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For questions about naming relationships between two people.

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Determining name for family relationship that involves a step daughter?

I just fed your information into the Steve Morse's Relationship Calculator in this order: parent sister husband daughter daughter and it returned that your parent's sister's husband's daughter's dau …
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Is there a resource for easily determining relationships between two relatives?

The site you are referring to may well be Steve Morse's Relationship Calculator which has been used recently to answer two questions here: Determining name for family relationship that involves a st …
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Seeking English term for relationship between two members of extended family?

As can be seen from many earlier Q&As here, the Relationship Calculator of Stephen P. Morse, is an easy to use tool for this purpose and has either been applied to, or could be applied to, these quest …
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Describing the relationship between children when widower marries dead wife's sister

I think that: child 1's relation to: 2 is 1st cousin 3 is 3/4 sibling child 2's relation to: 1 is 1st cousin 3 is 3/4 sibling child 3's relation to: 2 and 3 is 3/4 sibling According to Wi …
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What do you call folks that are third cousins two different ways?

I think that you are using the correct term of double third cousins. Two individuals are third cousins when they share a single pair of 2nd great grandparents. Since your individuals share two pairs …
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Determining relationship to President Jefferson?

I work it out this way: Wiliam and Mary are siblings Elias and Thomas Jr are 1st cousins Michael and Peter are 2nd cousns Walton and President are 3rd cousins you are three generations below Walto …
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Seeking Notation for common ancestors across different family branches?

My understanding is that if there are two ways for one person to be related to another, then that is called a double relationship. To determine what each of the two individual relationships may be ca …
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