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Ancestry/Genealogy

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8. It is a "grand" aunt, not a "great" aunt

Reply to Thor_MN (Reply #7)

Mon May 15, 2017, 02:18 PM

May 2017

There is no such thing unless it is a great grand aunt/uncle.

I was corrected on this by Holy Cross Cemetery in Colma, CA not knowing that there is such a thing as a "great aunt/uncle" so to speak.

I recently found a half cousin. His grandmother was my mother's 1/2 aunt!