Working out relationships

[Christine in Portugal]

 I have recently been in contact with someone and we have a common ancestor and would like to know if anyone can work out our relationship.

Their gg grandfather was my ggg grandfather but he was married twice and the connection is with different wives.

Thanks in advance  Christine

[Elizabeth Revel]

Here is a chart which will help you sort it out.

http://www.rootsweb.com/~genepool/cousins.htm

Beth

[Christine in Portugal]

Thank you

Christine

[bervonian]

Just in case you are still baffled, the relationship is third cousins, once removed.

Bervonian.

[behindthefrogs]

Follow the simple rule of count the "g"s in the common ancestor. 

These are three (gg grandfather) and four (ggg grandfather)

The smaller gives you the number of times cousin - third
and the difference the number of times removed - once

David

[Christine in Portugal]

  Thanks very much David that makes it more simple to understand

                       Christine

[Necromancer]

the connection is with different wives.

so technically that would be half-3rd cousin etc ?

[misingo96]

A more complicated relationship

An unmarried woman has an illegitimate daughter and does not register the father's name on the birth record and the daughter is given the mother's surname. Many years later the woman marries and her husband accepts her by now teenage daughter into the family. At some stage the daughter, like her mother, has a child out of wedlock, and she too does not register the father's name on the birth record. Eventually, her mother and step-father adopt her baby.

What would be the step-father's and his wife's kinship to the baby - parents or grand-parents?

What would the child's kinship be to the step-father's parents? And, what would the kinship be to his mother's mother's parents?

What would be the child's ancestral line? Can the child follow the step-father's line?

Misingo

[Necromancer]

best to start your own thread - answers to your Q will be confusing to this thread's originator !