> I'm a little confused about cousins - once removed, twice removed. > What does that mean? > > I have found cousins that are related down the line to my gggf. Are > they cousins or are they removed cousins? > > Thanks for the help, > Emmy emmydbd <emmydbd@yahoo.com> There are relationship calculators and charts online that can help you compute a relationship. http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~genepool/cousins.htm http://www.searchforancestors.com/utility/cousincalculator.html Greatly simplified, removed is the number of generations back to a common ancestor. news@jecarter.us