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
In late December, public-relations manager Danylo Boiko traveled with his parents and younger brother to a village south of Kyiv to celebrate Christmas with his great-grandparents.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 10, 2026
Third-degree relatives, such as cousins or great-grandparents and great-grandchildren, share one eighth.
From Science Daily • Feb. 19, 2026
"I wanted to remind people of the narrative of our grandmothers, grandfathers and great-grandparents, who throughout my childhood said that war is terrifying," the 28-year-old, who goes by the nickname Noi, told AFP.
From Barron's • Feb. 13, 2026
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
