Third Cousin, Twice Removed

“I've been wondering about this for a while. Then it hit me: ask TT - they know everything!

How do you figure out what relationship your various cousins are? Here's an example: My cousin (who just got engaged - woo hoo!) is the daughter of my mother's mother's sister's daughter. The easy part is that her mother is my grandmother's first cousin. But what is she to me? How about to Bowlderson?

One person told me that every level of cousins just adds to the number - first, second, third cousin, etc. But another person said each generation is a "removed" level.

Help!”

“The important question is, how far away do they have to be for you to be able to marry them?”

“Well my mother's cousin would be my second cousin - beyond that I get confused really fast.”

“The 'removed' part refers to generations (Amelia Earhart is my first, cousin three times removed - my grandfather's cousin.)

I don't know what a second or third cousin is.”

“ok, mother's mother's sister's daughter - geez Marty!

ok, so its the daughter of your grandma's sister.

So, its your great aunt's daughter, which would be mom's cousin, so its your second cousin.

i think”

“Aha!:

Children of FIRST COUSINS are SECOND COUSINS to each other.

Children of SECOND COUSINS are THIRD COUSINS to each other.”

“ive got some second cousins that are really hot!

(is it wrong to say that?)”

“My mother's sister has a daughter, Call her Betty. Betty is my first cousin.
Betty has a daughter, Rose. Rose is my second cousin.
Rose has a daughter, Patty. Patty is my third cousin.

When Patty comes of legal age, we could get married. ;-)”

“lyra's been in VT too long...”

“correction:

i have some first cousins once removed that are really hot!

that might be wrong!”

“The way I always looked at it was like this: siblings of my parents (aunts and uncles) along with their kids are first cousins, beyond that, nobody cares unless they have a lot of money. That person is your favorite relative.”

“Actually, this cousin used to live near my office, and one of my usual running routes went near her apartment building. She happened to be in her car, having just arrived home from work. She looked over across the street and noticed some hot looking dude with great legs. Wow, she though what a hot --- AACK! It's my cousin!! Now I'll be in therapy for years!!”

“Ding, ding, ding!
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“Heck, the little place I grew up in was hell on getting a date.
I was related in one way or the other to every girl within five miles.”

“Haha @ Nonconformist.

Actually I don't have any hot cousins, SACCO...I must've gotten all the hotness in the family. haha!! I was just looking out for you.”

“OK, using the Wikipedia explanation, my cousin who just got engaged is my 2nd cousin, once removed. Our common ancestors is her great grandfather and -mother, who are also my great, great grandfather and -mother. She is closer to that ancestor, so that determines the ordinal number cousin. In the Wikipedia example, the person whose great-great-grandparent is the common ancestor make it a third cousin, so with one fewer 'great,' we are second cousins. Then there's one additional generation from my side, so that's the once removed. BowlderSon is twice removed, being one further generational layer down.


Doh! I could've just scrolled down to the chart instead of reading the text....
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“Imagine all of lyra's cousin's drooling over her adorableness.....”

“Sick! LOL. Most of the cousins I know are a lot younger than me...they're cute, not hot.”

““The important question is, how far away do they have to be for you to be able to marry them?”

There is no scientific evidence that suggests cousins marrying and having kids will produce flipper kids. Einstein was a product of cousins.”

“Ya, the US is the only modern culture that makes such a big deal about cousins marrying.

Thats a funny song lz!”

“the incest thread gets the most action today. what does that say about us?”

“I love my cousins but don't wish to marry them.”

“One problem cousin marries have is when the marriage goes sour and they divorce it’s hard because you can divorce your wife or husband but ya can’t divorce the family. If I get divorced it means I never want to lay eyes on the woman again. It would suck having to see ex at every family gathering.”

“Even if you wouldn't have flipper kids, it's just sort of icky to grow up relating to someone in a "family" kind of way, and then end up relating to them in a "hot sex" kind of way...LOL. Like when Woody Allen married his adoptive child...no greater chance of birth defects, but it still made everyone throw up in their mouths.”

“I think it would depend on how hot your cousin is. LOL! I don't know my cousins because they all grew up out of state.”

“First cousins is legal in Alabama.

Thanks to the propensity for cousins to marry in the South, I am the direct descendant of three siblings. Aside from the murderous rampages, everything's cool.

Many years ago, when communities were smaller and people didn't travel as much, marrying a cousin was extremely common. I have great-grandparents who were fourth cousins, and another pair of great-grandparents that were second cousins once removed. It's no big deal.”

“Sure, you say it's no big deal, but you keep forgetting to mention how tough it is for you to find shirts with three armholes....”

“North Carolina has a freaking disclaimer?!? LMFAO!!”

“I love your title V..."Handy pocket guide:". I'm going to print this off and keep a copy in my wallet. Ya never know!

I gotta remember this when Violin starts talking down on me for living in podunk Ohio so I can remind him NJ allows cousin marraige but Ohio doesn't. Haha!”

“A couple weeks ago there were six of us sitting around playing a game that involved asking questions of each other. One of the questions had to do with sex with cousins. Well, wouldn't you know, one of the guys admitted to dating one of his cousins. They weren't first cousins, but they were cousins of some sort nonetheless. We gave him such a hard time over that one. He earned a new nickname that night: Cousinf**ker. Everyone is still using it when they talk to him: "Hey, CF, what's up?" I think he is wishing now that he had kept that tidbit of info to himself.


Oh yeah, I forgot to mention that he's from Kentucky...of course.
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