Cousin Chart—Family Relationships Explained • • FamilySearch Blog

DavidMiller/Everett

Hopefully, someday we will be able to automatically generate these charts using family search software/data.

Mary3,960

thanks for posting. great info

Pialenau

It is so irrelevant beyond 1 cousins. Essentially you're family with the whole world. 1 tribe,1 mob.

AngelaElliott

Thank you for making it easy to understand.

KenSmith87

Thank you. I agree with a comment suggesting how great it would be to automatically populate the chart.

LindaAmbill

Thank you. Your time and effort are appreciated.

PatriciaWilsonBlack87

This information is greatly needed and highly appreciated! Thanks so much. Keep up the great work.

Patricia

MCrowe3

Note to Suzanne Walker: Your mother's aunt's children are your mother's first cousins. They are marked blue in the first chart. If you look two steps to the right from your parents, they are your first cousins once removed.

Edna Manley

Thank you

This helps

carolyndavis26

Awesome. Thanks ❣️

James Pembroke

This is a great clarification. Thanks.

Marty Roks

Good Job! Thank You!

merlenemargaretlindow1

So helpful. Thank you

Daniel MarioFernandez Sagaste

Hi.! Could anyone please inform me what's my real relationship to someone I treat as and I call "cousin", whose great grandmother was a sister of my great grandfather?

Thanks.

Daniel

CarolynLembeck

So helpful! many thanks!

Jessie Frost1

Thanks!

Etuate Mila

First cousins share a grandparent (2 generations)

Second cousins share a great-grandparent (3 generations)

Third cousins share a great-great-grandparent(4 generations)

Fourth cousins share a 3rd-great grandparent (5 generations)

I always thought that first cousins were parent siblings. Whereas Second cousins were sibling grandparent? Not sure how this is explained to understand

StephenMCGOWAN7

I have had a first cousin twice removed identified through a DNA match but the lady,who lives in Germany will not reply to my message prompts on the DNA site My Heritage.I am trying to find the true Identity of my late mother butI can only contact her through the My Heritage web site,it really is frustrating.

PegRichardson

This is very helpful. I am still trying to figure out how Queen Elizabeth II is related to me. Her 25th great grandfather married my 24th great aunt. I know it is by marriage but it is still interesting. I know I will not be invited for tea anytime soon

Frances Miller Seay

Thanks!! Just printing the charts out now.

JohnsonBobbi

Thank you for this. I have always made it hard. This is helpful and I appreciate it very much!

MiriamWood

Thank you for placing this information in a chart format. With the added explanations, it makes it easier to understand

MaryRedmayne

Very helpful thanks.

Daniel Sagaste, this means you and your 'cousin' have the same great great grandparents. Using a chart or the advice of Etuate below you'll see that means you are third cousins.

Stephanie Daniels

Thank you for this. I get tangled up I will the "half" relationships...help!

Ferdinandle Roux

Talking to my anaesthetist recently just before a lens replacement procedure, he mentioned that his mother and I have the same surname. To make a long story short, it appeared that she was born on the same farm as my grandfather (born in 1864), she many years later. My anaesthetist (age 48), thanks to your chart, turned out to be my (age 86) second cousin once removed. Two weeks later when I had the other eye done, I was able to supply him with copies of old black and white photos taken by my father in the 1930's, of mutual family members, long passed away, posing for the photos in front of the old family homestead. Was great to get acquainted.

TinaGraham3

This is a lifesaver to combat and reduce confusion. It saves time scratching the head while pondering as well. Lol.

Many many thanks!

JulieEDMONDS3

Thank you so much for all the information and charts, it is all very handy and very helpful.

Vivienne6

I would like to contact any living relatives on my fathers side as I never knew him but do not have the finances to join a site I do have his info & his parents but that is all.

GeoffreyDridan

Very handy Chart, Thank you!!

KayleenChappell

Thanks for the download. I know family tree research can be daunting to some and especially these days with half and step brothers and sisters etc... This is a very simple means to show who is who in there family. I want to find someone to take over my 40 years work and pass it down to continue when I die. Don't want to overwhelm them too much at the start...