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From: "Leo van de Pas" <>
Subject: Re: More on Collateral Descent
Date: Thu, 16 Mar 2000 07:24:48 +0800


Dear Peter
You are correct, on this group I have used in the past the term
'ancestral uncle and ancestral aunt'.
Best wishes
Leo van de Pas

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Sent: Thursday, March 16, 2000 6:59 AM
Subject: Re: More on Collateral Descent


> My french co genealogists refer to a brother of an ancestor as mon oncle
'my
> uncle'
> a sister, ma tante, 'My aunt' and so on. As we are speaking on the same
> subject, it is easy for me to understand when one says that his uncle in
the
> seventh generation was so and so ..Isnt this simpler..and more familial?
> PG
>

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