Grandchildren are nephews ... Who is who to whom? Family ties

In ancient times it was customary to know yourgrandparents, honor their memory and remember the names of grandfather and grandmother of his grandfather with a grandmother. Today, often people do not even know what kindred they are to each other and how this related relationship is properly called.

Relationship History

Kinship is divided into blood, close andfar. About 200 years ago, it was accepted to live in blood by one family. For this, the son was built a house where he led a young wife, next to his father's house. Sometimes, along the street were built houses of one family kind, and such a thing as grandchildren (these are the grandsons of a sister or brother) was quite common for understanding the depth of kinship.

The family ties were so strong thatmutual aid was not considered something like a favor, but was natural for the survival and preservation of the family. With this approach, people knew not only their blood and relatives, but also distant relatives, for example, four-siblings and brothers, and even deeper.

In our time, parents and children can live in onecity ​​and see infrequently. Blood links are no longer supported by the common way of life, the survival of the genus is not under threat, therefore the further relationship is no longer tracked. Thus, the spiritual generic connection is lost. People who are relatives with each other are actually strangers to each other, and it is sometimes difficult to understand who is whom to whom.

Blood relations

Related blood links are divided into the degree of kinship:

• The first degree of kinship concernsparents and children, as well as brothers and sisters. Blood brothers and sisters are those with a common father and mother. Single-breasted children are considered to be a common father, and those who have a common mother, but different fathers, are one-womb.
• The second degree is determined between grandfathers,grandmothers and their grandchildren. At this level of blood relationship, genetic characteristics of appearance or diseases are transmitted, as well as from parents. Often grandchildren receive similarities with grandparents, and not with moms and dads.
• The third degree is the great-grandfather and great-grandmother. These are the parents of grandparents for their grandchildren. Unfortunately, not all people live to this honorary title. Due to the fact that family planning often takes place after a career, children can wait for their grandchildren only if they have a healthy lifestyle or are laid down in the genes of longevity. Uncle, aunts and their nephews belong to this category of relationship. Brothers and sisters of parents are native uncles and aunts by blood for their children.

Blood distant relationship

To the category of blood relatives are all generations of lateral branches of the ancestral tree. Having at the beginning of the genus of common ancestors, these people are considered relatives, but remote.

• The fourth degree of blood, but more distant kinship include cousins ​​and brothers, grandfather and grandmother, and grandchildren are grandchildren of siblings.
• The fifth degree of blood, but distant relationship - cousins ​​uncles, aunts and nephews.
• Sixth degree - second cousins ​​and brothers. They are the children of the cousins ​​of their parents.

Further kinship is considered to be even farther, therefore it is possible to determine who is responsible to anyone who has fallen into the pedigree.

Innocent relatives

Every family where children grow up and marry,acquires a new kindred, which does not belong to the category of blood relatives, but is called an inherent. For each representative of the property, there are some names of kinship, which many today are forgotten.

Phrases like "brother of the wife of her husband's brother" sometimes make one think about their meaning.

In fact, everything is very simple:

1. For the bride:

• my mother's mother-in-law;
• father - father in law;
• the husband's sister is a sister-in-law;
• brother - brother-in-law;
• the wife of the brother-in-law is the daughter-in-law;
• husband of a sister - in - law.

2. For the groom:

• my mother's mother-in-law;
• the father of the wife is the father-in-law;
• the sister of the wife is sister-in-law;
• brother of wife - brother-in-law;
• wife of brother-in-law - daughter-in-law;
• the husband of sister-in-law is the son-in-law.

Wife brothers are for each other yatrovkami, andhusbands of sisters - brother-in-law. Thus, the phrase about the brother sounds in a new way - "brother of the daughter-in-law of the husband". All relatives of the bridegroom or bride of the second and subsequent degrees are the same relatives as the blood relatives, but are inherent.

Nephews

Nephews are blood relatives, and it happens,replace their own children. This is the name of the offspring of siblings and brothers. Between themselves these children are cousins ​​and sisters, they are also called cousins ​​and cousins.

There have been cases when between so closerelatives were married unions, which were accompanied by the birth of children with genetic abnormalities. In many countries marriages between cousins ​​and brothers are not encouraged, but such unions do not experience any persecution.

For the nephews, the sisters and brothers of the parents are aunts and uncles.

The grand nephews

Such kinship as grandchildren arethe deepening of the branch of the family from the side of sisters and brothers. When a brother or sister own children grow up and get married, this gives a new branch to the genealogical tree.

The more children in the family, the more beautiful and gorgeous will be the generic "crown", and the degree of kinship in this case is determined solely by the depth of the "roots".

To understand, for example, who is the grandchildnephew, in detail it is worth considering the family life of a woman who has brothers and sisters. The children of a woman for her blood brothers or sisters are nephews. When they grow up, marry and have children themselves, these babies become grandchildren for a woman. For her brothers and sisters, the grandson of her sister is a grand-nephew. Thus, the whole depth of the family will be called a nephew - grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-grandsons, etc.

Depth of genus

Number of generations of children withkinship, determines the depth of the family tree. The crowns, or branches of the genealogical tree, are the families of these children. Sometimes it is difficult to trace all weddings, divorces, births and deaths, so in the old days aristocratic families used to make their own family chronicles.

Nowadays for most families it is not acceptedto enter in the chronological table the names and dates of births, therefore the degree of kinship is not traced deeper than the third - fourth generation. When, for example, a child is born in a sister's family, some loving uncles and aunts ask themselves: "Son of a nephew - who is me?"

In fact, all children born tonephews, and are called - nephew. It can be a nephew's grandson or granddaughter, great-grandson or great-granddaughter and further in depth of birth. In turn, uncle or aunt of nephews become nephew grandparents.

The grandson of the brother can make suddenly a grandmother orgrandfather rather young aunt and uncle. It often happens that the grandson (granddaughter) of a brother of the same age or even older than his sister's younger child. Such children grow up like the weather, and are often called sisters and brothers.

Although this is not so close blood relationship as the offspring of their own children, nevertheless, grandchildren are nevertheless grandchildren.

Depth of first cousin

Cousins ​​and cousins ​​of parents are cousinsuncles and aunts for their children. Accordingly, the children of the cousin or cousin are called cousins ​​nephews. A child of a first cousin is called a cousin.

This is a category of blood, but distant relationship. For aristocrats, tracing all branches of the genus is important in connection with the proof of aristocratic origin. Even 200-300 years ago they knew not only their basic roots, but also their branches - families living in other cities and provinces. The same became applicable later for merchants and wealthy townspeople.

Till now in the ancient cities of Europe liveThe families whose ancestors were their founders. Usually the pedigree is from the father and is passed on to the son. Therefore, it was so important for the majority of royal and aristocratic families the birth of an heir. If it was not, the family name faded and a new branch began with the name of the married daughter.

In our time, such deep roots are no longer traceable, and the inheritance is transmitted regardless of the sex of the child.

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