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My cousins range from 92 to 2 years old. They are all my cousins, although I do realize that some are first cousins, others are second cousins, and yet others are various degrees of separation cousins.
I do sometimes refer to my first cousins' grandchildren as my "grand-cousins", though I don't have a special name for my first cousins' children.
Folks, your first cousin's children are NOT your second cousins.
Someone upthread posted a helpful link. But I would guess that most people didn't click it. So here's a small portion of the table featured in that link:
Folks, your first cousin's children are NOT your second cousins.
Someone upthread posted a helpful thread. But I would guess that most people didn't click it. So here's a small portion of the table featured in that link:
Nice diagram.
I simply just consider them 'cousins'. I don't have to go with the whole "once removed/twice removed" thing.
My cousins range from 92 to 2 years old. They are all my cousins, although I do realize that some are first cousins, others are second cousins, and yet others are various degrees of separation cousins.
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Why are some of you confusing the kids? They are not nieces and nephews, in any culture. They are not second cousins. They are your cousins children or your parents cousins. That is what they are and will ever be. Anything else sounds stupid. I hope some of you people stay away from genealogy.
Really - you know every culture in the world and how they perceive relationships. The thread wasn't about actual relationships, it was asking people what they considered the relationship. My cousins kids call me aunt and this is the way it is in my culture (Indian).
Do you think of them as being more like cousins, nieces/nephews or just "distant relations"? I have two younger first cousins-once removed on my dad's side and I think of myself as being like an uncle to them because I'm 16-18 years older than they are however at the same time I know my relationship with them perhaps isn't as "special" as if/whenever my own siblings have kids. They're actually the only small kids in my family aside from some other cousins' kids on my mom's side, most of whom I've never met and have barely seen their parents in the past 17 years.
I consider them my cousin's kids since that is what they are.
Some I have never met and others I have seen in years.
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