user of the best genealogy program, The Master Genealogist (TMG)
>
>
>
>
>
>
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