Re: How many 1st cousins 6x removed?

Mensanator said:

> On Jun 27, 4:47 pm, Richard Heathfield <r...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 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.
> 
> Shouldn't that be step-mother?

As far as I'm aware, the quotation is accurate. Any errors are therefore 
the responsibility of the originating journalist (who, if he still lives, 
must be at least a century old by now).

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