If two people share the same grt-grt grandparents, but descend from separate progeny, how are they related?

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Rephrased: If you share the same set of great-great grandparents with someone, but each of you are descended from different children of those great-great grandparents, are you related and if so, how? I would think we would be related, but what would be the classification? Cousins? Fourth cousins? Cousins four times removed? What if one person is four times removed and one is five times removed? I would think there is some relationship, but it befuddles me what that would be, exactly. Hope someone out there knows!

Answer 1

children of the same grandparents are cousins, but as you move up a generation it becomes removed so for people who share a set of great great grandparents they are:

first cousins twice removed

*EDIT*
OK I looked it up and ted was right, all along I've had it backwards I thought that my dad's cousin was my second cousin but he is not, he is my cousin once removed.

If you want this site has some good info http://www.genealogy.com/16_cousn.html
and it says exactly what you wanted.

"Cousin (a.k.a "first cousin")
Your first cousins are the people in your family who have two of the same grandparents as you. In other words, they are the children of your aunts and uncles.

Second Cousin
Your second cousins are the people in your family who have the same great-grandparents as you., but not the same grandparents.

Third, Fourth, and Fifth Cousins
Your third cousins have the same great-great-grandparents, fourth cousins have the same great-great-great-grandparents, and so on."

Answer 2

Children of grandparents are 1st cousins.
Children of G grandparents are 2nd cousins.
Children of GG grandparents are 3rd cousins.
Children of GGG grandparents are 4th cousins.

Removed comes in when you talk about your parents' cousins or your cousins' children.

Your parents' cousins are yours too, only once removed; 1C1R, 2C2R, 3C3R etc.

Your grandparents' cousins are yours, but twice removed.
And so on.

Your first cousin's children are your 1C1R. Their grandchildren would be your 1C2R, and so on.

I know some people who are half first cousins 8 times reomoved from President John Adams. Most people don't keep track of anyone beyond 2nd cousin or once removed.

Answer 3

i do no longer think of so. as an occasion an extremely common surname for Vietnamese human beings is Tran (observed heavily by utilising Nguyen). i do no longer belive that each and each single Tran is on the subject of another. bear in mind that surnames have not been used for *that* long, and its additionally available that human beings have replaced their surname, my kin dropped the 'saint' from the front the front of their surname, which made it alot extra common. i think of if 2 those with an extremely uncommon surname meet then probability are they're distant kinfolk, yet alot of it relies upon on how common the surname is. a lot of persons of an analogous ethnicity proportion a typical surname (issues like 'Taylor' 'Miller' 'Smith' 'Johnson' that could have been taken from their profession or mothers and dads call.

Answer 4

We still have the bloodline in our veins,but a lot of people still meet and get married being distant cousins.

Answer 5

Have a look at the link below,
http://genealogy.about.com/library/nrelationshipchart.htm

Answer 6

They are distant cousins (first cousins, thrice removed, I think). (on second thought...what Ted said)

EDIT: Thanks for clarifying that Ted!