{"id":4730,"date":"2019-01-10T20:41:21","date_gmt":"2019-01-11T02:41:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enchantedfamily.com\/blog\/how-am-i-related-cousin-relationships-explained\/"},"modified":"2019-01-10T20:41:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-11T02:41:21","slug":"how-am-i-related-cousin-relationships-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ladykathleen.com\/family\/how-am-i-related-cousin-relationships-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"How Am I Related? Cousin Relationships Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"heading by-line-top hide-desktop\">If someone walked up to you and said &#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m your third cousin, once removed,&#8221; would you know what they meant? Most of us don&#8217;t think about our relationships in such exact terms (&#8220;cousin&#8221; seems good enough), so many of us aren&#8217;t very familiar with what these words mean. When , however, it can be important to understand the various types of cousin relationships.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h3>What is a Second Cousin?<\/h3>\n<p>The of cousin relationship is based on the most recent direct ancestor that two people have in common.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>First cousins<\/strong>&nbsp;are the people in your family who have two of the same grandparents as you.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Second cousins<\/strong>&nbsp;have the same great-grandparents as you, but not the same grandparents.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Third cousins<\/strong>&nbsp;have in common two great-great-grandparents and their ancestors.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What Does &#8220;Once Removed&#8221; Mean?<\/h3>\n<p>When cousins by a different number of generations they are called \u201cremoved.\u201d<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Once removed<\/strong>&nbsp;means there is a difference of one generation. Your mother&#8217;s first cousin would be your first cousin, once removed. She is one generation younger than your grandparents and you are two generations younger than your grandparents.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul class=\"cb-split\">\n<li><strong>Twice removed<\/strong>&nbsp;means that there is a two-generation difference. Your grandmother&#8217;s first cousin would be your first cousin, twice removed because you are separated by two generations.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>What is a Double Cousin?<\/h3>\n<p>Just to complicate matters, there are also many cases of&nbsp;<strong>double cousins<\/strong>. This situation usually occurs when two or more siblings from one family marry two or more siblings from another family. The resulting children, grandchildren, etc.&nbsp; are double cousins, because they share all four grandparents (or great-grandparents) in common. These types of relationships can be difficult to determine and it is usually easiest to one at a time (through one family line and then through the other line).&nbsp;\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If someone walked up to you and said &#8220;Hi, I&#8217;m your third cousin, once removed,&#8221; would you know what they meant? Most of us don&#8217;t think about our relationships in such exact terms (&#8220;cousin&#8221; seems good enough), so many of us aren&#8217;t very familiar with what these words mean. 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