file sent off list ----- Original Message ----- From: "Andy Micklethwaite" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 06, 2010 6:48 PM Subject: Re: [WRY] WONDERING??? > At 22:49 05/01/2010, you wrote: >>I have made contact with a party in Barnsley---from what we both have >>discovered---her 2 great grandfather and my Great grandfather were >>brothers--how are we connected--she would be my ???---and I would be her >>???--can anyone fill in the question marks-----also how would she be >>connected with my kids > > Hi Richard > > I had a similar issue when I started - it's not always clear. If you just > want a relationship calculator, there are plenty about, but I wrote one so > I understood how it worked - feel free to try it: > http://www.ancestryhost.org/andymick/couscalcintro.htm > > Your great grandfather was brother to the other branch, so your most > recent common ancestor is your great great grandfather. So you and her > father (being on the same generation) are 3rd cousins. She is however one > generation further away from the MRCA so you and she are 3rd cousins once > removed. > > HTH Andy. > In cold and snowy Derbyshire. > > > > > Some useful websites - > FREECEN - http://www.freecen.org.uk/ > FREEBMD - http://freebmd.rootsweb.com/ > Want to know where a place in Yorkshire is - Try Genuki > http://www.genuki.org.uk/big/eng/YKS/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >