Re: No Comment.


"Grumman-581" <grumman581@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Greg Mossman wrote:
In many families, Joe English, it's common to have more than one
uncle. I understand that's not the case in Missouri with all the
inbreeding, but we here in California have normal family relations.

My uncle who was killed with one of his own guns was actually my great-
uncle, my grandfather's younger brother.

The "uncle" that I referred to in this thread is actually a cousin of
some sort (second?), the son of my grandfather's sister, but I
referred to him as an uncle because he's the same generation as my
parents.

Sounds like you're the one with the complicated family relations...
Would the first example be a grand-uncle, not a great-uncle? Once you
start going that far back, it usually just gets describes as, "Well,
we're related somehow way-back there"...

After awhile, it just gets described as "couzins"... <grin>

My family is also fortunate enough to be extended like Greg's. I refer to
my great-aunts and uncles as "Aunt or Uncle" and even cousins in my father's
age group were known to me as "Aunt and Uncle", until I was in my twenties.
That only changed because I changed it myself. If I were still to refer to
them as my Aunts and Uncles, no one would mind or find it odd.

In fact, my cousin's young children refer to me as Auntie.

A number of my Dad's cousins are my age and younger. I don't refer to them
as my second cousins or cousins once removed, only as my cousins and they do
the same in return. I even have cousins that are cousins once removed from
my father.

Therefore, were I to tell of something that happened with one or more of
these relatives, I would merely refer to them as "Uncle" "Aunt" or "cousin".
Then if someone were to question me on the true relationship, I'd explain.

Frankly, in this instance, it was not necessary for Greg to explain, but it
is not the least bit odd to me and likely many others, to find that it was
not his first Uncle.

After all, think about it, are we going to run around calling those we are
close to "Oh, Uncle-once-removed John, what were you telling me the other
day?" or "Second cousin Bill, what did you do today?".

It is very nice to be part of a large close family and like all of them too.


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