I am running into problems which are not in German dictionaries and grammars. I am trying to refine my German translation of my WEDEMEYER Chapter 1:
The English abbreviation of great great great grandfather is easily recognised when written as
g-g-g grandfather.
In my innocence, I thought that the German of this would be g-g-g Großvater. However I then realised that "great grandfather" is written in German as "Urgroßvater". What do the German genealogists do with "g-g-g grandfather"?
Also, a question about abbreviating captions under photos. Is it acceptable to abbreviate:
Foto: Mit Höflichkeit von J. Smith
to:
Foto: Höflichkeit J. Smith
Hi Philip,
There are two ways to express this in German
First multiple use of the prefix "Ur". g-g-g grandfather would be
Urururgroßvater, or (more often used for more previous relatives)
3xUrgroßvater.
That's to the best of my knowledge the most common way to express this.
Second there are - more seldom used - specific terms for each generation
(Ahnenbezeichnungen – GenWiki)
Best regards
Ralf (Jordan)
ahnen@rgjordan.de
Hello,
I suppose you took "Mit Höflichkeit von..." from "courtesy of". This does *definitely not* translate as "Höflichkeit". Appropiate might be "... mit freundlicher Genehmigung von ...".
Yours
Heiko
Hallo!
Philip wrote:
In my innocence, I thought that the German of this would be g-g-g
Gro�vater. However I then realised that "great grandfather" is written in
German as "Urgro�vater". What do the German genealogists do with "g-g-g
grandfather"?
I do it in the following way:
Gfather= Grossvater
GGfather = UrGrossvater
GGG-father = 2UrGrossvater (UrUrGrossvater)
GGGG-father = 3UrGrossvater (UrUrUrGrossvater)
.....and so on!
Greetings from Bremen
Cord
Dr. Cord Winde
D-28209 Bremen
drwindecord@compuserve.de
Diepholz, 07th of February 2008
Dear Philip,
Grossvater Grandfather
Urgrossvater Greatgrandfather
Ururgrossvater or Altvater Gggrandfather
Altgrossvater Ggggrandfather
Alturgrossvater Gggggrandfather
Obervater 5grandfather
Obergrossvater 6grandfather
Oberurgrossvater 7grandfather
Stammvater 8grandfather
Stammgrossvater 9grandfather
Stammurgrossvater 10grandfather
Ahnenvater 11grandfather
Ahnengrossvater 12grandfather
Ahnenurgrossvater 13grandfather
qu.: Vordruck 101 Ahnentafel-Personenkarte, Dividex-Bogen DRP 480 577
DIN A 4
Greetings
Falk Liebezeit
Diepholz