In a message dated 4/25/01 9:26:49 AM Mountain Daylight Time, webachel@wolf.co.net writes: << Isn't this the neatest topic? I grew up with "Cousin once removed" or "twice" or was it such and such!?? I never understood the removal part except that they applied to the married folks that married direct family blood lines. I also couldn't figure out the twice removed anything either when that was mentioned, unless you wanted me to remove it from the cupboard. Now, that removal, I understood fully! *hehehe* >> "Removal" in this sense is just the number of generations that separate two individuals. My grandmother's first cousin is my mother's first-cousin, once-removed and my own first-cousin, twice-removed. Sharon McAllister

Oh wow...now I understand. That was an excellent explanation. Thank you Sharon. Shelia ----- Original Message ----- From: <Smcbox@cs.com> To: <OKGEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 25, 2001 11:47 AM Subject: Re: [OKGEN ] Shirt-Tail Cousins: > In a message dated 4/25/01 9:26:49 AM Mountain Daylight Time, > webachel@wolf.co.net writes: > > << > Isn't this the neatest topic? I grew up with "Cousin once removed" or > "twice" or was it such and such!?? I never understood the removal part > except that they applied to the married folks that married direct family > blood lines. I also couldn't figure out the twice removed anything either > when that was mentioned, unless you wanted me to remove it from the > cupboard. Now, that removal, I understood fully! *hehehe* >> > > "Removal" in this sense is just the number of generations that separate two > individuals. > > My grandmother's first cousin is my mother's first-cousin, once-removed and > my own first-cousin, twice-removed. > > Sharon McAllister > > > ==== OKGEN Mailing List ==== > Oklahoma Vital Records Information - > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/vital/vital.html > Oklahoma Census Records - > http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/census.htm > >