This makes sense to me. When you get into that "removing" stuff, I'm lost. Jane Foley NC ----- Original Message ----- From: <Cooperbobw@aol.com> To: <tnwayne@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 10:08 PM Subject: [TNWAYNE] Fwd: Kinfolk? > You can start with anybody. The relationships remain constant from > whichever person you start with. His first cousins are still his first > cousins, > etc. I think what you mean is that you start with the first common > ancestors......, which for first cousins is grandparents. For second > cousins, great > grandparents, etc. > > > > ____________________________________ > From: lunaallenjoyce@yahoo.com > Reply-to: tnwayne@rootsweb.com > To: tnwayne@rootsweb.com > Sent: 8/19/2008 6:54:40 P.M. Central Standard Time > Subj: Re: [TNWAYNE] Kinfolk? > > > I thought you started with the grandparents? > joyce > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: David Cagle <dcagle1@charter.net> > To: tnwayne@rootsweb.com > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 6:12:49 PM > Subject: Re: [TNWAYNE] Kinfolk? > > Joyce, > I was confused by some of the answers. I think the "once removed" is the > fly in the ointment. If Joyce and Pat are children of first cousins, > Ethel > and Trilby respectively, then Ethel is 2nd cousin to Pat and Trilby is > 2nd > cousin to Joyce. Then Joyce and Pat are third cousins. Then Joyce and > Pat > would be 4th cousins to each other's children. Each generation adds > another > number. > David > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Joyce Luna" <lunaallenjoyce@yahoo.com> > To: "Wayne co TN" <tnwayne@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 19, 2008 11:52 AM > Subject: [TNWAYNE] Kinfolk? > > > Question: > My mother(Ethel) has a first cousin(trilby) They share a grandmother. > (so they are first cousins.) > Now Joyce is Trilby's first cousin once removed? > They each have a daughter(Pat and Joyce) who share the ggrandmother. > Does this make Pat and Joyce second cousins? > joyce > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNWAYNE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > > > -- > No virus found in this incoming message. > Checked by AVG. > Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.6.5/1620 - Release Date: 8/19/2008 > 6:04 AM > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNWAYNE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the > body of the message > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNWAYNE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the > body of the message > > > > > **************It's only a deal if it's where you want to go. Find your > travel > deal here. > (http://information.travel.aol.com/deals?ncid=aoltrv00050000000047) > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > TNWAYNE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >