Show T Rules That Govern Kinship of Cousins I in answering a correspondents correspondent's query What hat relation are the children chil chil- to each other dr dren of ot first cousins What relation z to m me rue Is my lily first cousins cousin's cou con Pathfinder Magazine sins sin's child the tile sa says s 's relationships Is cousin n Reckoning simple If It you start out right A cousin cousin cou cou- sin Is one collaterally related by descent de de- de- de from a common ancestor but not nota scent brother or sister Children of ot brothers brothers broth broth- a to toone toone toone first cousins ers em and sisters nr ar are sometimes they are one another called german own cousins or full cousins The hc children of ot first cousins cou con one another another an an- sins are second cousins cousins' to other children of ot second cousins arEs are another and so soon third cousins to one ones one's first cousin Is Isa Isa child of ot The on the first cousin once removed remo the a grandchild of ones cues first cousin Is a 8 first cousin twice removed and arid so on Confusion sometimes arises s from the custom of some people who speak of ot the children and grandchildren of ot their first cousins as second and third cousins respectively hely but the lie practice is Ii only local The correct correct and almost universal rule for reckoning cousins Is as nS we have given ghen It It |