Would I be Related? or Not?

Question

Okay so my cousin is having a baby would i be at all related to it or not?

-Thanks ahead of time for the answers!

Answer 1

If the cousin is your first cousin (and most of the time, "cousin" means first cousin"), then the baby will be your first cousin, once removed.

When you have a child in 10 years, the baby, now a frolicking ten-year old with a spray of freckles across her nose, sandy-blonde hair and an impish grin, will be your child's second cousin.

If the cousin in question is your 2nd, 3rd, etc, the baby will be the same degree (2nd, 3rd, etc.) but, again, once removed.

"Removed" means removed in generations. Your parents are one generation "up" from you, your grandparents two generations, and so on.

All of your parents' cousins, of whatever degree, are yours in the same degree, but once removed. Your grandparents' cousins are yours twice removed. So, your GREAT-grandmother's fourth cousin is your 4th too, but three times removed.

Children of first cousins are second cousins. Children of second cousins are third cousins and so on.

Most people don't know more than a few cousins who are further out than second cousins or twice removed.

There are exceptions. I know a family who are half first cousins to president John Adams - seven times removed.

Who is removed and who is second is the most confusing thing about cousins.

If you'd like a four-color chart,

http://www.tedpack.org/cousins.html

has one. (Counting black and white as two colors.)

Answer 2

Siblings share the same parents.

1st cousins share same grandparents.

2nd cousins share same GREAT GRANDPARENTS

Your first cousin's child is a first cousin once removed.

The phrase "liars" does not belong anywhere in yahoo answers.

Answer 3

of course they would be your first cousin once removed

Answer 4

They are actually called your second cousin.

Dont listen to the other liars.  About first cousin once removed

My cousin is into family trees and all of that stuff (he studies it) and he told me himself.

Answer 5

That baby would be your first cousin once removed, not your second cousin as some people will try to tell you.

Edit: See the relationship chart.  The removes come in when you are in a different generation coming down from a common ancestor.  As long as your are in the same generation coming down from a common ancestor there are no removes as indicated by Wendy.

http://genealogy.about.com/library/nrela...