Andrew Crystall wrote: > > On 24 Mar 2003 at 22:29, Julia Thompson wrote: > > > > > So your second cousin, twice removed, would be either your father > > > > or mother's cousin's great-grandchild or their great-grandparent). > > > > > > > > Clear as mud? > > > > > > > That's not the way we ever accounted for cousins. My mothers cousins > > > were always counted as second cousins to me. Is there an official > > > means of counting cousins? > > > > Reggie already posted a couple of URLs. Yes, he's right. > > > > If you get a genealogy program and enter various family members, > > including all the common ancestors, it ought to have something to list > > the relation of you to everyone else in the database. >:) > > There's a HUGE database of Jewish genealogy in Tel Aviv. All the > other Crystalls listed are close relatives though, and we don't know > how it was spelt before my grandparents came to the UK... > > (in the 30's, from probly Poland, they were non-English speakers and > the customs officer wrote the surname down as he heard is. We believe > it had a K, but don't know if it was one or two l's)
I've found a set of databases that include a bunch of my ancestors and other relatives at rootsweb.com, but only for one of my grandmothers. There are tons of databases like that there. http://www.rootsweb.com . Only thing is, you can't be absolutely sure of all of it, because people submit databases with errors. (But if you find an error in an entry, you can attach a note to it to let other folks know, like I did on the one where my father's date of death is off by 2 months.) Julia _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
