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  2. Grandparent - Wikipedia

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    Grandparents, individually known as grandmother and grandfather, or Grandma and Grandpa, are the parents of a person's father or mother – paternal or maternal.Every sexually reproducing living organism who is not a genetic chimera has a maximum of four genetic grandparents, eight genetic great-grandparents, sixteen genetic great-great-grandparents, thirty-two genetic great-great-great ...

  3. Family tree - Wikipedia

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    Great-grandparents are often in the center to portray four or five generations, which reflect the natural growth pattern of a tree as seen from the top but sometimes there can be great-great-grandparents or more. In a descendant tree, living relatives are common on the outer branches and contemporary cousins appear adjacent to each other.

  4. 40 Unique Grandparent Names That Aren't Grandma and Grandpa - AOL

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    The maternal grandparent names (i.e., mom’s parents) in Hindi. 6. Dadi and Dada. ... Yeye and Nainai are the words used for the paternal grandmother and grandfather in Chinese.

  5. Chinese kinship - Wikipedia

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    The "contemporary" interpretation ("今文說") defines the nine grades of relations to be four generations from the paternal line, three from the maternal line, and two from the wife's. Historically, this definition has been used during award, punishment and family annihilation.

  6. Allomothering in humans - Wikipedia

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    Maternal grandmothers improved child survival in 69% of cases while paternal grandmothers improved survival in only 53% of observed cases. They also found that paternal grandmothers were detrimental in two cases and maternal grandmothers in one. Paternal grandmothers may on average be older than maternal grandmothers, due to common age ...

  7. Matriname - Wikipedia

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    The usual lack of matrinames to pass on in patrilineal cultures makes traditional genealogy more difficult in the maternal line than in the paternal line. [1] After all, father-line surnames originated partly to identify individuals clearly and were adopted partly for administrative reasons, [c] and these patrinames help in searching for facts and documentation from centuries ago.

  8. Patrilineality - Wikipedia

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    Patrilineality, also known as the male line, the spear side [1] or agnatic kinship, is a common kinship system in which an individual's family membership derives from and is recorded through their father's lineage.

  9. Ahnentafel - Wikipedia

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    The subject (or proband) of the ahnentafel is listed as No. 1, the subject's father as No. 2 and the mother as No. 3, the paternal grandparents as No. 4 and No. 5 and the maternal grandparents as No. 6 and No. 7, and so on, back through the generations. Apart from No. 1, who can be male or female, all even-numbered persons are male, and all odd ...