In Hawaii, everybody is an auntie or an uncle. Even at the farmers market, sellers often call us uncle or auntie. It's one thing I love about Hawaii. Everybody is ohana (Hawaiian for family). It's a tradition we carried with us to the mainland over 40 years ago. All of our family friends were uncles and aunties to our children.
Recently, Art's aunt showed him a sheet of paper that showed a diagram of blood relationships and he took a photo of it. I thought I'd share it with you since this topic has often confused me.
I hope this helps.
Recently, Art's aunt showed him a sheet of paper that showed a diagram of blood relationships and he took a photo of it. I thought I'd share it with you since this topic has often confused me.
I hope this helps.
Wow, that’s amazing! I think it’s wonderful the sense of family, one big happy family!
ReplyDeleteIt's all very confusing although I may now understand, First Cousin Once Removed. May.
ReplyDeleteWe have a similar custom in India. The Uncle and Aunty stuff has been there for ever, and it was considered bad manners for a child to call his friend's mom, Mrs So-and-so. Regarding the wonderful table you showed with diagrams about blood relationships, folks like my late Mom (she would have been more than 100 now) actually knew all this clearly in their heads, and it was entertaining to figure out how she always ended up knowing someone who knew someone who was related to us.
ReplyDeleteIt is a measure of the clean air and non additive foods they imbibed in their youth (and later) that they had such strong memories and attention spans.
Excellent. My grandson and I got together with my sister and her grandson and we were trying to work out how the two boys were related. If I follow that chart correctly, first cousins twice removed. I'm still a little confused.
ReplyDeleteWow! That is an amazing chart. Thanks for sharing it, Kay. :-)
ReplyDeleteI never knew how my cousins kids were connected. 1st cousins once removed. I have a lot of those. :) Thank you.
ReplyDeleteThink I need to Google a cousin that has been removed at least once. Never got that but we are a small family. Like the idea of "uncles" and "aunts."
ReplyDeleteI always though my first cousin's kids were my second cousins...thanks for the chart!
ReplyDeleteStill confusing, but good to know. I'll show it to Tom, our genealogist, and see if he knew this.
ReplyDeleteAmazing chart. My family decided to refer to everyone with a blurry connection to us as cousins. The extra uncles and aunt seem to be family friends. My 20 years younger sister's two children consider me Grandma cuz by the time they born we were out of grandparents. I think I will try to fill in some of those blanks though. :-)
ReplyDeleteInteresting.
ReplyDeleteMy Okinawan husband considered anyone and everyone who was Okinawan as some aunty, uncle or cousin of his - even though there was no bloodline connection and much of it was through marriage or just having familiarity with each other. It made life easy, and created a huge family base.
ReplyDeleteIt is complex. I'm adopted, and pretty much gave up on following it all!
ReplyDeleteCute chart. I always considered my nieces' kids to be my great nieces and great nephews. The chart says they're grand nieces/nephews. Makes sense, but don't think I can change the way I reference them. I wonder how much of the chart varies in adaptations regionally, i.e. back East towards New York, or midwest around Kansas. Linda in Kansas
ReplyDeletePeople often confuse first cousin-once removed with 2nd cousin.
ReplyDeleteIf you have the same grandparents, you are cousins. The "removed" business is all about different generations. That chart is a mite confusing.
ReplyDeleteUmmm, very interesting. AND, totally confusing. We have always only gone as far as 2nd cousin and left the rest as "kin-folks". The "Removed" part boggles my mind too much to even think about. Good information though, Kay. Thanks for sharing this.
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