{"id":2643,"date":"2011-03-31T11:09:12","date_gmt":"2011-03-31T18:09:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/new.wavewithoutashore.cwgservices.org\/?p=2643"},"modified":"2011-03-31T12:15:31","modified_gmt":"2011-03-31T19:15:31","slug":"my-21st-great-grandfather-is-also-my-half-1st-cousin-19-times-removed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/my-21st-great-grandfather-is-also-my-half-1st-cousin-19-times-removed\/","title":{"rendered":"My 21st great-grandfather is also my half 1st cousin 19 times removed&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>through dear Aunt Ada.<\/p>\n<p>The hysterical fun of genealogy, or&#8212;kissing cousins and worse. It seems 2Oth-great-grandfather Ralph&#8217;s father Henry was also related to 20-times-removed Aunt Ada&#8217;s stepfather or something like, and the genealogy program wants to take the blood relation of Aunt Ada as more important than the relationship between my 21st-great-grandfather Henry and his own son Ralph, because, yes, 19 times removed is one mathematical step closer than 21 times removed, even if he&#8217;s a half first cousin at that remove, rather than a direct great-great-great, etc.-grandfather in line with ME.<\/p>\n<p>Making matters EVEN worse, that&#8217;s my <\/p>\n<ul>\nfather&#8217;s <\/ul>\n<p>side of the family. On my MOTHER&#8217;s side, at several centuries&#8217; remove and completely unexpected, we located a line of ascent going up from one Mary, sweet child, daughter of Captain Humphrey, wife unknown, who is HIMSELF a direct descendant (through another brother of a large family at generation 6) of the SAME 21st-great-grandfather Henry.<\/p>\n<p>Not only that, but Henry is ALSO himself my 20th-great-grandfather in yet another line, because of cousin-marriage, and that line, over centuries, tending to procreate just a little younger than the other one. [You have two grandparents, four great-grandparents, 8 great-great [or 2nd-great] grandparents, and by the time you get to the 20th-great, your number of 20th-great grandparents is quite large&#8212;somebody want to work that out? Neighbors married neighbors, people stayed in the same villages, and it just got worse and worse, my friends, until it became a complete tangle. I believe in five more generations, ie, by the 25th, I am likely related to everyone in England.<\/p>\n<p>Jane and I are, by best calculations of the same program, 20th degree cousins&#8230;BOTH of us related to Ralph and Henry, or at least to their ancestor Humphrey, not to be confused with Captain Humphrey, but then&#8212;we haven&#8217;t gotten the Pierces we&#8217;re pretty sure we have in common.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>through dear Aunt Ada. The hysterical fun of genealogy, or&#8212;kissing cousins and worse. It seems 2Oth-great-grandfather Ralph&#8217;s father Henry was also related to 20-times-removed Aunt Ada&#8217;s stepfather or something like, and the genealogy program wants to take the blood relation of Aunt Ada as more important than the relationship between my 21st-great-grandfather Henry and his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":751,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2643","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/751"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2643"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2643\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2643"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2643"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cherryh.com\/WaveWithoutAShore\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2643"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}