Re: [Cz-L] Fundamental Genealogical Question

The Germans are more resourceful:
 For third generation they have Ur- prefix :
  Urgrossvater, Urgrossmutter.
   Urenkel for grandgrand children.
    May be extended by Ur -Ur
Hardy

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jerome Schatten" <romers_at_shaw.ca>
To: "Czernowitz Discussion Group" <czernowitz-l_at_cornell.edu>
Sent: Thursday, March 13, 2014 6:17 AM
Subject: [Cz-L] Fundamental Genealogical Question

> 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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