great-granduncles

Grandparents' paternal uncles

Great-granduncles is the plural of great-granduncle—a sibling of one's great-grandparent.

This places them three generations above you, alongside your great-grandparents.

My great-granduncles all emigrated from Poland in the 1890s.

kinship

grandaunts

Grandparents' sisters

ancestors · forebears · kinfolk · relations · clan · lineage · bloodline · generations · descendants · offspring

genealogy

ancestry

Family line of descent

census · surnames · genealogist · heritage · roots · lineage · descent · progenitors · forebears · generations

remembrance

stories

Accounts or building levels

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Opposites
generational direction

great-grandunclesgreat-grandnephews

Male descendants of niblings, twice-removed

great-grandnieces · grandnephews · grandnieces · descendants · great-grandchildren

gender

great-grandunclesgreat-grandaunts

Grandparents' aunts

Family

great, grand, uncle, granduncle, great-granduncle, uncles, granduncles, greater, greatest

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