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Message:: [QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 421865, member: 59"]It's still important info for someone with less experience on genetic versus marital relationships. Ancestry never designates the spouse of a genetic aunt or uncle as an aunt or uncle, but rather lists as "wife of" or "husband of." But most families the wife of your mother's or father's brother is still called Aunt so and so. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/rolleyes.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":rolleyes:" unselectable="on" /> And then there's the honorific - I grew up thinking that all the women my mother instructed me to call Aunt were related to me - and I was wrong, of course. They were either my mother's close friends or my grandmother's close friends. My mother and her mother were both only children and my father only had one brother. Not an actual aunt in the place. <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/wink.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=";)" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]