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Show HINTS AND EXPLANATIONS. 35 2. AFFINITIES.- Kindred by marriage. These are of two classes : a. Those which arise from the marriage of the relatives of " Self." 6. Those which arise from the marriage of " Self." Those classes of kinships will be treated of severally in the order above mentioned. The personal figures used on the charts are as follows: ^ ^ represents a male relative. ^ T^ represents a female relative. represents a female affinity. represents a female relative of affinity. " Self" is in the center of Chart No. i, and must be used, as will hereafter be seen, in one set of questions as a male person, in another set of questions as a female person. Each relative is paired with an affinity, except in certain cases hereafter explained. The relatives only are numbered, but the same numbers are to be used for the corresponding affinities. The relatives on the charts are numbered to correspond with the relatives in the schedule. RELATIVES. From the study of many tribes in North America, it has been found necessary to extend the investigation of kinship terms to the group of people that may possibly arise from nine lineal generations, four below " Self" and four above. All the groups are established within five generations, two above " Self" and two below, but the third and fourth below and t |
