COUSIN RELATIONSHIPS AND FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS GUIDE and CHART

complied by P.  Beauregard ©1992-2010, All Rights Reserved

                                                                                                                  5TH.GT.GRANDPARENT

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                                                                    GT.GT.GT.GRANDPARENTS                      4th GT.UNCLE OR AUNT

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                                  GT.GT.GRANDPARENTS                                               GT.GT.GT.UNCLE OR AUNT

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GT.GRANDPARENTS                                    GT.GT.UNCLE OR AUNT                                        |

     |                                  \                                                                  \                                              1st COUSIN-

     |                                      \                                                                  \                                    TRICE REMOVED

GRANDPARENTS             GT.UNCLE OR AUNT                             1st    COUSIN-                         \          

      |                    \                                           \                                       TWICE REMOVED                       \

      |                        \                                           \                                                                 \                         2C2R

PARENTS              UNCLE-AUNT                1st COUISN-                                              2nd COUSIN-
     |        \                               \                    ONCE REMOVED=(1C©1R)                        ONCE REMOVED

     |            \                               \                                           \                                                           |

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YOU*          BROS.-SIS.            1st COUSIN -                      2nd COUSIN -                     3rd COUSIN -  

    |                        \                    ZERO REMOVED              ZERO REMOVED               ZERO REMOVED

    |                           |                              |                                             |                                              | 

SON OR           NIECE/              1st COUSIN-                        2nd COUSIN-                     3rd COUSIN-

DAUGHTER   NEPHEW      ONCE REMOVED              ONCE REMOVED                ONCE REMOVED    

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GRAND            GRAND           1st COUSIN-                          2nd COUSIN-                      3rd COUSIN-

CHILD              NIECE/         TWICE REMOVED             TWICE REMOVED          TWICE REMOVED

    |                    NEPHEW                     |                                              |                                           |

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GREAT           GREAT             1st COUSIN-                            2nd COUSIN-                     3rd COUSIN-

GRAND         GRAND         TRICE REMOVED                 TRICE REMOVED           TRICE REMOVED

CHILD            NIECE/

    |                  NEPHEW

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GT.GT.GRAND.CHILDREN

A step relationship is when you are related to someone and their descendants by marriage or illegitimacy. For example, if your grandfather was married a second time after your grandmother died or was divorced, any children or cousins from this second marriage would be step uncles, step aunts, step 1st cousins(zero removed) etc.

Levels removed is calculated as the number of generations above or below your level in the chart. Your level consists of you, uncles, aunts, and 1st, 2nd, and 3rd cousins-all zero removed, even if a step relation.

If someone is your 1st cousin, then their children are your 1st cousins-- x removed.  If two people are 1st cousins relative to you, the children of each of your 1st cousins will be second cousins to each other. Children of 2nd cousins, are 3rd cousins to each other.

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