great-grandparents
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Boyd’s great-grandparents, August and Antonia Maternowski, purchased Union in 1918 and ran it with the help of their 12 children.
From Salon ● Mar. 10, 2026
Third-degree relatives, such as cousins or great-grandparents and great-grandchildren, share one eighth.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 19, 2026
My parents were divorced, as were both sets of my grandparents and even some great-grandparents.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 2, 2026
“We must be prepared for the scale of war our grandparents or great-grandparents endured,” Mark Rutte warned over the weekend.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 16, 2025
The parents of a child provided, on average, half the content of that feature; the grandparents, a quarter; the great-grandparents, an eighth—and so forth, all the way back to the most distant ancestor.
From "The Gene" by Siddhartha Mukherjee
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