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For questions about naming relationships between two people.

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What is the correct word for Step siblings?

You have added the ** Biological child to one of the parents, not the other. that was not in your original question. As Ezri pointed out, that makes your word "step" completely wrong. Doug wou …
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Is there a resource for easily determining relationships between two relatives?

Could you have been thinking of Kinship Calculator by Mark Tucker? It is a simple online interactive diagram that allows you to determine the relationships of two people knowing the relationship of ea …
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What is sibling of son-in-law or daughter-in-law called?

With respect to Dohnanyi, Dietrich Bonhoeffer could be referred to as: His son's wife's brother (for most detail), His son's brother-in-law, or His daughter-in-law's brother. Relatives through mar …
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Seeking Notation for common ancestors across different family branches?

I haven't seen such terminology. But I needed something similar, mainly to define DNA relationships, so I developed a notation I call: Behold's Genetic Relationship Notation (BGRN). You can develo …
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