Relationships

[ChrisMone]

Hi there

We are new to this and having a discussion with some relatives.

We would like to know the official term for the following relationship (e.g. third cousin twice removed etc.)

The relationship is as follows:

Our sons mothers fathers mothers sisters sons daugthers daughter.

What is the proper way of describing this relationship.

Many thanks

Chris & mone

[Burrow Digger]

"Our sons mothers fathers mothers sisters sons daughters daughter."


mothers sister = sisters

both sisters had a son - so the sons are first cousins

both sons had daughters so the daughters are second cousins

one daughter had a son and the other had a daughter - that makes them 3rd cousins

I would say third cousins. :)

both children have the same gt gt grandparents.

Burrow Digger

[ChrisMone]

Thanks for the reply Burrow Digger.

Our attempts to resolve the family tree had started to wonder whether the cousins were "removed" because of the female genealogy.

How does a family tree become removed?

ChrisMone

[Sharron]

The "removed" relates to a generation apart. So, my mother's first cousin is my first cousin once removed. My grandfather's first cousin, say, would be my first cousin twice removed, and so on.

[Clive Blackaby]

Something that has always bothered me about "removed cousin" relationships.

I have a first cousin - we have the same grandparents.

He has a daughter

According to every rule I've seen:-She is my first cousin once removed ANDI am her first cousin once removedSo if this was recorded (say in my will 300 years ago - OK, OK, I would have described her as my cousin, but just to illustrate the problem) how would anyone know whether she was a generation ahead of me, or a generation behind me??

(And of course she used to call me "Uncle Clive" until I told her that I'd box her ears if she did it again - that was before she was too tall for me to reach :))

[Geoffers]

How does a family tree become removed?
Emigration?

;)

or possibly in a removal lorry??

Happy Christmas