Ancestry/Genealogy

Thor_MN

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9. Great and Grand with aunts and uncles is the same thing.

Mon May 15, 2017, 07:31 PM

May 2017

Great aunt/uncle is a thing, it is what Family Tree Maker software uses.

Holy Cross Cemetery may prefer Grand aunt/uncle, but they are not really the authority on heredity by any measure.

My mother had a half aunt, she died childless, but when I "created" a grandchild for her, FTM said that would be my half second cousin.

You are 1st cousins if your closest common relatives are grandparents. You are 2nd cousins if your closest common relatives are great grand parents. If you share only one great grandparent, which would be the case in the example you cite, it is half second cousin. Your mother is a half cousin with one of the parents of the person you are talking about.

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Just got off the phone with a woman who is my cousin. [View all] no_hypocrisy Oct 2015 OP

I believe that makes you 2nd Cousins. CanonRay Oct 2015 #1

If you're both the children of two first cousins, no_hypocrisy Oct 2015 #2

Thanks for that link.... Little Star Oct 2015 #3

Another way to think of it . . . markpkessinger Oct 2015 #4

I found this information about how many "cousins" you may have interesting hillbillytom Dec 2015 #5

First Cousins, Once Removed Algernon Moncrieff Oct 2016 #6

Late reply to this, but you are not right. Thor_MN Jan 2017 #7

It is a "grand" aunt, not a "great" aunt CountAllVotes May 2017 #8

Great and Grand with aunts and uncles is the same thing. Thor_MN May 2017 #9