Show 1 X X enox X ex exa X X X ax xe X X ax X X rules that govern kinship of cousins in answering a correspondents query what relation are the dill dmit of first cobbins to each other what relation to me Is my first cou child the pathfinder magazine says fays reckoning cousin relationships la Is simple it if you start out right A cousin Is one collaterally related by descent from a common ancestor but not a brother or sister children of brothers and sisters are first cousins to one another sometimes they are called cousins german own cou cousins gins or full cousins the children of first cousins cousing are second cousins to one another children of second cousins are third cousins to one another and so on the child of ones first cousin la Is a first cousin orce once removed the grandchild of ones first cousin Is a first cousin auice removed and so on confusion sometimes arises from the custom of some people bo speak of tile the children and grandchildren of their first cousins as second anil and third cousins respect respectively hely but the practice Is only local the correct and almost universal rule fo for reckoning cousins Is as we have given it IV |