Grandparents third cousins?

Question

if there were these 2 people and their grandparents were 3rd cousins, how would the 2 people be related. Like what number of cousins would they be? Would that make them 6th cousins? And how far down the line do they have to be for it to be acceptable for them to date?

Answer 1

If my mother's First Cousin is my Second Cousin... Yes, they would be your 6th cousin.

Legally, in any country who's legal code is based on English Common Law, sexual involvement with first and second order relations (brothers / sisters / parents / children / grand parents / aunts / uncles / [first] cousins) is incest. Anything beyond that is fine in the eyes of the law.

So, if you have the hots for someone you share a gene pool with whom is more that many steps removed, there should be no genetic issues, and definately no Legal issues. As for moral issues, there are none, and then you only have to deal with "squeemish" relatives.

Good Luck!

Answer 2

Either 6th Cousins or 1st Cousins 6 times removed, It depends on which system you use and I never have been able to pin down which one is correct, either way yes you can date,  any thing after 1st Cousins is regard as safe no matter what part of the world you are in.

Answer 3

If Grandparents = 3rd cousins

then Parents = 4th cousins

Young lovers = 5th cousins

http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=inter...

says that you can marry your first cousin in Canada - and in 25 of 50 states in the USA. No state or nation prohibits second, third or higher degrees of cousins marrying.

Marrying a cousin was quite common before 1880 or so, especially in sparsely populated counties or among small sects. I'd bet the Amish do it today. My Monroe County (Va/WV) ancestors did it constantly. So did my Pennsylvania "Dutch" ancestors.

"Removed" is when you go up or down generations. Your parents' cousins are yours too - same degree, once removed. Your grandparents' cousins are yours twice removed and so on.

Answer 4

I will let others sort out the cousin relationship, but 1st cousin marriages were not all that uncommon in some rural areas of Europe in the good old days.  

In fact I have some first cousin marriages w/in my own family tree.  It makes things odd when seeing the same surnames and trying to figure out the relationships.

In the U.S. at this time it appears that 1st cousin marriages are acceptable in many states.  I notice that 'double cousins' are excluded in North Carolina.  

I have one 'double cousin', but this is due to the fact that two 1st cousins married two brothers.  So, each couple were not actually relatedl, but this cousin is considered a 'double cousin' as we both are related to the same two families.  So, one of my aunts was both my aunt and my mom's first cousin.

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Some cousin facts...

26 states allow first cousin marriages; most people can marry their cousin in the US.



US prohibitions against cousin marriages predate modern genetics.

  

No European country prohibits marriage between first cousins. It is also legal throughout Canada and Mexico to marry your cousin. The U.S. is the only western country with cousin marriage restrictions.

The frequency of cousin marriages in the USA is about 1 in 1,000.

The frequency of cousin marriages in Japan is about 4 in 1,000.



It is estimated that 20 percent of all couples worldwide are first cousins. It is also estimated that 80 percent of all marriages historically have been between first cousins!  

Leviticus 18 lists all forbidden sexual relationships. Cousin relationships are not included.



God commanded many cousins to marry, including Zelophehad's 5 daughters, Eleazar's daughters, Jacob (who married both Rachel and Leah, first cousins), and Isaac and Rebekkah (first cousins once removed)  

Source:http://www.cousincouples.com/?page=facts

Each state and its legal stance on cousin marriages (see below)

http://marriage.about.com/cs/marriagelic...

Answer 5

There are two possible answers because your question isn't completely clear.

Possibility #1: If their grandparents are 3rd cousins and their parents are 4th cousins, then they're 5th cousins and it's legal in the US and Canada for them to date (4th cousins is the rule, except in Appalachia).

Contrary to other claims (I have to believe they're European because America and Canada are the same on this belief), very few places in North America allow cousins to marry unless they're past child-bearing age. In most state, it's not until a documented 4th-cousin relationship that you can legally marry. Ask Rudy Giuliani...it's the reason his first marriage was legally annulled. They didn't know they were only 2nd cousins.

Possibility #2: Grandparent of 1 person is the 3rd cousin of the other person. Then they're 3rd cousins twice removed and some states will allow them to marry, but others won't.