You are quite right and I have known of this function for sometime. You will also find that PAF makes no distinction between, say, brother and half brother. Accordin to PAF they are brothers - end of story. The same applies to cousins and half cousins etc. PAF doesn't show them as half cousins etc. They are simply 'Cousins'. Regards, Rollei (in Australia) Researching: LITTLE, Hibbard, Labies, Harmegnies, Gilbert, Bickford http://www.rolleilittle.com/ > >Rollie, >PAF 5 will calculate this relationship for you, as far as blood >relationship goes. If you already have that function set up, with you as >the person to calculate relationships to, the answer will apprear in the >lower left corner of the other person's (must be highlighted) Family >screen. If the function isn't set, go to Tools, select Relationship >Calculator and enter each individual's info (easiest by noting their RIN >and using it). Be sure you put your info (if you're trying to calculate >the other person's relationship to you) in the lower block. Otherwise you >get the reverse relationship. > >It that doesn't make sense, think of it this way: if you put your >grandfather in the top box and you in the bottom box, the answer will come >up that as grandfather (top box) is grandfather of lower box) If you >reverse the placement (you in top box & grandpa in the lower box) then the >answer comes up as grandson. > >Hope this helps. >Dick Cazier >----- Original Message ----- From: "Marie Young" <heartseas@bigpond.com> >To: <PAF-5-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> >Sent: Tuesday, July 19, 2005 10:27 PM >Subject: Re: [PAF-5] What relation? > > >>Dear Rollie, >>Wouldn't we be 1/2 second cousins? or isn't there such a thing? You see, >>as >>I said in my last email, his grandfather was my grandmother's 1/2 brother. >>Marie >> >> >> >>==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >>FreeBMD - Free Access to England and Wales Civil Registration Index >>Volunteer as a Transcriber Today! >>http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ >> >> > > > >==== PAF-5-USERS Mailing List ==== >RootsWeb's WorldConnect Project: >Connecting the World One GEDCOM at a Time >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ >