Just got off the phone with a woman who is my cousin.

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7. Late reply to this, but you are not right.

- Your Aunt's children would be your First Cousins
- Your First Cousin's Children are your Second Cousins
- Their Children are your Third Cousins...and so on

No, your first cousin's children are your first cousin's once removed.
Their children are your first cousins twice removed.

Last week I got an email from someone who turned out to be my 5th cousin. We share 4th great grandparents.

The degree of cousins is one more than the number of "greats" grandparents that is shared. If you share grandparents, you are first cousins, great grandparents, you are second cousins. "Removed" comes in when you are not on the same generation level. Go back to the nearest common relative from the person on the oldest generation level, count the number of greats in the grandparents, add one to determine the cousin level, then account for the number of levels off as removed.

The father of my fifth cousin is my 4th cousin, once removed. ( from his perspective, we share third great grandparents, 4th cousins, then because I'm not from his generation, once removed. )

His father is my 3rd cousin, twice removed.

His father, 2nd cousin, three times removed.

His father, 1st cousin, 4 times removed.

His father, becomes my 4th great uncle, the sibling of my 3rd great grandfather.


What seems weird to me is their is no "grand" in uncles/aunts. My grandparents siblings are my great aunt/uncle. No grands. Also no collective/ gender neutral name for aunts/uncles.