From: "Christopher Ingham" <christopheringham@comcast.net>
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
To: <gen-medieval@rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 1:13 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: Ancestors & Descendants
On Nov 11, 6:43 pm, "Leo van de Pas" <leovd...@netspeed.com.au> wrote:
----- Original Message -----
From: "Renia" <re...@DELETEotenet.gr
Newsgroups: soc.genealogy.medieval
To: <gen-medie...@rootsweb.com
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2007 10:40 AM
Subject: Re: Ancestors & Descendants
Jwc1...@aol.com wrote:
Dear Spencer, Renia , and Mike,
What would you think
of
ancestral cousin as a term or ancestral aunt or uncle for that matter
for back
beyond the great grands ?
Never heard such a term being used.
==================== But why not start using it? It gives scope to talk
about the brother or sister of a distant ancestor without getting
tongue-tied about the exact connection.
You are of course aware that there are precise ways to designate
such relatives: e.g., 23g-grandfather (= grandfather preceded by
twenty-three "greats") and second cousin eighteen times removed.
Christopher Ingham
===== Dear Christopher,
You and I are talking and suddenly I say Joe Bloggs, ok, that is three
generations to my great-grandfather, and then it is, eh ah, is it twenty two
or twenty three generations removed? In such situations you do not have to
be precise. And then an ancestral uncle or aunt would do. When you get crap
like George Bush is a _close_ relative to HM the Queen, then they should be
precise to emphasize that he _really_ is a close relative.
With best wishes
Leo
,
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