Blood Relations

BLOOD RELATIONS:

Husband of Mother	Father
Wife of Father	Mother
Father or Mother’s Son	Brother
Father or Mother’s Daughter	Sister
Father or Mother’s Brother	Uncle
Father or Mother’s Sister	Aunt
Father or Mother’s Father	Grandfather
Father of Father or Mother	Grandfather
Father of Grandfather or Grandmother	Great Grandfather
Mother of Father or Mother	Grandmother
Father or Mother’s Mother	Grandmother
Mother of Grandfather or Grandmother	Great Grandmother
Husband’s or Wife’s Sister	Sister-in-law
Son’s Wife	Daughter-in-law
Brother’s or Sister’s Son	Nephew
Brother’s Daughter	Niece
Aunt’s or Uncle’s Son or Daughter	Cousin
Sister’s Husband	Brother-in-Law
Brother’s Wife	Sister-in-law
Grandfather’s or Grandmother’s Son	Father or Uncle
Uncle’s Wife	Aunt
Daughter’s Husband	Son-in-Law

POINTS TO REMEMBER:

Step: 1 Questions may be asked in Deduction Method or Pictorial Method.

Step: 2 Try to draw diagram, for given relationships which help you to understand clear relationship.

Step: 3 Identify the relationships, but not with names because there are certain names common for both genders.

Lets see some examples

Question: 1

Pointing to men, Sai said that, “His only brother is the father of my daughter’s father. How is the men related to Sai??

A)     Grandfather          B) Uncle                  C) Father              D) Brother-in-Law

Answer: Uncle

Explanation:

My daughter’s father = me (sai)

Father of my daughter’s father = sai’s father

Only brother of sai’s father= Uncle

Question: 2

Introducing a man, a woman said that, his wife is the only daughter of my father”. How is this women related to men?

A)     Husband         B) Brother                C) Father-in-Law              D) Brother-in-Law

 Answer: Husband

Explanation:

Only daughter of my father= me or that women

Then that men is the Husband of that women

Question: 3

Pointing to the women in the photograph, bhavya said, she is the sister of the father of my mother’s son. Then who is the women to bhavya?

A) Sister         B) Aunt               C) Sister-in-Law              D) Mother

Answer: Aunt  

Explanation:

My mother’s son= bhavya’s brother

Father of bhavya’s brother = bhavya’s Father

Sister of bhavya’s Father = Aunt

Question: 4

Pointing towards a boy, a man said that he is the only son of the only son of the husband of the Mother-in-law of my wife. How is the boy related to the man?

B)     Husband         B) Son              C) Father-in-Law              D) Brother-in-Law

Answer: Son

Explanation:

Mother-in-law of my wife = mother of that man= man’s mother

Husband of the man’s mother = man’s father

Only son of man’s father = that person only

only son of that person = his son