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family

n. 1) husband, wife and children. 2) all blood relations. 3) all who live in the same household including servants and relatives, with some person or persons directing this economic and social unit.

family

(Common ancestry), noun ancestry, birth, blood connection, clan, common extraction, common forebears, common lineage, common parentage, consanguinity, descent, dynasty, ethnic group, ethnicity, filiation, folk, genealogy, house, kin, kindred, kinsmen, line, line of ancestors, line of descent, lineage, origin, parentage, people, same line of descent, same strain, sept, stirps, stock, strain, tribe

family

(Household), noun brood, domestic circle, dooestic establishment, familia, family unit, home circle, issue, offspring, progeny
Associated concepts: adoption, curtesy, dependent, domestic relation, dower, Family Court, family law, family purpose doccrine, head of household, heirs, next of kin, surviving spouse

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My great-grandmother went up to her and the mother said, 'She is very, very hungry and I have no more milk'.

Col's Salma is a feeding lady.. ACTRESS USES OWN MILK FOR HUNGRY AFRICAN TOT

These are the small results of an extraordinary journey that taught me not only who the whites were, but also a great deal about the lives of my great-grandmother and other African Americans the Campbells either owned or employed after the war.

The face in the mirror: a writer's search for the Confederates in the family tree leads to some unexpected discoveries

Today, on my mother's ninety-second birthday, she tells me something I never knew: my great-grandmother, after whom I am named, was a writer.

Pursuing passion after three generations

AFTER: great-grandmother Mary Richardson was left for dead; BEFORE: Mary has liver cancer

Widow, 81 battered by burglars

My great-grandmother was a Sicilian immigrant who took care of her grandchildren so her children could find work during the Depression.

Take prayer into your own hands: the rosary's manual prayer has been passed down by generations of working-class women

Two sprightly great-grandmothers climbed their way into the record books by becoming the oldest people in the world to abseil.

Great-gran of 91 abseils 144ft

Roy (Cheryl) and Carol (Jim) Hailmann; beloved grandmother of Carla (Lorn) Duschen, Scott (Sherry), Julie (Ron) Staiger, Stacy (Benjamin) Fritchen, Lisa (Damien) Galvin, Richard, Ryan (Carrie) and Michael Hailmann; fond great-grandmother of 12; dear great-great-grandmother of 2; cherished sister of Alice Wochnick, wonderful friend to many.

RAVAGNIE

Beloved wife of the late Thomas Owen (Owie), dear mother of John, fond step mother and a dearly loved grandmother and great-grandmother.

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A GREAT-GRANDMOTHER celebrated her 90th birthday with a weeklong celebration, including a trip to a Cardiff drag bar.

Doreen turns 90 with a family party and trip to Minsky's bar! 48 south wales echo FRIDAY, JUNE 24, 2016 @WalesOnline celebrations If you want your special day to appear on this page call Katie Sands on 029 2024 3633 or email katie.sands@walesonline.co.uk

A GREAT-GRANDMOTHER who decided to try skydiving for the first time aged 89 has described the jump as "a chance of a lifetime".

Sky's limit as 89-year-old completes parachute jump

THERE'S clearly something in the genes as one Coventry great-grandmother celebrated her 100th birthday.

THERE'S clearly

New York, May 13 ( ANI ): Carolyn Meiselbach, a 79-year-old great-grandmother from Brooklyn, disobeyed her doctors' orders to skydive 13,500 feet out of an airplane in New York.