Depends, are the nieces descendants of the uncles siblings or by marriage? It helps to draw a descendant tree. And do you call the brother of your grandmother a grand uncle or a great uncle. According to my genealogy program, the brother of my grandfather is a granduncle, the brother of my great grandfather is my great granduncle. I just call my granduncle a great uncle, who knew it was so complicated! Children of the uncles brother and sister are first cousins. They are the uncles nephew A and niece B. If nephew A has a child C, that child C is a grand niece/nephew of the uncle. The grand niece/nephew Child C is first cousin once removed to niece B. If niece B has a child D then Child C and Child D are second cousins. If Child D has a child E, then that child E is second cousin once removed from Child C. Child E is the great grand niece/nephew of the uncle. Child E is first cousin twice removed from Nephew A. First cousins are the grandchildren, the third generation from grandma and granddad. The fourth generation, or great grandchildren, are second cousins to each other, but they are first cousins once removed to the members of the third generation. Is that about as clear as mud? I may have confused myself so if I made a mistake someone please correct me. From: "June" <jnevar@attbi.com> Reply-To: SC-Genealogy-L@rootsweb.com To: SC-Genealogy-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [SC] realtionship of several nieces to an uncle in genaelogy Date: Sun, 1 Sep 2002 15:41:15 -0400 I have a question for you! A friend is trying to determine a relation and I couldn't answer him, but thought you might have the answer. Here goes: If I was a nephew to an individual and you were a great-niece to the same individual, what would our relationship be?? ==== SC-Genealogy Mailing List ==== Best Website around for South Carolina SCGenWeb - South Carolina Genealogy research http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/3837/ _________________________________________________________________ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com