Re: OT: Family roots?

Well, was just seeing if anyone had any knowledge of select
family roots of mine in the US/Canada area, but .. back to
conlangs..

How to say things like:

God-daughter, what I call my ex-gfs daughter, after I found out
she was not mine biologically but is more mine in spirit, since
I was there as much as possible from before her birth and until
I had to move and lost contact when she was Six.

Also other family relationships that the current English forms
have problems with.

1/2 Siblings, okay, easy, but what about

Step Uncle or Step Uncle In Law?

Adams family not the Addams Family, used to have an old VW
Manual/Advert book with Uncle Fester in it, wish I still had
it..

Mike

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tristan Alexander McLeay" <conlang@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:02 AM
Subject: Re: OT: Family roots?


> On 24/05/06, Michael Adams <abrigon@...> wrote:
> >
> > Family:
> > Adams: atleast 1700
>
> I thought the Addams family were created in the 1930s.
>
> > Hayden: c.1632
>
> Make that "c. 1932", if you're talking of the former
Australian
> Governor-General's birthday.
>
> > Grant: c.1632
> > Cover: ?
> > Donovan: c.1849
> > O'Meara: c.1849
> > Delaney: c.1849
>
> Not a clue! (I think there was a teacher at one of my schools
whose
> surname was "Grant", and while teachers might seem a little
> old-fashioned, 1632 is a bit older than I had in mind.)
>
> > Parks: Unknown but atleast pre-civil war.
>
> I would certainly hope so! (Though I suppose the the first
park might
> not have come before the first civil war.)
>
> > sound familiar to anyone?
>
> Not in the least. Michael, one thing about your posts is they
often
> seem very apropos of nothing. Could you include a bit of
context from
> a previous posts so we know what's happening? Also, I have no
problems
> at all with changing the subject header, but my current mail
client
> only threads messages based on their subject, so perhaps you
could do
> something like "OT: Family roots? (was: (old thread
subject))",
> replacing "(old thread subject)" with whatever the old thread
subject
> was.
>
> --
> Tristan.