Grandchildren are nephews ... Who is who to whom? Family ties

In ancient times it was customary to know their ancestors, honor their memory and remember the names of their grandfather and grandmother with their grandmother. Today, often people do not even know what kindred they are to each other and how this related relationship is properly called .

Relationship History

The kinship is divided into blood, close and far. Still about 200 years ago it was accepted to live in blood relatives to live in one yard. For this, his son was built a house where he led a young wife, next to his father's house. Sometimes, along the street were built houses of one family kind, and such a thing as grandchildren (these are the grandsons of a sister or brother) was quite ordinary for understanding the depth of kinship.

Family ties were so strong that mutual assistance was not considered something of a favor, but was natural for the survival and preservation of the family. With this approach, people knew not only their blood and relatives, but also distant relatives, for example, four-siblings and brothers, and even deeper.

In our time, parents and children can live in the same city and see each other infrequently. Blood links are no longer supported by the common way of life, the survival of the genus is not under threat, therefore the further relationship is no longer tracked. Thus, the spiritual generic connection is lost. People who are relatives among themselves are actually strangers to each other, and it is sometimes difficult to understand who engages whom.

Blood relations

Related blood links are divided into the degree of kinship :

• The first degree of kinship relates to parents and children, as well as brothers and sisters. Blood brothers and sisters are those with a common father and mother. Single-breasted children are those with a common father, and those with a common mother are those with a common mother, but different fathers.
• The second degree is determined between grandfathers, grandmothers and their grandchildren. At this level of blood relationship genetic characteristics of appearance or diseases are transmitted, as well as from parents. Often grandchildren get similarities with grandparents, and not with moms and dads.
• The third degree - great-grandparents and great-grandmothers. These are parents of grandparents for their grandchildren. Unfortunately, not all people live to this honorary title. In connection with the fact that family planning is often after a career, children can wait for their grandchildren only if they have a healthy lifestyle or are laid down in the genes of longevity. Uncle, aunt and their nephews belong to this category of relationship. Brothers and sisters of parents are native uncles and aunts by blood for their children.

Blood distant relationship

To the category of blood relatives are all generations of lateral branches of the ancestral tree. Having at the beginning of the genus of common ancestors, these people are considered relatives, but remote.

• The fourth degree of blood, but more distant kinship include cousins and brothers, grandfather and grandmother, and grandchildren are grandchildren of siblings.
• The fifth degree of blood, but distant relationship - cousins uncles, aunts and nephews.
• Sixth degree - second cousins and brothers. They are children of the cousins of their parents.

Further kinship is considered to be even farther, therefore it is possible to determine who is who to whom, you can only dig in the pedigree.

Naughty relatives

Every family where children grow up and marries acquires a new kind of family that does not belong to the category of blood relatives, but is called an inherent. For each representative of the property, there are some names of kinship, which many today are forgotten. Phrases like "brother of the wife of her husband's brother" sometimes make one think about their meaning.

In fact, everything is very simple:

1. For the bride:

• My mother's mother-in-law;
• Father - father in law;
• The sister of the husband is a sister-in-law;
• Brother - brother-in-law;
• The wife of the brother-in-law is the daughter-in-law;
• Husband of a sister - in - law.

2. For the groom:

• My mother's mother-in-law;
• The father of the wife is the father-in-law;
• The sister of the wife is sister-in-law;
• Brother of wife - brother-in-law;
• Wife of brother-in-law - daughter-in-law;
• The husband of sister-in-law is the son-in-law.

Wives of brothers are for each other yatrovkami, and the husbands of sisters - brother-in-law. Thus, the phrase about the brother sounds in a new way - "brother of the daughter-in-law of the husband". All the relatives of the bridegroom or bride of the second and subsequent degrees are the same relatives as the blood relatives, but are property-like.

Nephews

Nephews are blood relatives, and sometimes they are replacing their own children. This is the name of the offspring of siblings and brothers. Between themselves these children are cousins and sisters, they are also called cousins and cousins.

There have been cases when between such close relatives there were marriages, which were accompanied by the birth of children with genetic abnormalities. In many countries marriages between cousins and brothers are not encouraged, but such unions do not experience any persecution.

For the nephews, the sisters and brothers of the parents are aunts and uncles.

The grand nephews

Such kinship as grand nephews is the deepening of the branch of the family from the side of sisters and brothers. When a brother or sister own children grow up and get married, this gives a new branch to the genealogical tree.

The more children in the family, the more beautiful and gorgeous will be the generic "crown", and the degree of kinship in this case is determined solely by the depth of the "roots".

To understand, for example, who such a grand-nephew, in detail it is worth considering the family life of a woman who has brothers and sisters. The children of a woman for her blood brothers or sisters are nephews. When they grow up, get married and have children themselves, these kids become grandchildren for a woman. For her brothers and sisters, her grandson's grandson is a grand-nephew. Thus, the whole depth of the family will be called a nephew - grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-grandsons, etc.

Depth of genus

The number of generations of children with a blood relationship determines the depth of the family tree. The crowns, or branches of the genealogical tree, are the families of these children. Sometimes it is difficult to trace all weddings, divorces, births and deaths, so in the old days aristocratic families used to make their own family chronicles.

In our time, for most families, it is not customary to include in the chronological table names and birth dates, so the degree of kinship is not traced deeper than the third or fourth generation. When, for example, a child is born in a sister's family, some loving uncles and aunts ask themselves: "Son of a nephew - who am I?"

In fact, all the children born from the side of nephews, and are called - nephew. It can be a nephew's grandson or granddaughter, great-grandson or great-granddaughter and further in depth of birth. In turn, uncle or aunt of nephews become nephews grandparents.

A grandson of his brother can make a pretty young aunt and uncle overnight by grandparents. It often happens that the grandson (granddaughter) of a brother of the same age or even older than his youngest child of his sister. Such children grow up like the weather, and are often called sisters and brothers.

Although this is not so close blood relationship as the offspring of their own children, nevertheless, grandchildren are grandchildren.

Depth of first cousin

Cousins and cousins of parents are cousins uncles and aunts for their children. Accordingly, the children of the cousin or cousin are called cousins nephews. The child of a cousin's nephew is called a first cousin.

This is a category of blood, but distant relationship. For aristocrats, tracing all branches of the genus is important in connection with the proof of aristocratic origin. Even 200-300 years ago they knew not only their basic roots, but also their branches - families living in other cities and provinces. The same became applicable later for merchants and wealthy townspeople.

Till now in the ancient cities of Europe there live families, whose ancestors were their founders. Usually the pedigree is from the father and is passed on to the son. Therefore, it was so important for the majority of royal and aristocratic families the birth of the heir. If he was not there, the family name faded and a new branch began with the name of the married daughter.

In our time, such deep roots are no longer traceable, and the inheritance is transmitted regardless of the sex of the child.