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Ancestry/Genealogy

markpkessinger

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4. Another way to think of it . . .

Reply to no_hypocrisy (Reply #2)

Mon Oct 19, 2015, 10:09 PM

Oct 2015

If the closest common ancestor is a grandparent, you're cousins.
If the closest common ancestor is a great grandparent, you're second cousins.
If you share a common ancestor is a great great grandparent, third cousins.
Etc., etc.

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Just got off the phone with a woman who is my cousin. [View all] no_hypocrisy Oct 2015 OP

I believe that makes you 2nd Cousins. CanonRay Oct 2015 #1

If you're both the children of two first cousins, no_hypocrisy Oct 2015 #2

Thanks for that link.... Little Star Oct 2015 #3

Another way to think of it . . . markpkessinger Oct 2015 #4

I found this information about how many "cousins" you may have interesting hillbillytom Dec 2015 #5

First Cousins, Once Removed Algernon Moncrieff Oct 2016 #6

Late reply to this, but you are not right. Thor_MN Jan 2017 #7

It is a "grand" aunt, not a "great" aunt CountAllVotes May 2017 #8

Great and Grand with aunts and uncles is the same thing. Thor_MN May 2017 #9