Re: [Cz-L] Fundamental Genealogical Question

 father's paternal grandfather

father's paternal grandmother

father's maternal grandfather

father's maternal grandmother

mother's paternal grandfather

mother's paternal grandmother

mother's maternal grandfather

mother's maternal grandmother

Still most peoples eyes will roll when using these terms

Oded Blaustein

2014-03-13 6:17 GMT+02:00 Jerome Schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca>:

> Czernowitzers...
>
> You would think I would know this, but I don't, so help me out here:
>
> A person has two parents; 4 grandparents; and 8 great-grandparents, right?
>
> So, when talking about grandparents, there isn't any problem; you have a
> maternal gf and a paternal gf; a maternal gm and a paternal gm, right?
> Easy peasy.
>
> But when talking about great-grandparents, you have eight of them: four
> maternal grand-parents and four paternal grand-parents.
>
> If I wanted to identify (write about) one out of the eight, how would I
> properly do that? For example: What is the proper way to identify my
> grandfather's father on my my mother's side more succinctly than 'my
> grandfather's father on my mother's side'?
>
> Is there a standard way of doing this?
>
> Help?
> jeome
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