I Am My Own Grandpa

Can your genealogy program properly display these relationships? I published the lyrics to this song some time ago at http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2005/01/i_am_my_own_gra.html. However, you can now watch the video. Click on the icon below:

Comments

[Gloria Ishida]

I actually remember the song from way way back and got into it again when I started ancestry and found the YouTube selection. thanks for pointing it out. Hilarious. Crazy thing - this can almost actually happen.

GI in Japan

[Pam]

The ASCAP music database reveals that the writers of this then are Moe Jaffe and Dwight B. Latham.

The listed performances (recordings) of this song are: Chet Atkins, David Grisman, Grandpa Jones, D Grisman (probably another performance by David), Homer & Jethro, Jesters, G. Jones, G. Lambardo, Lonzo & Oscar, B Pickering, and R. Stevens.

Moe Jaffe from Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moe_Jaffe

More on the song:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%27m_My_Own_Grandpa

[Merlene Hutto Byars]

This is a really fun video-----I would love to have a CD. Having traced my ancestry back to Adam and Eve through the royal families I can see how this might actually happen. No, I do not go through Jesus as soon folks ask, but though his early father Joseph and his father, King Heli. Tracing genealogy from age 12 to 75 is fun. Merlene Byars

[Thomas Hamburger Jnr]

Great to see this video, Dick!

Makes Laurel McFry and Lillian Blyth's relationship seem quite normal!

Kind Regards

THJnr

[Loretta Krumwiede Barlow]

I remember getting a kick out of this song many, many years ago. My double-cousins in my dad's family sometimes end discussions of family connections in our marriages to deceased spouse's relative with children in both marriages and many cousin marriages with references to this song. What a treat to see and hear this again.

[Doug Tracy]

pass it on

[Marilyn]

When my father's father (a widower) married my mother's mother (a widow), making my parents brother and sister, we talked about this song within the family many times.

[Ron Fedele]

I have a very close type of relationship in my family. My grandfather was my Grandmother's (his wife) step uncle (his sister married my grandmother's widowed father). They had 2 son's (my grandmothers half brother's and nephews by marriage). One of her brothers was also my godfather (to add more confusion).

Ron

[Randy Seaver]

Dick asked if genealogy software could display these relationships. I tried using FamilyTreeMaker and Personal Ancestral File recently, but could not make a chart easily readable. So I made my own chart using the relationships in the song.

The words and my pedigree chart are on my blog post at http://randysmusings.blogspot.com/2006/06/i-am-my-own-grandpa.html from back in June 2006.
Cheers -- Randy