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jaq
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Whos who?
« on: Friday 18 June 04 22:11 BST (UK) »
I get confused sometimes, but found this handyguide somewhere on the web [it was a long time ago]

                   Relationship Rules


The definitions are fairly consistent now.

First cousins have common grandparents,
Second cousins have common great-grandparents,
Third cousins have common great-great-grandparents,
Fourth cousins have common great-great-great-grandparents,
and so on.

The children of cousins are second cousins,
The children of second cousins are third cousins,
The children of third cousins are fourth cousins,
and so on.


For removes:

Your cousin once removed is your cousin's child - ie the removes is how
many generations REMOVED the person is from same level in the tree. The
convention that appears to be used (quite sensibly) is to state the
relationship of the lower level relative to the higher level relative, as
described in the example below:

The relationship of you to your father's cousin is stated by saying that
"you are his/her first cousin once removed".

Technically, but confusingly (and no longer used), that person is your
second cousin once removed as that person is one generation removed from
his/her children, who would be your second cousins.
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« Reply #1 on: Friday 18 June 04 22:24 BST (UK) »
Thanks, Jaq for this helpful bit of info.

So all these years that I've been calling my father's cousins my "second cousins" and their children my "third cousins" I've been wrong!  That's what comes of having no aunts or uncles.

Oh well, back to the drawing board!

Bel
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ARTHUR, ROBERTS, LEWIS and WILLIAMS in Denbighshire/Merionethshire/Glamorgan
EVANS and JONES in Montgomeryshire
FALLOW(E)S, JONES, PREECE and GITTON in Shropshire
and the list keeps growing...
(March 2006) Now looking for HINKS, SPARKES, INGRAM from West Midlands area
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« Reply #2 on: Friday 18 June 04 23:03 BST (UK) »
there are several relationship calculators available including these:

http://www.iroots.net/tools/cusncalc/
you can download a relationship calculator from.

and http://www.delanoye.org/tools/Cousins.html
have an online chart.

another little free gem:-
Also,the best AGE CALCULATOR  i've seen and use is from
http://www.1-4a.com/datestat/index.htm
1-4a Datestat 1.1 (Freeware)
displays the date difference (age) in various ways
You type in the dates (even before Christ, or really large years) and it shows the difference (=age) in different ways.
Check how old you are
Check how much older your father is
Check how old you will be in 1000 weeks
Check what day of week you've been born
Check the day number of year
even what starsign they were!..
 
 You can add dates/weeks/months/years to a certain date to see what date it will be.
 No installation needed. Just start it and calculate the age. 1-4a DateStat doesn't write anything to the hard disk.

jaq
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Balls Barker Burton Cambridge Cook Dow Freeman Goody Harrington Mitchell Mitson Penn*ck Playford Smith

http://lawrence-relations.rootschat.net/   ;-)
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