How Are We Related?
Naming Your Relationships On Your Family Tree?
COUSINS are all shown in orange.
FIRST COUSINS: Share the same grandparents
SECOND COUSINS: Share the same great-grandparents
THIRD COUSINS: Share the same great-great-grandparents
FIRST COUSINS ONCE REMOVED: Separated by one generation from a first cousin
FIRST COUSINS TWICE REMOVED: Separated by two generations from a first cousin
NON-REMOVED cousins are all on the same generational level
REMOVED cousins can be ascendant or descendant
ASCENDANT cousins are on earlier - older generational levels
DESCENDANT cousins are on later - younger generational levels
Defining Cousins By Generational Levels
A cousin is a child of one’s aunt or uncle, with your distant cousins being the descendants of your Grand Aunts and Grand Uncles.
An ascendant cousin is an earlier generation than yourself.
A descendant cousin is a later generation to you.
You may actually have multiple sets of removed cousins with the same name designation.
A 1st Cousin Once-Removed indicates a generation higher OR lower than yourself. Therefore, your descendant 1st cousin once-removed is the child of your first cousin, while your ascendant 1st cousin once-removed is the parent of your second cousin!
Tip to Remember: Removed simply means separated by a generational level, while your first/second/third cousins are all at the same generational level as you!
Of course it gets visually mind boggling with larger families when the some people have children very early in life and others much later. By generational chart, a baby can be an uncle of someone who is the grandparent or uncle of another family member.
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