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• Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  A second cousin is someone with whom you share a great-grandparent.

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  • JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Earliest common ancestor is great-grandparent. With same number intermediaries for both people.

    n^th cousin is how many “g’s” in the title of the earliest common ancestor. Grandparent == one “g” = first cousin. Two gs, second cousin, etc.

    “Removed” is the offset value, or the difference between how many intermediaries between the two parties and their earliest common ancestor.

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    • Revan343@lemmy.ca ⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Well yes, but ‘second cousin’ with no qualifiers implies we’re talking about zero times removed. The more salient point I was trying to make was that yes, second cousins share blood

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