In ancient times, it was customary to know their ancestors, to honor their memory and remember the names of their grandfather and grandmother of their grandfather and grandmother. Today, often people don’t even know how kindred they are to each other and how this kinship is called .
Family history
The relationship is divided into blood, near and distant. Even 200 years ago it was customary for the blood relatives to live in the same yard. To do this, they built a house for his son, where he brought his young wife, next to his father’s shelter. It used to be that houses of one family kind were lined up along the street, and such a thing as grand-nephews (these are grandchildren of a sister or brother) was quite commonplace for understanding the depth of kinship.
Family ties were so strong that mutual assistance was not considered something like a favor, but was natural for the survival and preservation of the family. With this approach, people knew not only their blood and relatives, but also distant relatives, such as cousins ​​and brothers, and even deeper.
Nowadays, parents and children can live in the same city and see each other infrequently. Blood relations are no longer supported by the general way of life, the survival of the genus is not at risk, so further distant kinship is no longer tracked. Thus, the spiritual tribal connection is lost. People who are relatives to each other are actually strangers to each other, and it’s sometimes difficult to understand who owes whom to whom.
Blood relations
Blood ties are distributed according to the degree of kinship :
- The first degree of consanguinity relates to parents and children, as well as brothers and sisters. Blood brothers and sisters are those who share a common father and mother. Children with a common father are considered conspirators, and those with a common mother but different fathers are considered unified.
- The second degree is determined between grandparents and their grandchildren. At this level of consanguinity, genetic characteristics of appearance or disease are transmitted, as well as from parents. Often, grandchildren get similarities with grandparents, and not with moms and dads.
- The third degree - great-grandfathers and great-grandmothers. These are the parents of grandparents for their grandchildren. Unfortunately, not all people live to this honorary title. Due to the fact that family planning often stands after a career, you can wait for children from grandchildren only with a healthy lifestyle or inherent in the longevity genes. This category of kinship includes uncles, aunts and their nephews. Siblings of parents are uncles and blood aunts for their children.
Distant blood relationship
The category of blood relatives includes all generations of the lateral branches of the family tree. Having at the beginning of the clan common ancestors, these people are considered relatives, but distant.
- The fourth degree of consanguineous, but more distant kinship includes cousins ​​and brothers, cousins ​​and grandmothers, as well as grand-nephews - these are the grandchildren of siblings.
- The fifth degree of consanguineous, but distant kinship is cousins ​​uncles, aunts and nephews.
- Sixth degree - second cousins ​​and brothers. They are the children of cousins ​​and parents.
Further kinship is considered even more distant, so you can only determine who is who by whom, by delving into the genealogy.
Blood relatives
Each family where children grow up and get married, acquires a new kin, which does not belong to the category of blood relatives, but is called inherents. For each representative of the proprietors there are their own names of kinship, which many have forgotten today.
Phrases such as “brother of wife of brother of husband” sometimes make you think about their meaning.
In fact, everything is very simple:
- For the bride:
- husband’s mother is the mother-in-law;
- father - father-in-law;
- husband's sister-in-law;
- brother - brother-in-law;
- the wife of a brother-in-law is a daughter-in-law;
- sister-in-law husband - son-in-law.
2. For the groom:
- wife's mother - mother-in-law;
- wife's father - father-in-law;
- wife's sister-in-law;
- wife's brother-in-law;
- wife of brother-in-law - daughter-in-law;
- the sister-in-law’s husband is son-in-law.
The wives of the brothers are
for each other yatrovki, and the husbands of the sisters are brother-in-law. Thus, the
phrase about the brother sounds in a new way - "brother of the daughter-in-law of the husband." All relatives of the bride and groom of the second and subsequent degrees are the same kindred as blood relatives, but inherent.
Nephews
Nephews are blood relatives, and sometimes they replace their own children. So called offspring of sisters and brothers. Between themselves, these children are cousins, they are also called cousins ​​and cousins.
There have been cases when marital unions arose between such close relatives , which were accompanied by the birth of children with genetic abnormalities. In many countries, marriage between cousins ​​and brothers is not encouraged, but such unions do not experience any persecution.
For nephews, sisters and brothers of parents are aunts and uncles.
Grand-nephews
A kinship such as grand-nephews is a deepening of the branch of the clan by sisters and brothers. When a brother or sister's own children grow up and get married, this gives a new branch to the family tree.
The more children in the family, the more beautiful and magnificent the generic “crown” will be, and the degree of relationship in this case is determined exclusively by the depth of the “roots”.
To understand, for example, who such a great-nephew is, it is worthwhile to consider in detail the family life of a woman who has brothers and sisters. The woman’s children are her nephews for her blood brothers or sisters. When they grow up, get married and have children themselves, then these babies for the woman become grandchildren. For her brothers and sisters, her sister’s grandson is a grand-nephew. Thus, the entire depth of the clan will be called niece - grandchildren, great-grandchildren, great-great-grandchildren, etc.
Depth of genus
The number of generations of children with consanguinity determines the depth of a family family tree. The crown, or branches of the family tree, are the families of these children. Sometimes it’s difficult to trace all weddings, divorces, births and deaths, so in the old days it was customary in aristocratic families to keep their own family chronicles.
Nowadays, for most families, it is not customary to enter names and dates of birth in the chronological table, so the degree of kinship is not traced deeper than the third or fourth generation. When, for example, a child is born in a sister’s family, some loving uncles and aunts ask themselves: “Who is my son, nephew?”
In fact, all children born from the side of nephews are called so-called nephews. It can be a nephew granddaughter or granddaughter, great-grandson or great-granddaughter and further down the depth of birth. In turn, an uncle or aunt of nephews becomes nephews and grandparents.
The grandson of a brother can make quite young aunt and uncle overnight grandparents. It often happens that the grandson (granddaughter) of a brother of the same age or even older than his sister's youngest child. These children grow up like the weather, and are often called sisters and brothers.
Although this is not as close blood relationship as the offspring of their own children, nevertheless, grand-nephews are still grandchildren.
Cousin depth
Parents' cousins ​​and cousins ​​are cousins ​​and aunts for their children. Accordingly, the children of a cousin or cousin are called cousins. A cousin’s child is called a cousin’s grandson.
This is a category of blood, but distant kinship. For aristocrats, tracking all branches of the genus is important in connection with evidence of aristocratic origin. Even 200 - 300 years ago, they knew not only their main roots, but also their branches - families living in other cities and provinces. The same then became applicable to the merchants and wealthy citizens.
To this day, families live in the ancient cities of Europe, whose ancestors were their founders. Usually the pedigree is from the father and passed to the son. Therefore, the birth of an heir was so important for most royal and aristocratic families. If he was not there, then the family name faded away and a new branch began with the name of the married daughter.
Nowadays, such deep roots can no longer be traced, and inheritance is transmitted regardless of the gender of the child.