Re: How many 1st cousins 6x removed?

Eric Lafontaine said:

> Mike Williams wrote:
> [...]
>> We all have
>> 32 G(x4)Grandparents.
> 
> Even without resorting to *****, I could imagine one person marrying
> twice and figuring in two distinct places in the ancestor's catalogue.
> Granted, you never wrote 32 G(x4) _distinct_ grandparents...

This would appear to be the proper time to quote the following extract
from 
a Swiss newspaper, c.1922:

"I married a widow who had a grown-up daughter. My father, who visited us 
quite often, fell in love with my step-daughter and married her. Hence, my

father became my son-in-law, and my step-daughter became my mother. Some 
months later, my wife gave birth to a son, who became the brother-in-law 
of my father as well as my uncle. The wife of my father, that is my 
step-daughter, also had a son.
Thereby, I got a brother and at the same time a grandson. My wife is my 
grandmother, since she is my mother's mother. Hence, I am my wife's 
husband and at the same time her step-grandson; in other words, I am my 
own grandfather."

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