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From: "Toni" < (BYE.SAILOR)>
Subject: Re: dumb cousin question
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 21:18:41 -0400
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"Ottawa Olive" <> wrote in message
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> > >>Is my 1st cousin's daughter my 2nd cousin or my 1st cousin once
> > >>removed?
> > >>
> > >She is your 1st cousin once removed, Your child will be her 2nd cousin.
>
> Not a dumb question at all !! This subject puzzles lots of people.
>
> The first-cousinship continues forever through generations. Your child
will
> be your first cousin's first cousin once removed. Your grandchild will be
> your first cousin's first cousin, twice removed. Your great-grandchild
will
> be your first cousin's first cousin, three times removed. After that,
well,
> it just gets silly.
>
> Children of first cousins are second cousins.
>
> Barb in Ottawa, Ontario

You and I, being Canadians learned of relationships in this manner, which
comes from the British way of determining cousinship. The French may also
use the same, for I know French Canadians who do. This NG has a great many
USians posting/reading it and they apparently don't use the same method.
From previous postings on this question [from what I understand] they do not
use the "removed" but only 1st, 2nd, 3rd and so on. Personally, I find the
USian method rather confusing and in the end have no idea of who is actually
in the exact same generation, without seeing a written family tree. I'm my
2C's mother's 1C1R.

Toni ... Ontario Canada.
[Also hate seeing "my ggggggggrandfather" Easier to write and for others to
understand is - 6 x g-grandfather or even g-grandfather x 6]


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