Cousin Chart—Family Relationships Explained • • FamilySearch Blog

GillianReynolds4

Thanks this explains it so well.

seabs

Wow Thanks

Bert

Cyndy92

Awesome chart! Makes things a lot easier to understand.

LyndaRyan

Thank you so much, this is going to be amazingly helpful. Especially with the divorced and then remarried family members etc

Ian Mansell

Simplifies everything. Thanks

Marvin Sands

Thanks for sharing this information. I pretty well understood the various relationships but other members of my family are still a bit in the dark and this will, hopefully, help them understand better those distant relationships.

This was a great idea -- once again, thanks for creating this chart and calculator.

nalovd

This is fantastic! Thank you so much for simplifying and helping to detangle the 'cousin' dilemma that I'm sure many of us find confusing. :)

GermanHernandez3

Thanks now I know the meaning of once and twice removed and etc !!

Sharonamber

👍️

jrowland

Thank you so much for the great chart. Now I will be able to show how we are related.

DonaldMontgomery5

Thank you for simplifying the cousin relationships. There are so many cousins in our family that still are in contact with each other. So many of us grew up together and although we knew we were either 1st or 2nd cousins and so on, we would introduce each other as simply our cousin when meeting new people. The chart is very interesting and educational. Even though my 3rd cousin will always be introduced as simply my cousin, it is great to learn the origins of how 1st, 2nd,3rd and etc. of our cousins came to be. Very educational. Thank you again for the chart.

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Denis76

This will be a great help Thank you

DonaldMontgomery5

Everyone of us are related. Every single one of us, I would bet could trace back to the same ancestor of that Earth Family Tree. What do you all think, cousins? 🙂

Fartoma Francis

I am very grateful for this information I have received I will work on it thank you.

Penny McDonald

Thank you Jessica for the explanation and charts too.

Lovely to find all my new relatives, and the journeys and connections we have made.

Butch

So HOW do I produce a list from familySearch of all of my cousins.

Mrs. ParkerF

Thank you Ms. Grimaud I needed this. I never understood they term until now.

PaulKuehn1

Thank you very much, Jessica. Your charts will help very much in my genealogy research.

PatReynolds1

I am a little disapointed, having found similar charts already elsewhere, but appreciate that Family Search is often the first port of call for a new family historian (as it should be!).

What I need is a chart that is populated with the people from my tree - e.g. I would put my great-grandaunt's husband in the 'start person' slot, and it would populate with lists of the people matching in my tree with relationships to him. His sister married into a family that inter-married with two other families across generations, so it is very hard to simply "see" how any one is related to him!

Edwin M. Hopkins

Unfortunately, this chart, which is highly conventional, contains a serious logical flaw. By the wording alone, it is impossible to determine from among your "removed cousins" the most important piece of information you will want to know, whether a relative is generationally junior or generationally senior the you. Logically, your First Cousin, once removed, shown in red (gerationally junior to you) would be your Second Niece/Nephew and your First Cousin, once removed, shown in blue (gerationally senior to you) would be your second Uncle/Aunt. With similar logic, your First Cousin, twice removed, shown in purple (gerationally junior to you) would be your Second Grand Niece/Nephew and your First Cousin, twice removed, shown in green (gerationally senior to you) would be your second Grand Uncle/Aunt; your Second Cousin, twice removed, shown in purple (gerationally junior to you) would be your Third Grand Niece/Nephew and your Second Cousin, twice removed, not shown (gerationally senior to you) would be your Third Grand Uncle/Aunt. Etc.

MClare

I am very please to see you calling my grandparent's siblings "Granduncles and aunts" I have always thought this more consistent than "greatuncle" but am shouted down most of the time. Grand minds think alike!

ElizabethKalabus

Wonderful information Thank you. EK

DaveBerge

Very interesting and easy to understand....... relatively!

TerryNorton1

Thank you I never could understand how that all worked.

Ken Corners

A great help, I had never understood.

MelonieGim

This is an awesome tool! Thank you so much for posting it. 💕

MelindaSlings

Thank you.

Len D Knapp

Hi Jessica

This explains it some much better than I have be told in the past! I would like to contact you due to your last name as it is on our family tree. When you have a moment could you please drop me a line and I will send send a couple of names and maybe we are the same family.

PatGroom1

Thank you so much for these charts and information. Very helpful.

Dennis Zlatkin

Thanks for a great explanation of how this works. Never understood the "twice removed" stuff.