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JennZ
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First cousin, once removed?
What does that mean. DH has been making me crazy with this and I have no idea. What is "once, twice removed" mean?? TIA.
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MikesWife
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Re: First cousin, once removed?
Your first cousin once removed is your mom or dad's first cousin. You are once removed from him/her by a generation.
Your second cousins are your parents first cousins kids.
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| Posted 4/30/07 3:28 PM |
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Elbee
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Re: First cousin, once removed?
From Wikipedia
A cousin in English kinship terminology is a relative with whom one shares a common grandparent or more distant ancestor, and who is not in one's own line of descent.
The term cousin never applies where there are other specific terms to describe relationships. These specific terms involve one's ancestors (mother, father, and all forms of grandparent) and their siblings (all forms of aunt and uncle), one's own descendants (child, grandchild, etc.), and one's own siblings (brother, sister) and their descendants (all forms of niece and nephew).
A system of degrees and removes is used to describe the relationship between the two cousins and the ancestor they have in common. The degree (first, second, third cousin, etc.) indicates the minimum number of generations separating either of the cousins from the common ancestor; the remove (once removed, twice removed, etc.) indicates the number of generations, if any, separating the two cousins from each other.
In this system, the child of one's aunt or uncle is one's first cousin. The child of one's first cousin is one's first cousin once removed.
The system can handle kinships going back many generations. In 2004, genealogists discovered that U.S. Presidential candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry shared a common ancestral couple in the 1500s. It was reported that the two men are sixteenth cousins, three times removed. [1] [2]
Non-genealogical usage often eliminates the degrees and removes, and refers to people with common ancestors merely as cousins or distant cousins.
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| Posted 4/30/07 3:30 PM |
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SweetTooth
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Re: First cousin, once removed?
Posted by MikesWife
Your first cousin once removed is your mom or dad's first cousin. You are once removed from him/her by a generation.
Your second cousins are your parents first cousins kids.
I'm pretty sure your mom or dad's first cousin is your second cousin.
Your first cousin's kid would be your first cousin once removd.
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| Posted 4/30/07 3:33 PM |
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JennZ
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Re: First cousin, once removed?
Posted by Elbee
From Wikipedia
A cousin in English kinship terminology is a relative with whom one shares a common grandparent or more distant ancestor, and who is not in one's own line of descent.
The term cousin never applies where there are other specific terms to describe relationships. These specific terms involve one's ancestors (mother, father, and all forms of grandparent) and their siblings (all forms of aunt and uncle), one's own descendants (child, grandchild, etc.), and one's own siblings (brother, sister) and their descendants (all forms of niece and nephew).
A system of degrees and removes is used to describe the relationship between the two cousins and the ancestor they have in common. The degree (first, second, third cousin, etc.) indicates the minimum number of generations separating either of the cousins from the common ancestor; the remove (once removed, twice removed, etc.) indicates the number of generations, if any, separating the two cousins from each other.
In this system, the child of one's aunt or uncle is one's first cousin. The child of one's first cousin is one's first cousin once removed.
The system can handle kinships going back many generations. In 2004, genealogists discovered that U.S. Presidential candidates George W. Bush and John Kerry shared a common ancestral couple in the 1500s. It was reported that the two men are sixteenth cousins, three times removed. [1] [2]
Non-genealogical usage often eliminates the degrees and removes, and refers to people with common ancestors merely as cousins or distant cousins.
Thank you.  this helps, I just sent it to him. TY all again.
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| Posted 4/30/07 3:35 PM |
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MegZee
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Re: First cousin, once removed?
Posted by SweetTooth
Posted by MikesWife
Your first cousin once removed is your mom or dad's first cousin. You are once removed from him/her by a generation.
Your second cousins are your parents first cousins kids.
I'm pretty sure your mom or dad's first cousin is your second cousin.
Your first cousin's kid would be your first cousin once removd.
nope, Mikeswife has it right.
Your cousins kids are once removed. Your cousins children and your children are second cousins.
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| Posted 4/30/07 3:48 PM |
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MarathonKnitter
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Re: First cousin, once removed?
wow!
i just learned something.
thanks
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| Posted 4/30/07 3:52 PM |
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Kara
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Re: First cousin, once removed?
Posted by SweetTooth
Posted by MikesWife
Your first cousin once removed is your mom or dad's first cousin. You are once removed from him/her by a generation.
Your second cousins are your parents first cousins kids.
I'm pretty sure your mom or dad's first cousin is your second cousin.
Your first cousin's kid would be your first cousin once removd.
In legal terms, this is right. Your first cousin's child is your first cousin once removed.
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| Posted 4/30/07 5:21 PM |
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groovypeg
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Re: First cousin, once removed?
i was an anthropology major in college.
i found genealogy.com to be a useful resource.
check out this link:
http://www.genealogy.com/genealogy/16_cousn.html
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| Posted 4/30/07 7:38 PM |
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beautyq115
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Re: First cousin, once removed?
WOW I never knew what that meant either Thanks
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| Posted 4/30/07 7:41 PM |
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Goldi0218
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Re: First cousin, once removed?
The generations should line up. First cousins are all children of siblings of one family. The offspring of first cousins are second cousins. The offspring of second cousins are third cousins. When generations do not line up, they are removed.
Message edited 4/30/2007 7:57:24 PM.
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