Re: [Cz-L] Fundamental Genealogical Question

Iosif's suggestion about the terminology to use when referring
to specific great-grandparents, is sensible and simple.
When I want to refer to ancestors from previous generations,
I usually draw a very simple family tree, on which I mark
all the people of a given generation.

Mimi

Quoting iosif vaisman <iosif.vaisman_at_gmail.com>:

> Jerome,
>
> here is a suggestion:
>
> [Paternal grandmother]
> Paternal grandmother's mother
> Paternal grandmother's father
>
> [Paternal grandfather]
> Paternal grandfather's mother
> Paternal grandfather's father
>
> [Maternal grandmother]
> Maternal grandmother's mother
> Maternal grandmother's father
>
> [Maternal grandfather]
> Maternal grandfather's mother
> Maternal grandfather's father
>
> Source: http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=20110301001643AAHUTl1
>
> Iosif
>
> On Thu, Mar 13, 2014 at 12:17 AM, Jerome Schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca> wrote:
>> 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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Received on 2014-03-13 09:37:15