In recent decades, it has become even popular not only to be interested in one’s roots and ancestors, but also to find out and specify who is godfather, matchmaker, brother-in-law and so on. It turns out that a family can be much larger, given all the intricacies of the fate of its members.
Especially people became interested in the question of the depth of kinship. For example, cousins, second cousins and brothers. What about next? Are there any cousins or what should I call them? Or, who accounts for the cousin's daughter?
Terminology
Determining family ties has always been a rather complicated affair, as families in our country have traditionally been large. And now, when all the relatives are gathering for one big festive table or are just planning to do this, it is not always clear who the matchmaker or brother is. Nevertheless, blood or consolidated, but it is relatives.
It should be taken as an axiom that the first married couple known by their names, from whom the family comes, is called ancestors.
Other terms require a more specific explanation:
- Blood relatives.
- Not blood relatives - brother-in-law.
In family blood ties, there is a kinship order, determined by the proximity of the lateral branches in the family tree. That is, you can be bloodly, but distant relatives - brothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, etc.
Blood relatives and not so
Blood relatives include all those who are connected by the real fact of birth from one of the family members.
And those who came from other families are not blood or consolidated. These are also called brother-in-law. Blood relatives include:
- relatives;
- cousins;
- second cousins;
- brother / sister;
- Uncle Aunt;
- nephews;
- grandmother grandfather;
- grandchildren etc.
And these are brothers-in-law, that is, not blood relatives:
- son-in-law is the husband of a daughter or sister;
- sister-in-law, sister-in-law, sister-in-law - husband’s sister;
- daughter-in-law - the wife of the son (for his father);
- kumovya - godfather father and mother in relation to the parents of the godson and to each other;
- matchmaker, matchmaker or matchmaker - the father and mother of the wife or husband in relation to the parents of the second spouse;
- daughter-in-law - the wife of a son or brother;
- stepson or stepdaughter - step-mother son or daughter in relation to one of the spouses;
- stepfather - the spouse of the mother of children, but not their father;
- stepmother - the new wife of the father, but not the mother of his children;
- mother-in-law and father-in-law - parents of the husband;
- father-in-law and mother-in-law are the parents of the wife;
- primak - son-in-law who came to live in the house of his wife or her parents;
- brother-in-law - the only brother of the wife;
- brother-in-law - the husband’s brother is the only begotten or the mother.
Family ties
How close (or not so) people are determined by the remoteness of kinship. There are relatives of the first order, second and so on. This kinship is viewed along the vertical of the family tree. I.e:
The first stage is parents, children, sisters and brothers (half-and-one-mother), grandchildren.
The second - grandparents, nephews and nieces.
Third in order of kinship are aunts, uncles, cousins and brothers.
Fourth - kinship through great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers - all second cousins.
Fifth turn - Relatives through cousins of grandparents, including cousins.
Sixth stage - cousins, uncles, cousins of great-grandchildren and nephews (for example, the daughter of a cousin).
Such a division allows you to determine who, to whom and by whom. Thus, asking a question in this context in the circle of a large family, who the daughter of a cousin is, can be determined by this scheme. This is the most remote lineup among blood relatives.
Sisters and brothers
Who are sisters and brothers? These are daughters or sons of the same parents, if relatives. If cousins, then a cousin (brother) is the daughter (son) of a sibling of a father or mother.
Now let's try to understand who the daughter of the cousin is, who she is to me. That is, this is a child from the daughter of my relatives uncle or aunt. This is already considered a kinship from the second generation (generation). And the second cousin is already the third knee in the downward direction.
According to one of the Russian terminology, such a sister is called a “sister”. There is also a tendency to call all cousins, second cousins, etc. brothers and sisters cousins (cousin or cousin).
If this is the daughter of a cousin of mom or dad, then she is not their cousin. In this version, for parents she is a cousin, and for their children a second cousin.
If this is the daughter of a cousin of grandparents, then the latter is a second cousin, albeit a distant blood relative for father and mother. The first is their fourth cousin.
So who is the cousin's daughter to me? Is there a difference from the proximity and bloodiness of kinship in this case? There is always a consanguinity in this variant, but regardless of whether the daughter of a brother or sister is called a niece by the father or mother. And if this is the daughter of a cousin or brother, then the niece, respectively, is a cousin.
Necessity
Unfortunately, we do not always recall family ties in order to strengthen or expand the family circle of loved ones. The presence in one of the branches of the family tree of a wealthy relative gives a rather strong impetus to determine the proximity of kinship in case of inheritance. And here, as they say, the Civil Code is to help if there is no will.
In any case, the compilation of the family tree, the search for distant branches of relatives is not only fashionable, exciting, but also useful. After all, each family necessarily has at least one mysterious lyrical history of relations, which can serve as a plot for a fashionable novel.