What does it mean when someone ask is this your 1st cousin, 2nd cousin 75th cousin and etc?

Question

Could you give me some examples so that I understand

Answer 1

A first cousin is the son or daughter of your mother or father's sister or brother. That is, one generation up on the branch, you have siblings. Or two generations up, you share the same grandparents on one side.

A second cousin shares the same great-grandparents on one side, a third shares great-great-grandparents, and so on.

However, it gets way more complicated than that when you add half-siblings, people who have only one parent in common, such as the son of a father's first marriage and a son if his second marriage are half-brothers.

Also, there are cousins "by remove." If you have a first cousin who has a child, that child is not your nephew, but your second cousin once removed. That is, he's your child's second cousin when you have a child. He's removed one generation from that same-generation effect. And since sometimes people have aunts and uncles who are enough older or younger than themselves as to be more like a different generation (or even siblings old enough to be parents, or young enough to be offspring), it gets seriously complicated in some families.

Have I made it any clearer?

Answer 2

OK. First cousins share a grandparent. Second cousins share a great-grandparent. Third cousins share a great-great-grandparent. And so on. The "first", "second", and "third" mean how many generations back you need to go to find a common ancestor. Your child and your cousin's child are second cousins, because they are the same generation and share a great-grandparent (your grandparent).

The child of your first cousin (let's call the child Billy) is your first cousin "once removed". (The "removed" means how many generations away from you they are.) The nearest common ancestor between you and Billy is your grandparents. But because they are Billy's great-grandparents, you have to add the "once removed" in there to show that he's not the same generation as you.

It's kind of hard to explain without drawing a picture, but if you draw your family tree and then count the generations, you will arrive at the right numbers.

Answer 3

You and your brother are siblings. Children of your parents' siblings are first cousins. Grandchildren of your grandparents' siblings are second cousins. Children of your grandparents' siblings are first cousins once removed. Generalization: count down the descent tree from the common ancestor(s); each step down on both branches represents an increased level of cousinship. When the end person on one branch is reached, continue down the other branch; each level is a level of removal.

Answer 4

1st cousins have the same grandparents.2nd cousins are the grandparents brothers or sisters children, and so on. Hope I got that right.

Answer 5

people are pent up on labels
a cousin of my mom is a second cousin to me
there chidren are third cousins
there children are fourth cousins
my uncle has a kid-that is my cousin-
my cousins kids and my kids are second cousins to each other- they may have kids together without to much fear of inbreeding but it is imbreeding so birth defects can occur. that is why we keep track-to avoid birth defects. now i am confused-

Answer 6

Ok my cousins kids would be my second cousins and their kids would be my third cousins and so on.

Answer 7

your cousins child is your second cousin, your cousins childs child is your third cousin and so on