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 On 09/08/2010 09:07, Brian Sillett wrote: > My (Suffolk!) great grandfather's brother is my g.g.uncle. Is this great granduncle? > > My 6 x great grandfather's brother is my 7 x g. uncle. Is this 7 x granduncle? Why is it not 6 x great granduncle? > > Perhaps it depends on how the family tree software is set up and maybe UK and USA differences come in here. > > Grandfather is usually one word but granduncle is often two. > Professional genealogists have probably got this all buttoned up but I haven't! > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SUFFOLK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >