Hi, Kathy.  The terms "grand-aunt" and "grand-uncle" have been used for several centuries as designators for the sibling of grandparents and as a substitute for the single "great uncle" or "great aunt".  I once thought the term was rather peculiar to the South, but have since found it virtually everywhere.  It derives from the terms GRANDfather and GRANDmother.  Paul          
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  To keep the number of great aunts and uncles in line I've found it easier to
  refer to the siblings of my grandparents as "grandaunts" and granduncles"
  (slightly archaic terms, but equally correct).  That way your great
  grandmother and great grandaunt are of the same generation and so on.


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