How does having a cousin twice removed work?

Question

i don't understand the 'removed' part of it.

Answer 1

It means your 2nd cousin. Basically your first cousin's offspring.

Answer 2

Let's say your Dad's Father (your grandfather) had a cousin named Fred.

Fred would be your Dad's cousin once removed.

Fred would be your cousin twice removed.

Another way to put it:

My first cousin's child and I are first cousins once removed (one generation difference between us).

But my first cousin's grandchild and I are first cousins twice removed (two generations difference between us)

Answer 3

"Removed" means there is a generation difference between you and the person you are cousins to.

First, you have to determine the COMMON ancestor you and that person have in common.  How many generations are YOU from that ancestor.  How many generations is the cousin from that ancestor.  If you both are grandkids of that ancestor, you are first cousins.  If you are the grandchild but the cousin is a great-grandchild of that ancestor, then you have a generation difference, so you would be first cousin once removed.  If one of you is the grandchild but the other is the great-great-grandchild of the common ancestor, then there are 2 generations different and you are first cousins 2x removed.

It has NOTHING to do with divorces, as one idiot mentioned.

Answer 4

A first cousin twice removed would be the first cousin of one of your grandparents.  The child of that person is your first cousin once removed, and the grandchild is your second cousin (no removes).

Also, the grandchild of one of your first cousins is your first cousin twice removed.

In the Nixon Administration there was a high ranking CIA official named Sam Adams who was the fourth cousin seven times removed of the Sam Adams of Revolutionary War fame.

Answer 5

you have a cousin and the aunt and uncle divorce, the uncle then finds a new wife and divorces again and then again.

Answer 6

Here is a great article about this subject:

http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/ar...

Here is a online program just for you:

http://www.searchforancestors.com/utilit...