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Cousin Chart
For more on this subject visit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin
The chart below helps explain cousin relationships.
Note that in informal usage, a granduncle is often called a great uncle and a grandaunt is often called a great aunt. Note also that cousinship is not calculated between individuals when one is descended from the other.
| If one person's → | Parent | Grandparent | Great Grandparent | Great Great Grandparent | Great Great Great Grandparent | Great Great Great Great Grandparent | Great Great Great Great Great Grandparent | |
| is the other person's ↓ |
then they're ↘ | |||||||
| Parent | Siblings | Niece/Nephew or Aunt/Uncle |
Grand- Niece/Nephew or Aunt/Uncle |
Great Grand- Niece/Nephew or Aunt/Uncle |
Great Great Grand- Niece/Nephew or Aunt/Uncle |
Great Great Great Grand- Niece/Nephew or Aunt/Uncle |
Great Great Great Great Grand- Niece/Nephew or Aunt/Uncle |
|
| Grandparent | Niece/Nephew or Aunt/Uncle |
First Cousins | First Cousins Once Removed | First Cousins Twice Removed | First Cousins Thrice Removed | First Cousins Four Times Removed | First Cousins Five Times Removed | |
| Great Grandparent | Grand- Niece/Nephew or Aunt/Uncle |
First Cousins Once Removed | Second Cousins | Second Cousins Once Removed | Second Cousins Twice Removed | Second Cousins Thrice Removed | Second Cousins Four Times Removed | |
| Great Great Grandparent | Great Grand- Niece/Nephew or Aunt/Uncle |
First Cousins Twice Removed | Second Cousins Once Removed | Third Cousins | Third Cousins Once Removed | Third Cousins Twice Removed | Third Cousins Thrice Removed | |
| Great Great Great Grandparent | Great Great Grand- Niece/Nephew or Aunt/Uncle |
First Cousins Thrice Removed | Second Cousins Twice Removed | Third Cousins Once Removed | Fourth Cousins | Fourth Cousins Once Removed | Fourth Cousins Twice Removed | |
| Great Great Great Great Grandparent | Great Great Great Grand- Niece/Nephew or Aunt/Uncle |
First Cousins Four Times Removed | Second Cousins Thrice Removed | Third Cousins Twice Removed | Fourth Cousins Once Removed | Fifth Cousins | Fifth Cousins Once Removed | |
| Great Great Great Great Great Grandparent | Great Great Great Great Grand- Niece/Nephew or Aunt/Uncle |
First Cousins Five Times Removed | Second Cousins Four Times Removed | Third Cousins Thrice Removed | Fourth Cousins Twice Removed | Fifth Cousins Once Removed | Sixth Cousins | |