From: rail@greywall.demon.co.uk   
      
   On 10/10/2021 21:00, J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:   
   > Reading through the responses to familysearch's "new" cousin charts   
   > (actually just newly re-emailed - they emailed about the same ones about   
   > a year ago [not that they aren't useful]), I got to idly wondering:   
   >   
   > If there's a second marriage somewhere, so you are still related to the   
   > person but only by one parent at some point in the chain, we say they're   
   > your half whatever (uncle, nepling, xth cousin y removed)*. You still   
   > share DNA, though only half as much as would otherwise be the case -   
   > though I'm sure the "half" terminology well predates DNA.   
   >   
   > If there's another second marriage somewhere - so that you still share   
   > ancestry, but only half as much DNA again - what is the term - do we say   
   > a "half half" whatever, or a "quarter"?   
   >   
   > (Of course, if the second marriage was _of_ a second spouse, you might   
   > have _no_ common ancestry; I wasn't thinking of that case!)   
   >   
   > Just an idle wonder, of the sort that might suggest I have too much time   
   > on my hands (which I don't!). I just don't _think_ I've ever heard   
   > anyone refer to either a half half something or a quarter something!   
   >   
   > (* The "half" terminology doesn't clarify _where_ the second marriage   
   > took place - for a half third cousin, for example, you don't know if it   
   > was a grandparent, GGP, or GGGP who married twice - or on which side.)   
      
   The only example I can think of is where there has been a multi-racial   
   partnership at one point and you get a Quadroon, ie someone with one   
   coloured grandparent. Not an expression I have come across for a long   
   time and I suspect it would now be regarded, probably rightly, as insulting.   
      
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