Granduncle is an American term - the English (oops, British, sorry) term is great uncle. Anne South Australia Brian Griffiths wrote: > My understanding is that "grand" does not feature at all in describing > uncles, though, as you say, there are probably be other methods. So my > grandfather's brother is my great uncle, great grandfather's brother my > great great uncle etc. That's how my software (Family Historian) does > it, though curiously it writes it out as eg "great x 6 great uncle" > rather than "great x 7 uncle" > > Brian >