The Lee MacLellan Family Story
The Bridge to Beyond
We are at the point in our family story where we need to cross a bridge to continue. So far we've been talking about people who knew my grandparents, or at least were alive while they still lived. Now we need to cross the bridge to those who were born after Lee and Irma died, Lee in 1971 and Irma in 1977.
Crossing the bridge to the other side also means that memories and experiences are lost. It starts getting confusing determining who is a great something or a great great something, and how cousins are related.
So here are two relationship charts to help us determine who's who.
Going up a generation is easy. You have your parents, and then their parents, who are your grandparents, and so on. You are going vertically up and down the chart shown below left. Each yellow box represents a generation. We start this chart with Carson Leigh Teague at the bottom. She is the daughter of Leigh Sweeney Teague and Scott Teague. Her grandmother is my cousin Diana. Go up two levels and you have Lee and Irma, Diana's grandparents, and Carson's great-great-grandparents.
But if Diana is my cousin, what is my relationship to Leigh, and Carson?
To determine that we first need to go start in the right column, with Carson in the bottom box. So starting from my box and going left, you can see Diana is my first cousin, and Leigh my first cousin once-removed. But then we need to go down a level to see that Carson (at the bottom) is my first cousin twice removed.
