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Subject: Re: Questions about cousins
Date: Sat, 2 Oct 2004 22:55:21 -0700
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More on cousins. Here's the URL to an old thread which discusses the two
"systems" of cousinhood.

http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/read/GENMTD/1999-01/0915383047

I also grew up with the one referred to here as the "folk" system, but
had heard of the "removes" before starting genealogy. I just had no idea
how to calculate cousinship beyond first cousin under that system,
learned it after getting into genealogy.

When you consider cousin marriages, a third cousin, for example, under
the "folk" system is much closer in blood than a 3rd cousin under the
"official" system and that may affect how people react to some cousin
marriages.

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