when someone is explaining there family tree?

Question

and they say "once removed" or "twice removed" what does this mean?

Answer 1

in genealogy the term "removed" indicates that you and the person involved are related through a person who is a different generation for both of you. For example, a cousin once removed would be a person who is a cousin of a parent of yours - the common ancestor is your great grandparent who is also the grandparent of the other person. Twice removed simply means that the common ancestor is two generations different for the two people in question.

Answer 2

The once and twice removed usually refers to cousins. The children of your cousin are you cousins once removed. The children of your cousins once removed are your cousins twice removed. Coming from another direction, your parents' cousins are your cousins once removed and their children are your second cousins.
By the way, all cousins, except the children of your parents' brothers and sisters are "kissing cousins." Not that you can not kiss your first cousins, but in some states you can be arrested for doing more than that.

Answer 3

If two people are in the same generation, you compute "cousin" relationships by how many generations back you have a common ancestor. If you have a common grandparent, you are first cousins. If you have common greatgrandparent, you are second cousins.

Removed means that you aren't in the same generation. So if your great-grandparent is the other person's great-great-grandparent, you are second cousins, once removed, because you are one generation apart.

Answer 4

When cousins have children, you add a degree. When you go up or down a generation level, you add a removed.
Children of first cousins are second cousins.
Children of second cousins are third cousins.
Children of third cousins are fourth cousins, ...
Your father's first cousin is your first cousin once removed.
Your grandfather's first cousin is your first cousin twice removed.
Your great-grandfather's first cousin is your first cousin three times removed, ...
You can keep adding removeds and degrees:
Your grandfather's second cousin is your second cousin twice removed.
Your great-grandfather's third cousin is your third cousin three times removed ...

Answer 5

England has no restore kin royal tree. examine Rome and France reason this 2 u . s . a . is the resource of royalty because Egyptians to Ceazar. Tudor grow to be no longer no longer English they are Roman Spanish & Danish in foundation. England is often under the guideline of foreigners.

Answer 6

Every time a blood relative marries and produces an extended family they are still related to you but they are removed.

For example: your fathers sister marries a man who has a sibling. your father is related to that sibling but is once removed by marriage.

Hope this helps more than confuses.

Answer 7

Ok, let me give and example. Your mother's sister's kids are your first cousins, right? Then your kids and your first cousin's kids are second cousins. Your kids and your first cousin are first cousins once removed. Your grandkids and your first cousin are first cousins twice removed. I hope it makes sense

Answer 8

You have great great grandparents
Children: Curly - Larry - Moe
Children: Winking - Blinking - Nod (1st cousins)
Children: Jane - Jack - Mary (2nd cousins)
Children: Sue - Ann - John (3rd cousins)

Answer 9

Once removed is first cousins, twice removed is second cousins, and so on...

The term cousin commonly refers to the child of one's aunt or uncle (i.e. the child of one's parent's sibling), but the relationship between that person and oneself is more precisely termed "first cousin".

"Cousins", more specifically, are any relatives of oneself that are neither one's siblings, nor one's siblings' direct descendants, nor one's direct ancestors, nor one's direct descendants; neither are one's "cousins" any siblings of one's direct ancestors. In common and familiar terms then, never are one's brothers and sisters, nor one's parents nor grandparents; nor one's children or grandchildren; nor one's aunts nor uncles, grand-aunts nor grand-uncles, nephews nor nieces, nor grand-nephews nor grand-nieces of any degree, one's cousin by that relationship.

Ordinal numbers (first, second, third, etc) are used to quantify in which preceding generation the common direct ancestor of the two specific individuals is located. And because generations determine one's first, second, third, fourth, etc, cousinship, those cousins are always of the same generation as oneself. (Think of a symmetrical pyramid with one's own and one's cousin's generation forming the base, then the larger the ordinal number of the cousinship is, i.e. first, second, third, etc., the higher the pyramid will be, always culminating with the two cousins' ancestor in common at the peak of this pyramid. First cousins form a pyramid with their shared grandparent at the peak, second cousins form a pyramid with their shared great-grandparent at the peak, third cousins form a pyramid with their shared great-great-grandparent at the peak, and so forth.)

Answer 10

It means one step further from your immediate family. Say a cousin of your brother-in-law will be a cousin once removed. i think. Anybody out there please correct me if I'm wrong!!!