What is a collateral ancestor. Also what would you call my grandmother's half-sister??? A half-grt. aunt *giggle* fuzzy-brandy-butter-elf Proud member of the IBSSG --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new resources site!

Faye I found this at the URL below. It explains it well. As for the Half siblings we never made a difference with them. They were all our Aunts and Uncles. <SMILE> If you start with the pedigree chart, use yourself as the base person and enter your parents, grandparents and other direct ancestors. (A direct ancestor is a parent, grandparent, great grandparent, great-great-grandparent, etc. Aunts, uncles, great aunts and uncles, in-laws, etc. are consider collateral ancestors.) Enter birth dates, places (including the county, if known), marriage dates and places. Include as much information as possible. Then move to a family group sheet. All unions (whether or not they married) should have a family group sheet. Again, include as much information as possible. http://www.didian.com/branch/start.html Sue Ellen "Life is what happens while you are making other plans"