Family relationships

[justcheckingitout]

I have an artist that is the grandson of another artist.
I know that relationships can be son/father, but I don’t see grandson/grandfather.

[jesus2099]

Distant family relationships

Uje Brandelius sings (translated): My most famous relative was called Harry Brandelius He was a famous singer in the 40s Well, that’s just for curiosity. Anyway, Wikipedia says that Harry is Uje’s paternal grandfather’s brother. I think this is an interesting relationship and I would like to store it. I’m pretty sure MusicBrainz has some kind of guideline about not adding non-creative people for a single relationship, but do you think this would be fine? The names of the relatives inbetwe…

[justcheckingitout]

But being that both artists are already listed on MB, and we do have the family relationship feature…

[reosarevok]

Basically, the idea is “add the intermediate person, if you have a name and any info to add, even if it’s not a musician itself”.

[HibiscusKazeneko]

If that info isn’t available, you can just add an annotation with links.

[justcheckingitout]

@reosarevok

Basically, the idea is “add the intermediate person, if you have a name and any info to add, even if it’s not a musician itself”.

So I can add a random John Doe who happens to be the son and father of someone “famous”?

[reosarevok]

@justcheckingitout

So I can add a random John Doe who happens to be the son and father of someone “famous”?

Yup, see the post that was linked earlier

[justcheckingitout]

Sorry, I missed the link to the actual conversation in the top line. I had only seen the links to the people.