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From: "johncol" <>
Subject: Re: [ZA] A Genealogists Nightmare!!
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 13:42:53 +0200
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Hi Tessa

Thanks for your offer. I would love to have a copy of that particular tree
It must be very interesting. If you dont mind please send me a copy

Kind Regards

John
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Tessa King" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, March 02, 2003 7:22 AM
Subject: Re: [ZA] A Genealogists Nightmare!!


> 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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