Cynangyl said:
I understand second cousins but once you get into the once removed thing I get confused too! lol
Just remember, if you are first, second, third cousins....their children to you are once, twice, three times removed....
you brother siblings
child nephew
child great nephew
you cousin 1st cousin
child 1st cousin once removed
child 1st cousin twice removed
you brother sibling
child child 1st cousins
child child 2nd cousins
child 2nd cousin once removed
child 2nd cousin twice removed
LOL........hard to do a chart like this on here..........
mcgearhead said:
My sister married our fourth cousin ! She was so sad and cried for days ! She thought she was going to have to get a divorce or something. But it was by marrage, from some one way back in the line, that it doesn't even matter that much.
It was kinda spooky at first, but now we just laugh about it !
My brother in law was dating this girl for two years, and one day I decided to ask her about her lineage (since she and he were getting real serious, thought I would get an early start on the family tree). Come to find out, I already had her in the family tree. She was 6th cousins once removed from my brother in law....it was ok to marry, but she did not feel comfortable! They didn't last much longer, not cause of that fact, but for other reasons.
My mother in law was making fun of my hubby's father's lineage....as my hubby is not only his father's son, but they are also 6th, 7th and 8th cousins (depending on which lineage you are looking at!). Not kidding either!!!!
Well, not to long after that, this woman contacted me about my maiden name and wanted to see if we were connected. While going through her GEDCOM file she sent me...I found family relations to my mother in law. I could NOT WAIT to go over to see her and LAUGH my butt off.....this woman's family tree had my mother in law's family in it and my mother in law was NOT ONLY the daughter to her mother, but 8th cousins as well! LMAO!!!!
Then recently, went to a family reunion at Ocean City (in August). We were meeting on the beach. Here I am in capri pants, shirt, carrying my metal detector and chair, scoop and pin pointer. I saw these two girls looking at me (not in that way!) and I smiled and keep walking looking for my cousins (by the way, I have not seen them in 25+ years....so I was looking for a needle in the haystack)...well, I found them and my 1st cousin says, "Have you seen Rosie yet?" (she is one of the girls I had smiled at). She comes up and starts laughing. I'm like..."HUH?" (that's not what I really said!). She said her and her sister were laughing, wondering why I was wearing pants and a shirt on the beach carrying a metal detector! I told her, "See, you got to be careful what you say, you never know if you are related or not!" LMAO....I haven't seen Rosie since she was like 4, I use to babysit her.
greydigger said:
Thanks Annmarie,
That helped.
Does it go uphill also?
Barbara Bush was born with my last name.
Does that make her my aunt many times removed? or my cousin. LOL
Is age a factor?
Your most welcomed....well, just cause her maiden name is the same as your surname....does not necessarily make you related. But if she is, then most likely you would be like a cousin so many times removed to her. Now, it all depends how she falls into your family tree...so you'll have to do some research to see where your families connect. Age isn't really a factor....as I said, it just depends where she falls into your family tree....but I would suspect a cousin of sort vs an aunt of sort.
(glad you understood!). It is hard to make a diagram on here...as you can see by my post after that LOL
