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• JasonDJ@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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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