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To: sionnsar

If I had some artistic talent,
I would draw a family tree,
but it makes my brain explode.


45 posted on 04/26/2008 9:52:00 PM PDT by Jo Nuvark (Those who bless Israel will be blessed, those who curse Israel will be cursed. Gen 12:3)
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To: Jo Nuvark
Doesn't really take artistic talent, just an ability to spacially visualize relationships --something that not everybody has.

Last year I drew up a chart of all the technical committees I was involved with [at the time], my involvement with each, and all the other related committees and their "lines of communication." It was a pretty impressive, even daunting, diagram but the engineers who saw it just went "Hmmmm..." and understood what they'd never grasped from verbal communications.

I started to draw a diagram but realized I didn't know the particulars of your daughter's husband's relationship to his cousin.

The traditional English expressions of relationships tend to break down when more than one relationship exists. For example, I know of two sisters, the younger of which (stop to think) is also aunt to the older; the same situation produces a daughter who is sister to the mother. [Situation: grandmother adopted one of her granddaughters.]

50 posted on 04/26/2008 10:11:16 PM PDT by sionnsar (trad-anglican.faithweb.com |Iran Azadi| 5yst3m 0wn3d - it's N0t Y0ur5 (SONY) | UN: Useless Nations)
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