The wife of the wife's brother is a friend, comrade and ... daughter-in-law

It so happened that in the difficult moments of our lives, the closest and most loved people come to the rescue. It is they who become during this period a reliable support and protection. There is a popular belief in the people, which says: "Where not to cope alone, there will help the family".

A man is only one branch in a large family tree. Now there is a very big interest in learning about family roots. Genealogy deals with this. It helps to form a family tree. It can be drawn in the form of a graphic scheme, which can be ascending - from the famous oldest ancestor to descendants, or descending - from you to ancestors. Here, family ties are clearly visible . It is desirable for each person in the ancestral tree to have a separate card, where to indicate all the information about it. For example: "The wife of his wife's brother is Ivanova Maria Ivanovna, the year of birth, children."

Since a person during the course of life acquires more and more new relatives, the scheme will become more and more branched. Some concepts are well known from childhood: father, mother, sister, brother, mother-in-law, father-in-law. But in some it is very difficult to understand. For example, the wife of his wife's brother is who? Sister, sister-in-law, daughter-in-law?

The terms of family relationship are striking in variety. They were born in Ancient Rus. There are the following types of relationship:

• Blood, uniting a common ancestor;
• Not blood, uniting marriage;
• Spiritual, uniting the kuma.

The most complex system is blood relationship, which has several degrees. Each generation has its own niche in the genealogical tree. Children are the first degree of kinship, grandchildren are the second, etc. The second cousins and brothers are the sixth step.

A completely different story with non-blood relatives. Spouses are not related at all. Only marriage ties them together. Relatives of the spouse become indirect members of the family.

• The wife of her son is the daughter-in-law.
• The brother of the wife is a brother-in-law.
• The wife of his wife's brother is a daughter-in-law.
• The brother of the spouse is a brother-in-law.
• The sister of the wife is sister-in-law.

It is interesting that a man is a son-in-law and a mother-in-law, a father-in-law, and a brother-in-law. Spouses of two sisters are considered svoyaki, but sister-in-law are not the spouses of two brothers. The wife of the wife's brother is not only a daughter-in-law, she is also called a daughter-in-law.

The ability and desire to find a common language with representatives of the older generation and live with them in harmony is not given to everyone. Since ancient times, there was such a tradition that the son brought his wife into the house. She did not dare to contradict her mother-in-law. If the wife of the elder brother lived in the house, she took care of the younger daughter-in-law, helped her to settle in a new family, taught all the wisdom, shared her experience. When a young child appeared in a young family, the wife of her brother - daughter-in-law - helped with housework: she fed the men and washed them.

That's exactly the way the family looked like, which did one thing in common, they were a team. Everything in the house was shared, and no one divided anything into your-mine. In the family they taught patience, respect, honored elders. Times have changed, and now it is better for different generations to live separately, as co-living increases the number of disagreements, which leads to quarrels and divorces. Now they even say that the further their relatives live, the more they are related.