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Question:I'm trying to determine the correct relation name between myself and a couple of my ancestors. I'm not good with the "removed" jargon (ex. third cousin twice removed, etc).

Relation A: What is the relation called between me and my
Great-Great-Great Grandfather's brothers? Are they my
Great-Great Uncles?
1. Me
2. My Father
3. My Grandfather
4. My Great-Grandfather
5. My Great-Great-Grandfather
6. My Great-Great-Great Grandfather's Brothers

Relation *: What is the relation called between me and my
5-Great Grandfather's brother's grandchild?

Hope this makes sense. Thanks!


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I'm trying to determine the correct relation name between myself and a couple of my ancestors. I'm not good with the "removed" jargon (ex. third cousin twice removed, etc).

Relation A: What is the relation called between me and my
Great-Great-Great Grandfather's brothers? Are they my
Great-Great Uncles?
1. Me
2. My Father
3. My Grandfather
4. My Great-Grandfather
5. My Great-Great-Grandfather
6. My Great-Great-Great Grandfather's Brothers

Relation *: What is the relation called between me and my
5-Great Grandfather's brother's grandchild?

Hope this makes sense. Thanks!

Relation A: 4th great uncle

Relation *: 2nd cousin 5x removed.

You do NOT figure out relationships by "grandfather's brother's grandchild" kind of set up. You have to go back one more generation to the person that you AND the person you are asking about have as a common ancestor. So, in #*, what you REALLY need to look at is your 6th great-grandfather because that is the ancestor you have in common with the person you are asking about.

Use this chart at the website below to figure things out. Insert your name down the left column in the relationship slot you have to the common ancestor, and across the top the name of the other person in the slot corresponding to their relationship to the common ancestor. Where the two columns intersect is YOUR relationship to that other person.

http://genealogy.about.com/library/nrela...

to figure it out its the relation between you and your grandparents. Say you have a cousin who has a child. You would be thier uncle because your in the same category as your cousin to your grandparents. hope this helps.

this is how it works.,
each relationship here, is the same 'level' from the ancestor in common:
siblings share parents
1st cousins share grandparents
2nd cousins share gr grandparents
3 rd cousins share gr gr grandparents
so on..
so your father has a first cousin...
YOU and your fathers 1st cousin are not of the same level (generation), you are a generation removed from each other. That makes your father's 1st cousin, YOUR first cousin, 'once removed'. The removed part refers to being of differing generations or levels.
Any children of your father's 1st cousin.. those are your 2nd cousins (you would be of the same level from the common ancestor).
The criteria lies in how many generations are different between you and a cousin.

The brothers of your great-great-great-grandfather are your great-great-great-great uncles--or, if this will make it any easier, they're your great-great-great-GRAND uncles. The second alternative gives all the members of that generation the same number of "greats" and one "grand."

The child of a brother of your 5th-great-grandfather is a first cousin of your 4th-great-grandfather, right? So he's a first cousin once removed of your 3rd-great-grandfather, a first cousin twice removed of your great-great-grandfather, etc., and your first cousin six times removed (if I haven't lost *****). In short, if you marry his 4th-great-granddaughter, I doubt that anyone will accuse you of committing incest!

P. S. Having read the preceding answer and recounted both my answers, I stick to my original *****. That grandson of your 6th-great-grandfather is your first cousin SIX times removed, and the brothers of your 3rd-great-grandfather are your 4th-great-uncles or your 3rd-great-granduncles.

I understand the common grandparents issue, but I get many questions from grand-kids and cousins, etc., and if you get into tracking a large family tree of a couple thousand people, you'll probably want to get a program that calculates relationships.It helps when you make contact with 6th cousins who are also working on your family lines, since often it's hard to figure out who we are to one another.
This is something that computers do well.

I use Family Tree Maker 16, and it costs money, and many genealogists have their own preferences. Most programs DO relationship reports.

This one is a free download: PAF -- available at http://www.familysearch.org/ , and it has a relationship calculator, and all genealogists I've met have respect for what it has done for the endeavor of genealogy. And it's free.

You may not need to computerize or organize yet; but you will when you get bitten by the bug, and organization is crucial.

Happy hunting!