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From: Eve McLaughlin <>
Subject: Re: Defn. 2nd cousin once removed
Date: Sun, 2 May 1999 11:34:59 +0100

In article <7g8fud$cde$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>,
writes
>Where can I find definitions of such terms? As I understand it, a second
>cousin is the child of a cousin, but once removed? Third cousins? HELP!!!
Fairly simple, if you write down a simplified tree of the generations
back from the cousin and you, keeping names of the generations level,
even if their ages are not. . At the top will be a common ancestor,
great grandfather. His sons/daughters -The first generation- are
siblings; and child of these siblings will be a first cousin to the
children of the others. any children of these cousin (who are not
siblings) are second cousins to each other. But if it goes to a fifth
generation in one line and not the other, then the parents are second
cousins, but the sticking out child is a second cousin once removed.
Grfr
bro bro

1st cousin 1st cousin

second cousin second cousin

2nd cos once removed
--
Eve McLaughlin

Author of the McLaughlin Guides for family historians
Secretary Bucks Genealogical Society

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