From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   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.)   
   --   
   J. P. Gilliver. UMRA: 1960/<1985 MB++G()AL-IS-Ch++(p)Ar@T+H+Sh0!:`)DNAf   
      
   If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they   
   don't want to hear. - Preface to "Animal Farm"   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
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