That chart indicates that both your great uncle's child AND your cousins child would be your "first cousin, once removed". That's not the way I always understood it. So, I looked it up. Sure enough, I learned something today.
I like the text definitions at: http://www.genealogy.com/16_cousn.html this helps explain it to me.
Looking at old genealogy records, I find what you call "great-great uncle" described as "great-grand uncle". I think I prefer it that way because it gives the same title as the great-grandfather, who is also of that generation. Easier to keep straight.
I have always understood the "once removed" concept, but then again my family is Southern, so that might be hereditary.
ReplyDeleteThat chart indicates that both your great uncle's child AND your cousins child would be your "first cousin, once removed". That's not the way I always understood it. So, I looked it up. Sure enough, I learned something today.
ReplyDeleteI like the text definitions at:
http://www.genealogy.com/16_cousn.html
this helps explain it to me.
All those little blank circles are the crazy in-laws and exes that provide us with something to talk about at the reunion.
ReplyDeleteLooking at old genealogy records, I find what you call "great-great uncle" described as "great-grand uncle". I think I prefer it that way because it gives the same title as the great-grandfather, who is also of that generation. Easier to keep straight.
ReplyDeleteOk, so what I want to know is.........what is my mother's counsin's son to me. Is he distant enough to marry - because he's HOT!
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