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PG Tips? Lipton? Ah well - samovar best friends are английский.

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What kind of cousins are we? I'm meeting up with some cousins next month and we share great grand parents. Our grandmothers were sisters. I can never keep track.

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What kind of cousins are we? I'm meeting up with some cousins next month and we share great grand parents. Our grandmothers were sisters. I can never keep track.

Pretty sure that's first cousins, once removed. First cousins are the children of siblings, then you start counting removes for every generation. Your children and theirs would be first cousins, twice removed.

[Someone]

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What kind of cousins are we? I'm meeting up with some cousins next month and we share great grand parents. Our grandmothers were sisters. I can never keep track.

Second cousins. Share grandparents, you are first cousins. Share both sets of grandparents (rare), you are double cousins. #genealogy

ETA: Sorry to contradict you, SmartAleq, but you are wrong.

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Second cousins. Share grandparents, you are first cousins. Share both sets of grandparents (rare), you are double cousins. #genealogy

ETA: Sorry to contradict you, SmartAleq, but you are wrong.

How am I wrong when I specifically stated that they're first cousins? My mother had a brother, his daughter and I are first cousins. My children and hers are first cousins, once removed. THEIR children are first cousins, twice removed. It's a generational thing, the removes.

There's a handy-dandy chart on this page.

[Someone]

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How am I wrong when I specifically stated that they're first cousins? My mother had a brother, his daughter and I are first cousins. My children and hers are first cousins, once removed. THEIR children are first cousins, twice removed. It's a generational thing, the removes.

There's a handy-dandy chart on this page.

Thanks, according to the chart (and Sour Grapes) we are second cousins, sharing great grand parents.
We use Red Rose for both hot and iced tea (handed down from the grandmother mentioned above). Watch out for the small boxes of teabags, they have paper envelopes and the cursed paper tabs.

[Someone]

Originally Posted by Someone

How am I wrong when I specifically stated that they're first cousins? My mother had a brother, his daughter and I are first cousins. My children and hers are first cousins, once removed. THEIR children are first cousins, twice removed. It's a generational thing, the removes.

There's a handy-dandy chart on this page.

The chart is indeed handy-dandy and quite correct. Either you're reading it wrong, or you or I are arguing from different premises. My cousin's child (call him Barry) is my first cousin once removed. His son (call him Leo) is my first cousin twice removed. My son (call him Tom) is Barry's second cousin and Leo's second cousin once removed. Tom's son, when he has one, will be Leo's third cousin. Your first cousin's children are your first cousins once removed, and they and your own children are second cousins - all of which is exactly as the chart says.

[Someone]

What if 2 brothers married 2 sisters, would the kids be multi-cousins?

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What if 2 brothers married 2 sisters, would the kids be multi-cousins?

Never thought of that one, although it happened in my family. My grandmother (mentioned above) had two other sisters that married two brothers. To further comlicate matters, my mother married a man (my dad) with the same last name as the brothers.

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What if 2 brothers married 2 sisters, would the kids be multi-cousins?

Double first cousins. Happened alot in the sourh. I have have some on both sides of my family. Me and my sister have been trying for years to find a way 1 double (maternal) cousin and 1 double (paternal) cousin could meet and marry. We want to see what kind of gargoyle the baby would be. It simply won't be normal. At. All.

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PG Tips? Lipton? Ah well - samovar best friends are английский.

::kabongs Comrade Grapes with her tiny balalaika::

(actually, that's a good one. I'm mad that I didn't think of it)