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Tuesday, June 21, 2011

A great great great grandpa by any other name...

Eleanor asked about standard listing for relationships that are greats:

Can you help me with what to call a great, great, great, great, great grandfather without listing all the greats? Would he be my 4th great grandfather or 5th grandfather? Or neither?
ASK OLIVE TREE GENEALOGY RESPONSE: Hi Eleanor,

Normally you count the number of "greats" in the relationship and change that to a number. So your great great great-grandfather would be your 3rd great-grandfather. Or 3rd great grandfather (no hyphen) Some people write it as 3x great-grandfather.

Sometimes I cheat and write g-g-g-grandfather. :-)

No matter what convention you choose you must leave the "great" in before "Grandfather" or others reading will not know what you mean.


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  1. Mike SarzoJune 25, 2018 at 9:47 AM

    I'm thinking 5G would work.

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  2. UnknownNovember 26, 2018 at 2:21 AM

    Is my great great great grandfathers uncle my great great great great granduncle?

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  3. Olive Tree GenealogyNovember 26, 2018 at 10:23 AM

    Family Tree Maker defines the relationship as your 5th great-uncle

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