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Relationships

Now that you are the family historian you will be expected to be able to tell members of your family the degree of relationship they have to another member, for example to the lady who just emailed you from Australia, or the ‘cousin-of-some-sort’ who has the family bible.

There is a simple way to calculate in your head the relationship between any two people who share a common ancestor. First decide what relation the common ancestor is to each of you. Then count the ‘G’s’ i.e., the number of greats and grand and that number is your cousinship. For example: If you share a 3rd Great Grandfather this makes 4 ‘Gs’ (great, great, great grand) and thus you are 4th cousins. If the number is different, say it is your 3rd GG and her 4th GG, then take the lower number for the cousinship and add ‘once removed’, since you are one generation ‘out-of-kilter.’ In this case you would be 4th cousins once removed. Simple ain’t it! This works for most situations that you are likely to run into with living people. For the more obscure situations there is a standard chart which is reproduced here.

Relationship Chart 4GG father	---	---	---	---	---	---	4GG uncle 3GG father	---	---	---	---	---	3GG uncle	1c 5r 2GG father	---	---	---	---	2GG uncle	1c 4r	2c 4r GG father	---	---	---	GG uncle	1c 3r	2c 3r	3c 3r G father	---	---	G uncle	1c 2r	2c 2r	3c 2r	4c 2r Father	---	Uncle	1c 1r	2c 1r	3c 1r	4c 1r	5c 1r Yourself	Brother	1st cousin	2nd cousin	3rd cousin	4th cousin	5th cousin	6th cousin Son	Nephew	1c 1r	2c 1r	3c 1r	4c 1r	5c 1r	6c 1r G Son	G Nephew	1c 2r	2c 2r	3c 2r	4c 2r	5c 2r	6c 2r GG Son	GG Nephew	1c 3r	2c 3r	3c 3r	4c 3r	5c 3r	6c 3r

Notes on using the Relationship Chart 	The relationships all refer to Yourself on the chart. 	Male gender has been used although both are implied. 	Those joined by horizontal lines are siblings. 	Those in one vertical column are in a direct lineal descent (father-son- grandson etc.) 	Those in same horizontal row are of the same generation. 	1c 2r = First cousin once removed etc. The term ‘removed’ just means ‘of a different generation’. ‘Once removed’ being one generation removed from yourself. 	To your 2GG father you are his 2GG son, likewise to your 4GG uncle you are his 4GG Nephew. 	1st cousins share the same grandparents, 2nd cousins the same GG parents and so on.

Instructions 1. Those of your generation and their descendants a)	Your generation includes your brother, and all 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc. cousins who form the Main Cousin Line across the Chart. b)	Starting with Yourself your brother is to the right. His son is your nephew, his grandson your grand (or great) nephew etc. c)	Your father’s brother is your uncle. His son is your 1st cousin, his grandson your 1st cousin once removed, and his GG son is still your first cousin but twice removed because he is two generations different from yourself. d)	You can extend this to your grandfather’s brother and his descendants, working to the right and downwards as before.

2. Those of previous generations (above the Main Cousin Line) This is a little harder as we are not so used to it. a)	The terms 3c 2r etc. are used slightly differently above the Main Cousin Line. b)	The easiest one is 1c 1r. Your father’s first cousin is of the same generation as him, and thus ‘once removed’ from you, but he is still a 1st cousin. c)	Following this progression vertically, (you will actually be moving NE on your chart), your grandfather’s 1st cousin is your 1c 2r, and your GG father’s 1st cousin is your 1c 3r. The amount of removal changes because they are of different generations. d)	Following it horizontally from 1c 1r (with whom you share descent from your GG father), your 2c1r shares descent from your 2GG father, and your 3c 1r from your 3GG father. The cousinship changes because they share less and less common heritage.

Lists of Ancestral Names & Places

Keeping an up-to-date list of your Ancestral Surnames and Ancestral Places in your briefcase is incredibly useful in focussing your endeavours and saving time when browsing book indexes or lists of films in at your FSC, or when contacting possible cousins. The list was typed once onto the computer and then sorted two ways and given appropriate headings, and it is thus quickly updated as research proceeds. When you join a FHS you will be asked to provide at least the first list of Ancestral Surnames for publication in their journal to assist in contacting other researchers. Ancestral Surnames ANCESTRAL SURNAMES ONE-NAME STUDIES: I collect all references, anywhere to: BRICKETT, CHOWEN/CHOWINGS, DARTNALL/DURTNELL/DUTNAIL, DASHWOOD, JUPP

NAME	PARISH	COUNTY	COUNTRY	DATES BATEY, Samuel	Greenwich, Chatham Any	Kent Canada	England Canada	Post 1850 Post 1916 BAWCUTT	All	Kent	England	Post 1819 BISSET(T)	SMiF Westminster, Whitechapel, St. Geo. East	Middlesex	England	Pre-1858 BORCKHARDT	Westminster	Middlesex	England	Pre-1782 DODLER	East London	Middlesex	England	Post 1867 EVES	Greenwich, Deptford, Lewisham Surbiton, Long/Thames Ditton	Kent Surrey	England England	Pre-1944 Pre-1885 GARD(E/I)NER	Crayford Stratford, West Ham Wandsworth, Sydenham	Kent Essex Surrey	England England England	Post 1882 Pre-1865 Pre-1882 HAMMANT	Crayford	Kent	England	All LOVE	Westminster	Middlesex	England	Post 1863 MATTERFACE	John & Johanna in London & Australia	London All	England Australia	Post 1874 Post 1874 NELSON	Lambeth Strand, Bethnal Green	Surrey Middlesex	England England	Post 1800 Post 1800 REMNANT	Chislehurst	Kent	England	Pre-1780 THOM	Rotherhithe Cruden, Peterhead	Surrey Aberdeenshire	England Scotland	Post 1800 All TOPPING	London London	Middlesex Surrey	England England	All All

Ancestral Places ANCESTRAL PLACES ONE-NAME STUDIES: I collect all references, anywhere to: BRICKETT, CHOWEN/CHOWINGS, DARTNALL/DURTNELL/DUTNAIL, DASHWOOD, JUPP

COUNTRY	COUNTY	PARISH	NAME	DATES Australia	Any	Any	MATTERFACE (m. Dashwood)	Post 1874 England	Beds	Battlesden	BARBER	Pre-1606 England	Beds	Battlesden	JOHNS/JONES	Pre-1631 England	Beds	Billington	LAKE	Pre-1706 England	Beds	Chalgrave	FILPOT	Pre-1788 England	Beds	Chalgrave	PHILPOT	Pre-1788 England	Beds	Chalgrave	HILLIARD	Pre-1833 Scotland	Aberdeen	Cruden	JOHNSTON	1800-26 Scotland	Aberdeen	Cruden	THOM	All Scotland	Aberdeen	Old Deer	PRESLAY/ PRESLEY	Pre-1780 Scotland	Aberdeen	Old Deer	THOM	Pre-1880 Scotland	Aberdeen	Old Machar	THOM	Pre-1880 Scotland	Aberdeen	Peterhead area? MOSS	Pre-1812 Scotland	Aberdeen	Peterhead	THOM	All

A variation on the Ancestral Surnames chart is the Tiny Tafel (Tafel means table in German) which is shown in the chart below. This gives RIN (Record Identification Number) as well as Soundex code, which can be obtained from the RootsWeb’s Soundex Converter at: http://resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/soundexconverter and is useful when using many indexes.

Tiny Tafel Soundex code	Birth Earliest Ancestor	Death Latest Ancestor	Surname\Birthplace 1st ancestor/ Place of death last ancestor (RIN #) A450	1799	1867	ALLEN\ Byfleet, Surrey/ Byfleet, Surrey (26) B623	1565	1938	BRICKETT\ Dunstable, Beds/ Crayford, Kent (130) B650	1727	1854	BROWN\ Chichester, Sussex/ Hunston, Sussex (520) B650	1731	1904	BROWN\ Tonbridge, Kent/ Crayford, Kent (249) C520	1658	1916	CHOWINS\ Coryton, Devon/ Greenwich, Kent C462	1799	1861	CLARK\ Dereham, Norfolk/ Marylebone, Middlesex (185) D635	1733	1927	DARTNELL\ Hadlow, Kent/ Crayford, Kent (187) D230	1572	1921	DASHWOOD\ Tarrant Monkton, Dorset/ Reigate, Surrey (6) D100	1697	1851	DAVEY\ Cuckfield, Sussex/ Hurstpierpoint, Sussex (211) J100	1647	1976	JUPP\ West Grinstead, Sussex/ Crayford, Kent (128) Calculating An Exact Birth Date

If you have an exact age in years, months and days at death you may apply the 8870 Formula devised by the Hawkins County Genealogical & Historical Society, Rogersville, Tennessee. Such details may be found on tombstones and in burial registers, especially Scandinavian ones. Say the person died on 6 May 1889 aged 71 years, 7 months and 9 days. Use the following calculation:

Died 1889 May 6                                     18890506 Subtract 71 yrs. 7 mos. 9 days             -       710709 Gives                                                        18179797

Now subtract the constant 8870          -           8870 This is the birth date                                18170927     =    27  Sep 1817

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