'Relation calculator'

[andyoxon]

Quite a neat function.

What e.g. relation is your father's mother's sister's daughter's son...

http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=father%27s+mother%27s+sister%27s+daughter%27s+son

[robgul]

By absolute chance I was trying to work out, for my daughters, the relationship to their :   "Father's brother's son's son"  ... the site told me : First cousin, once removed, and a 1/32nd blood line    [Wry smile about "once removed" ... the child is yet to be born, due in May]

Rob

[Basil]

I've often wondered, if a good chum of mine who is my wife's brother's wife (in other words my wife's SiL, or my BiL's wife) is my sister-in-law, my sister-in-law-in-law, or neither of these

[andyoxon]

By absolute chance I was trying to work out, for my daughters, the relationship to their :   "Father's brother's son's son"  ... the site told me : First cousin, once removed, and a 1/32nd blood line    [Wry smile about "once removed" ... the child is yet to be born, due in May]

Rob

I had also looked up a line that is: First cousin, once removed, but it's different (goes back to great grandparents) - http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=father%27s+mother%27s+sister%27s+daughter
Is that right?

[arabella]

Probably - the remove is in the other direction.
It's when one party and the parent of the other party are actual first cousins, and doesn't matter which way around.
So one party's grandparents are the other party's great-grandparents

[Jaded]

I'll bet that calculator doesn't work in Swindon.