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A cousin once removed means they’re from the generation immediately above or below you. So your first cousin once removed would be your first cousin’s child or your parent’s first cousin.
As a working definition, unions contracted between persons biologically related as second cousins or closer (r ≥ 0.03125) are categorized as consanguineous. This arbitrary limit has been chosen because the genetic influence in marriages between couples related to a lesser degree would usually be expected to differ only slightly from that ...
A cousin is a relative that is the child of a parent's sibling; this is more specifically referred to as a first cousin. More generally, in the kinship system used in the English-speaking world, a cousin is a type of relationship in which relatives are two or more generations away from their most recent common ancestor. For this definition ...
Often, however, I do hear black folks refer to or intro someone as "My first cousin", "her third cousin", etc when that relationship is known -- but "removed cousin" is never used: a "first cousin-once-removed" is a "second cousin" and everyone gets moved back a degree accordingly, so when a "third cousin" is mentioned what is invariably meant ...
Cousins of an older generation (in other words, one's parents' first cousins), although technically first cousins once removed, are often classified with "aunts" and "uncles". Aggregate relatives [ edit ]
Cousins President Carter's great-grandfather James Thomas Gordy had a son with Esther Johnson, a black woman. Their son, Berry Gordy, was the grandfather of Motown music mogul and producer Berry ...
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1 Second Cousin / First Cousin Once Removed interchangably used? 2 comments. 2 So nephew can mean uncle? 5 comments. 3 Half-cousin's child would be a.... 2 comments.