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Post by **Angie** on May 22, 2017 15:12:01 GMT
This guy posted that he's trying to find an ancestor. No biggie, until he mentions that he, his dad, and his wife took DNA tests to find this ancestor.
I start reading closer and he says his dad is the son of his wife's half sister.
Doesn't that mean dad is wife's nephew? And the OP is married to his great aunt?
I'm still trying to figure out ages...
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Post by mommaho on May 22, 2017 15:14:04 GMT
Oh my! I really didn't give much thought in high school when I was dating a guy with my Mom's maiden name, until we went to visit his grandparents over spring break in Kentucky. Ends up were 6th cousins.
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Post by Restless Spirit on May 22, 2017 16:37:31 GMT
I'm stuck on the "what are these people's ages?" thing.  Either the half-sister is much, much, much older than the wife (like seriously older) or the wife is much older or the husband is young! Or a combination thereof. In any event, he's related to his wife? |
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Post by melanell on May 22, 2017 16:45:13 GMT
Their ages may still be close.
"his dad is the son of his wife's half sister"
That makes the husband sort of the grand-nephew, I think. His dad's mother is his grandmother, and his wife is the grandmother's half sibling. In a tree format he'd look like a nephew, but since there is one half of the parentage different between the wife & his grandmother, he doesn't share as much DNA with his wife as he would have if she was a full sibling with his grandmother.
The grandmother & wife can be very far apart in age. (Even more so if the common parent is their father instead of their mother.) Half siblings can often involve situations where the older siblings are adults before the younger siblings are born. Now, toss in a few generations that had children very early, and you can have a situation where this guy and his wife may not be terribly far apart in age.
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Post by Deleted on May 22, 2017 16:52:33 GMT
The half sister is from the first marriage. Wife is from second marriage. There is probably a twenty year age difference and half sister was out of the house when her dad remarried. And pregnant with son.
My husband's family. His brothers are 20 years older. His mother got pregnant with husband at 41. His oldest brother and wife was expecting their first. That baby didn't make. But they had 3 more babies, not to far behind. The 2nd baby was a girl. It is conceivable that they could have marry. They are less than 2 years apart in age.
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Post by llinin on May 22, 2017 20:31:19 GMT
I have a similar story, thankfully no blood relatives married. My grandpa was widowed, had several children. He met my grandma about the same time his son met my grandma's younger sister. He was 25 years older than my grandma, so the ages matched up. So, two weddings happened. So my grandma got a stepson who shortly after became her brother in law.
Not long ago I tried explaining to another cousin that we are double related to that group but no incest lol.
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Post by disneypal on May 22, 2017 20:37:54 GMT
  It does sound like he is married to his great aunt His grandmother is his wife's half-sister, so that would make his wife his great aunt. Right?
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Post by jess on May 22, 2017 23:35:26 GMT
As someone who loves genealogy, I haven't seen that! One generation separate yes - but this is two generations! I'm also trying to work out how it would look on a genealogy chart!
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Post by femalebusiness on May 22, 2017 23:47:23 GMT
My grandmother was around ten years old when her mother married a second husband. The new husband's brother (who was married at the time) told his new sister-in-law to "save that one for me", meaning my ten year old grandmother. My grandfather divorced his wife and married my grandmother when she was thirteen. Mother and daughter were married to brothers. This was around 1913.
My mother and her siblings used to say their uncle was their grandfather and their grandfather was their uncle.
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Post by AussieMeg on May 22, 2017 23:51:06 GMT
This kind of stuff hurts my brain. When someone has worked it out can you let me know please?  |
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Post by flute4peace on May 23, 2017 0:58:58 GMT
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Post by flute4peace on May 23, 2017 1:15:20 GMT
This kind of stuff hurts my brain. When someone has worked it out can you let me know please? He is married to his aunt. Editing to say I was off a generation. Yes his great aunt. |
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