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From: Elizabeth Churchett <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Relationship Report
Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2004 16:24:39 -0600
References: <001101c3d207$14d89c50$220110ac@JimsLaptop> <000901c3d246$60b0a980$f6df403e@ART>


wrote:

>I ran the Kinship Report and I find what appears to be an oddity.
>
>On one page, there are 48 people listed under the heading "1st Cousins 1
>Time Removed". These are the children of my 1st Cousins - no problem with
>that and they are all correct.
>
>However, on a later page, there is another group of people under the heading
>"1st Cousins 1 Time Removed". Checking these people, I find they are the
>children of my Grandparents siblings, not the offspring of the children of
>my parent's siblings.
>
>The parents of this second group of "1st Cousins 1 Time Removed" are not
>described as 1st Cousins but as Granduncles/aunts.
>
>This is rather confusing or is there something about "Cousins" I don't
>understand. Is there no other way to describe the relationship between
>myself and my Grandparent's Nieces and Nephews?
>
>Regards
>Art Eccles
>
>
Art,

I asked the same question myself about a year ago. Joe M. gave the
following answer, stated better than I could do:

"Because you can have two 'types' of first cousins once removed. Let's
call them, say, 'up' and 'down'. The 'down' first cousins once removed
are your first cousin's children; the 'up' first cousins once removed
are your parents' first cousins."

Does that help?

--Elizabeth


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