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Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 7,819 Send Message	InspectorGreenPen	Report	6 Sep 2015 18:05
Member Since: March 2003 Posts: 7,819 Send Message	Absolutely. Count the number of g's to your common ancestor Grand parent = 1 'g' Great Grandparent = 2 'g's' etc This gives you the degree of cousins. So if your common ancestor is your Great, Great, Great Grandfather you are 4th cousins. Removed comes into place if the no of 'g's' for each of you is different. In that case the smallest gives you the degree of cousins, the difference between the two, the no of generations removed. So if the common ancestor is your Great Grandfather (2 g's') but the other relatives Great Great Grandfather (3 g's') then your relationship is 2nd Cousin Once removed.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23,482 Send Message	MargaretM	Report	6 Sep 2015 14:34
	I find it so easy to calculate without a relationship chart. You share a gt. grandparent. Your grandparents are siblings. Your parents are 1st. cousins. You are 2nd. cousins. Now if you each had a child those children would be 3rd. cousins. Contrary to what your opening post says it is not confusing at all.
	Researching: Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 18,042 Send Message	MarieCeleste	Report	5 Sep 2015 19:10
Member Since: July 2008 Posts: 18,042 Send Message	Definitely second cousins. I find this chart useful: http://genealogy.about.com/library/nrelationshipchart.htm
Member Since: August 2006 Posts: 6,427 Send Message	°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o°	Report	4 Sep 2015 17:48
	If you share grandparents then you're first cousins, great grandparents it's second cousins and so on. The removed comes in if your grandparents are the other person's great grandparents.
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23,482 Send Message	MargaretM	Report	4 Sep 2015 14:54
	Well, I don't know who told you that but I stick by my guns. You and your gt. grandfather's son's grandaughter are 2nd. cousins.
	Researching: Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)
Member Since: December 2002 Posts: 942 Send Message	joysie4	Report	4 Sep 2015 14:41
	I have just been told my great grandfathers son my great uncle as claire stated grandaughter is my 3rd cousin
	Researching: Mc Dowells Portsmouth .& Devon & .Ireland .Scotland Garthland Macdowalls Dumbrells Lewis /South Malling Sussex
Member Since: December 2002 Posts: 942 Send Message	joysie4	Report	29 Aug 2015 15:33
	Thank you thats worth knowing
	Researching: Mc Dowells Portsmouth .& Devon & .Ireland .Scotland Garthland Macdowalls Dumbrells Lewis /South Malling Sussex
Member Since: February 2007 Posts: 73,136 Send Message	AnnCardiff	Report	29 Aug 2015 14:20
	Relationship calculator: How am I related to...? - Family Tree family-tree.co.uk › Blog We’re all familiar with the relationship between our direct line ancestor and ourselves, but the other branches can get a little tangled, and it’s a common query ... there's a chart on this site which you can download
	Researching: Breakspears of Berkshire and Cardiff, Williams and Harman of Whitchurch, Melingriffith &Tongwynlais,Glamorgan WE HAVE NO CONNECTION Do not share your tree with me
Member Since: December 2002 Posts: 942 Send Message	joysie4	Report	29 Aug 2015 13:15
	Claire Chris & Margie Thank you very much for that advice joyce m :-)
	Researching: Mc Dowells Portsmouth .& Devon & .Ireland .Scotland Garthland Macdowalls Dumbrells Lewis /South Malling Sussex
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 23,482 Send Message	MargaretM	Report	29 Aug 2015 10:59
	I agree with Chris that you are 2nd. cousins with this person that you have just found. Your parents were 1st. cousins and your grandfathers were siblings.
	Researching: Great grandmother Dorothy Bean nee Abbott (1858-1908)
Member Since: April 2004 Posts: 2,865 Send Message	Chris in Sussex	Report	29 Aug 2015 10:48
	You share a Great Grandfather so that would make you second cousins. That is if I understood you correctly :-) Chris
	Researching: Avatar...My darling Dad. 1931-2019 'Take nothing on its looks, take everything on evidence. There is no better rule' Charles Dickens, Great Expectations. 'A brickwall is a problem that you haven't solved yet' Dave Annal http://media.nationalarchives.gov.uk/index.php/brick-walls-and-lost-ancestors/
Member Since: August 2006 Posts: 6,427 Send Message	°o.OOº°‘¨Claire in Wales¨‘°ºOO.o°	Report	29 Aug 2015 10:11
	Your great grandfather's son is your great uncle in the UK If you've found that he's grandfather to this other person then that's exactly what he is
Member Since: December 2002 Posts: 942 Send Message	joysie4	Report	29 Aug 2015 09:55
	My great grandfathers son is a grand father to another person I have just found what is he to me and to her confusing isnt it :-S
	Researching: Mc Dowells Portsmouth .& Devon & .Ireland .Scotland Garthland Macdowalls Dumbrells Lewis /South Malling Sussex

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