How are we related If our great grandfathers were brothers?

Great-grandparents > you are second cousins. And so on. If your great-great grandfathers are siblings, then you have a common great-great-great grandfathers, and are fourth cousins.

What is the relationship between people who share great-grandparents?

If you share the same great-grandparents, you are second cousins. If you share the same great-great-grandparents you are third cousins, and so on. However, if your grandparents are someone else’s great-grandparents, then you are first cousins once removed, because there is a generational gap between you.

What are second great-grandparents?

To avoid a proliferation of “greats” when discussing genealogical trees, one may also use ordinals instead of multiple “greats”; thus a “great-great-grandfather” would be the “second great-grandfather”, and a “great-great-great-grandfather” would be a third great-grandfather, and so on.

What cousins are you if your great-grandparents are siblings?

First cousins share a set of grandparents. They’re the children of siblings. Second cousins share the same great-grandparents. They’re the children of first cousins.

What is the relationship of two people whose grandfathers were brothers?

The siblings of YOUR grandparents are your granduncle or grandaunt, not great uncle nor great aunt. Similarly, the siblings of YOUR great-grandparents are YOUR great- granduncle or great-grandaunt. Also the same nomen- clature is used for grandnephew and grandniece.

Are your parents cousins your aunts and uncles?

But, technically, they are your cousins and not aunts/uncles. You can if you want to but what they really are, are your great-cousins, meaning your parent’s cousins. Just like your parents grandmother is your great grandmother, and your parent’s aunt is your great aunt.

Who called first cousins?

First cousins share a grandparent, second cousins share a great-grandparent, third cousins share a great-great-grandparent, and so on. So your first cousin once removed is the child (or parent) of your first cousin. Your second cousin once removed is the child (or parent) of your second cousin.

Is my mom’s cousin my second cousin?

You and the child of your parent’s cousin are second cousins. Think of them as first cousins, because they are in the same generation as you, but with an added generation between yourselves and your linking ancestor. Similarly, your child and your cousin’s child are second cousins to each other.