Question about Family Tree
Workout4Health
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Today I learned about second cousin once removed. It’s confusing but I understand it somewhat. Is there any better name for such a relative? That doesn’t even sound like a proper term. There has to be a nick name instead of saying my cousin once removed.
Also.... if my great great grandparents are his great grandparents then is he my 3rd cousin while I’m his second cousin?
It gets quite confusing I must say.
Also.... if my great great grandparents are his great grandparents then is he my 3rd cousin while I’m his second cousin?
It gets quite confusing I must say.
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Anything outside of Mum dad brother sister aunt uncle cousin grand parent/child or child just seems pointless and irrelevant.
I have people tell me every now and then so and so is your great aunt or second cousin or something even more distant and all I can think is, so what? They are essentially a complete stranger to me, no more related to me as the checkout chick at a super market or a random on the street.1 -
I would just call them a cousin and not worry about how removed they are unless you want to marry them or something.3
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Somehow related.
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Are they short or tall ?2
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I'd just call mine cousins too0
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Workout4Health wrote: »Anything outside of Mum dad brother sister aunt uncle cousin grand parent/child or child just seems pointless and irrelevant.
I have people tell me every now and then so and so is your great aunt or second cousin or something even more distant and all I can think is, so what? They are essentially a complete stranger to me, no more related to me as the checkout chick at a super market or a random on the street.
Oh so you're one of those people. No interest in your ancestry.
Ancestry seems vastly different to finding out your 3rd cousin graduated from high school or your aunts sister in laws nephew had a child.
I was talking about living relatives.
Even with ancestry, would you not me more concerned with your grandparents and great grandparents etc rather than your great grandparents 2nd cousin? Direct connections rather than connections diluted by marriage and distance.1 -
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Workout4Health wrote: »Riffraft1960 wrote: »
Thanks. I do understand this somewhat. But what I'm asking is, is their a better name than second cousin first removed? Don't they have more simpler names?
Simply, no they don't
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Riffraft1960 wrote: »Workout4Health wrote: »Riffraft1960 wrote: »
Thanks. I do understand this somewhat. But what I'm asking is, is their a better name than second cousin first removed? Don't they have more simpler names?
Simply, no they don't
I think because it is not a common term there isn’t a simplier term.
And for those where this is common, sounds like they just say cousin to indicate some sort of connection.0 -
Used to have a second cousin thrice removed who said we were "over the hill cousins". There is a small mountain range between their families and ours.0
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I just call them cousins or by their name. Sometimes it has to be Cousin Donna (or whatever name) because that line of the family really liked the name Donna or by nicknames which are even more related (Bubs, Bubby, and Bub [father, son, grandson] since that side of the family has no imagination).0
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Workout4Health wrote: »
Well, I wouldn't because I am married already. I am the youngest of my generation and the removed cousins that I know of are not really in my age bracket that I would be okay with. I know pretty much all of my family tree after my ancestors arrived in my country. I don't know much about the family they left behind.
As there are laws about cousins and cousins once removed marrying I assume at least some people in history were doing it and marriage and inheritance are probably why anyone ever kept track of how far removed their cousin was.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin_marriage0 -
Workout4Health wrote: »Workout4Health wrote: »Anything outside of Mum dad brother sister aunt uncle cousin grand parent/child or child just seems pointless and irrelevant.
I have people tell me every now and then so and so is your great aunt or second cousin or something even more distant and all I can think is, so what? They are essentially a complete stranger to me, no more related to me as the checkout chick at a super market or a random on the street.
Oh so you're one of those people. No interest in your ancestry.
Ancestry seems vastly different to finding out your 3rd cousin graduated from high school or your aunts sister in laws nephew had a child.
I was talking about living relatives.
Even with ancestry, would you not me more concerned with your grandparents and great grandparents etc rather than your great grandparents 2nd cousin? Direct connections rather than connections diluted by marriage and distance.
Right, living relatives is even more relevant than ancestry.. I'm not talking about connections by marriage. But why limit yourself to only your grandparents and cousin? I mean not everyone's grandparents are alive. Sometimes you have to appreciate everything you can find.
Yeah and they are called friends. If they aren’t directly related as in cousin, aunt, grandparents etc and you are close, for me that is because you are friends, not because you are distantly related.
So no need to worry about 2nd cousin twice removed labels, they are simply friends.1 -
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Workout4Health wrote: »Anything outside of Mum dad brother sister aunt uncle cousin grand parent/child or child just seems pointless and irrelevant.
I have people tell me every now and then so and so is your great aunt or second cousin or something even more distant and all I can think is, so what? They are essentially a complete stranger to me, no more related to me as the checkout chick at a super market or a random on the street.
Oh so you're one of those people. No interest in your ancestry.
I'm one of those people. It's not that impressive to me to share some DNA with someone. If I don't know you, you're a stranger to me. No better or worse than any other human being. In fact, the person I'm closest to in the whole world isn't anywhere on my family tree. But I supposed we're all related if you go back far enough, so maybe we should just treat everyone a though they're family.
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For cousins, i don't use the term "once removed" I just simply say: my 1st cousin, and my 1st cousin's children is my 2nd cousins, and my 2nd cousin's children is my 3rd cousins and so forth.0
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I call my cousins by their names or on the phone.0
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If you’re looking for a yay or nay on smashing uglies with a 7 foot tall 3rd cousin with genetically inhanced stripper heels.... I’m going with yay. Strictly for the new thread material, cause this *kitten* is getting old.0
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