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From: "Tessa King" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] A Genealogists Nightmare!!
Date: Sun, 2 Mar 2003 07:22:40 +0200
References: <NDBBKLFHGKFDDFJFLNPMKEGMFNAA.paultt@onetel.net.uk>


Hi everyone

This is great. I was sent it some years ago and my cousin got clever and
drew up a tree of the story. It is a jpg document and if anyone would like
it, please contact me off list. This is the different wording I received,
but same story. It is actually based upon a country song (according to
someone who responded to the initial email). Paul I've sent it to you
already!

Many, many years ago when I was twenty-three,
I got married to a widow who was pretty as could be.
This widow had a grown-up daughter who had hair of red.
My father fell in love with her, and soon the two were wed.

This made my dad my son-in-law and changed my very life.
My daughter was my mother, for she was my father's wife.
To complicate the matters worse, although it brought me joy.
I soon became the father of a bouncing baby boy.

My little baby then became a brother-in-law to dad.
And so became my uncle, though it made me very sad.
For if he was my uncle, then that also made him brother
To the widow's grown-up daughter who, of course, was my stepmother.

Father's wife then had a son, who kept them on the run.
And he became my grandson, for he was my daughter's son.
My wife is now my mother's mother and it makes me blue.
Because, although she is my wife, she's my grandma too.

If my wife is my grandmother, then I am her grandchild.
And every time I think of it, it simply drives me wild.
For now I have become the strangest case you ever saw.
As the husband of my grandmother, I am my own grandpa!!


Best wishes
Tessa King





----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Tanner-Tremaine <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, February 25, 2003 6:00 PM
Subject: [ZA] A Genealogists Nightmare!!


Two men met at a bar and struck up a conversation. One of them kept
complaining of family problems.

Finally, the other man said: "You think you have family problems?"

"Listen to my situation, A few years ago I met a young widow with a grown-up

daughter and we got married. Later my father married my stepdaughter. That
made my stepdaughter my stepmother and my father became my stepson. Also, my
wife became mother-in-law of her father-in-law.

"Then the daughter of my wife, my stepmother, had a son. This boy was my
half-brother because he was my father's son, but he was also the son of my
wife's daughter which made him my wife's grandson. That made me the
grandfather of my half-brother.

"This was nothing until my wife and I had a son. Now the half-sister of my
son, my stepmother, is also the grandmother.

"This makes my father the brother-in-law of my child, whose stepsister is my
father's wife, I'm my stepmother's brother-in-law, my wife is her own
child's aunt, my son is my
father's nephew and I'm My own grandfather!

"And you think you have family problems!"

~~~~~~~~~

Apologies for being Off Topic, but I Love it! We all need a bit of light
relief now and then....

PaulTT


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