One thing that has always confused me is how to determine relationships among cousins. I know my parent’s siblings’ children are my first cousins. That’s an easy one. But then you get into second cousins, first cousins, once removed, and second cousins, twice removed. I have always thought that my first cousin’s daughter was my second cousin, and that my mother’s first cousin’s son was my third cousin. Guess what? It turns out I was wrong. The relationships among cousins are based on a couple of factors: 1) First second, third, forth, etc. cousins are the number of generations there … Continue reading →