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Show -:-xxx-:-xxzx-:-s-:-xx-: Rules That Govern Kinship of Cousins I iu answering a correspondent's query, "What relation are the ehil-divn ehil-divn of first couf-ins to each other? What relation to me is my first cousin's cou-sin's child?" the Pathfinder Magazine says : "Reckoning cousin relationships Is simple if you start out right. A cousin cou-sin is one collaterally related by descent de-scent from a common ancestor, but not a brother or sister. Children of brothers broth-ers and sisters are first cousins to one another: sometimes they are called cousins-german, own cousins, or full cousins. The children of first cousins cou-sins are 'second cousins' to one another; an-other; children of second cousins are third cousins to one another, and so on. The child of one's first cousin Is a first cousin or.ee removed ; the grandchild of one's first cousin Is a first cousin twice removed, and so on. Confusion sometimes arises from the custom of some people w ho speuk of j 'the children and grandchildren of their first cousins as second and third cousins, respectively, but the practice is only local. The correct and almost universal rule for reckoning cousins is as we have given it." |