Do you know your third cousins? (search, grandmother, father, weddings)
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I don't except for the ones I have met on Facebook. I may have run into a few just by living in the same general area as them, but we certainly didn't know we related. I'm wondering how many of us know our relatives beyond a first or second cousin or a first or second cousin once removed.
I know some 1st cousins once removed. Through genealogy I know some more distant and how they connect. I have a friend who is a half 7th cousin. Friend first and later discovered to be distant cousins.
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No, and we don't keep in touch with many of our first or second cousins. All of our first and second cousins are in other states now, and we used to see them at family Christmas gatherings, but that ended in the 1980s. Then we moved here in 1992, and since then, have mostly only seen them at funerals. A couple of them we communicate with a few times a year on Facebook.
I’ve gotten to know several second cousins, mainly because my parents were quite fond of several of their first cousins, so the kids got to know each other. And since we knew each other, we all became Facebook friends once our generation started joining Facebook. But third cousins, no. I never knew my grandfathers, and my grandmothers never spoke of their own first cousins, nor of their husband’s first cousins.
Through genealogy I met on FB a first cousin once removed but she lives in Washington state. Long ago I met in person a third cousin and a fifth cousin in England. I had a lot in common with the third cousin and later found out that my gt grandfather had been taken in and raised by the ancestors we had in common after his (my gt grandfather's) father died young. That third cousin and I got together several times and corresponded by email for years. It was uncanny how much alike we were.
I have no first cousins and only our father had first cousins.
Would the children of my fathers first cousins be my 3rd cousins? If so then, yes I know them.
Twinkle, I think they would be your second cousins.
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