Comment on What do you call your first cousin's child?
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks agoFor example, my great grandfather’s sister’s grandson was on the USS Thresher when it imploded. What would his relation be to me?
So your first common ancestors are your great great grandparents, so that’s third cousin, and they’re a generation older than you, so once removed. Third cousin once removed.
On that note, what do you call your grandparent’s sibling, vs your great grandparent’s sibling, and so on? Again, Google isn’t being very helpful here.
Grandparents’ siblings are you great aunts/great uncles, additional generations back you add more greats, so great grandparents’ siblings are your great great aunt/uncle. After a while people say “twice great” etc
bobagem@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
I believe that the answer is second cousin once removed.
I believe you need to count the distance to the common ancestor from the older generation of the two people being related.
I agree that the first common ancestor is OP’s great-great-grandparent. But only OP’s relation’s great-grandparent. So OP’s parent and OP’s relation are second cousins.
Then the removed takes you down the tree from OP’s parent to OP.
entropicdrift@lemmy.sdf.org 4 weeks ago
Ah, you’re completely right.
If that person had a kid it’d be your third cousin, but since that person is OP’s parents’ second cousin, they are OP’s second cousin once removed.