EXPLANATION ABOUT RELATIONSHIPS:
    Your uncle is the brother of your father or mother.
    Your aunt is the sister of your father or mother.
    Your great uncle (or grand uncle) is the brother of your grandfather or
    grandmother.
    Your great aunt (or grand aunt) is the sister of your grandfather or
    grandmother.
    Your great-great uncle is the brother of your great-grandfather or great-
    grandmother.
    Your great-great aunt is the sister of your great-grandfather or great-
    grandmother.
    Your first cousin is the child of your aunt or uncle.
    Your second cousin is the grandchild of your great aunt or great uncle.
    (If two people are first cousins, the children of each of the people will
    be second cousins.)
    Your third cousin is the great-grandchild of your great-great uncle or
    great-great aunt. (Children of second cousins, are third cousins to each
    other.)
    Your first cousin, once removed, is the child of your first cousin or is
    the child of your great uncle or great aunt. (See also REMOVED COUSINS)
    If someone is your first cousin, then his or her child is your first
    cousin once removed. (Once removed means one generation level different
    from you.)  All your regular cousins (first, second, etc.) are at the
    same generation level as yourself.  Those at different levels are
    "removed."  If someone is YOUR first cousin once removed, then you are
    HIS or HER first cousin once removed also.  Your second cousin once
    removed is the child of your second cousin.  Your first cousin twice
    removed is the child of your first cousin once removed (i.e. the
    grandchild of your first cousin).  Your second cousin twice removed is
    the child of your second cousin once removed (i.e. the grandchild of your
    second cousin).
    REMOVED COUSINS: If two people are some type of cousins, but they are at
    different generation levels, then here is the way to compute their
    relationship. (The program does this automatically when printing, but you
    may want to know what it is doing.)
      1. Count how many generation levels they are apart.  This is the number
    they are "removed."
      2. Start with the one at the highest generation level (the older level)
    and count how many generations up you must go to find the brothers or
    sisters that are the ancestors of these cousins.  This is the "FIRST" or
    "SECOND" or "THIRD" part of the cousin relationship.
      
                             GREAT-GRANDFATHER
                                 /     \
                       GRANDFATHER      GREAT-UNCLE
                         /     \              \
                   FATHER     UNCLE        1st COUSIN ONCE REMOVED
                   /  \         \                   \
               >YOU< BROTHER  1st COUSIN            2nd COUSIN
                /      \          \                     \
             SON    NEPHEW   1st COUSIN ONCE REMOVED   2nd COUSIN ONCE REMOVED
             /         /           \                      \
    GRANDSON  GRAND-NEPHEW  1st COUSIN TWICE REMOVED  2nd COUSIN TWICE REMOVED
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The proceeding was written by and is provided as a courtesy by
John Steed
6907 Childsdale
Rockford, MI  49341   U.S.A.
 John Steed is the author of Brother's Keeper.  
 You may download this wonderful shareware program through my Genealogy Page.