The Handy-Dandy Cousin Chart
This little chart is useful to find out what relation you might be to another person i.e. are we 2nd cousins. Thanks to Jeff Richards for putting it on the R-Genealogy bulletin board back when I copied it.
------------------------------------------------------------------- CP | S-D | GS | GGS | 2GGS | 3GGS | 4GGS | 5GGS |6GGS | --------------------------------------------------------------- S-D | B-S | N | GN | GGN | 2GGN | 3GGN | 4GGN | 5GGN | --------------------------------------------------------------- GS | N | 1C | 1C1R | 1C2R | 1C3R | 1C4R | 1C5R | 1C6R | --------------------------------------------------------------- GGS | GN | 1C1R | 2C | 2C1R | 2C2R | 2C3R | 2C4R | 2C5R | --------------------------------------------------------------- 2GGS | GGN | 1C2R | 2C1R | 3C | 3C1R | 3C2R | 3C3R | 3C4R | --------------------------------------------------------------- 3GGS | 2GGN | 1C3R | 2C2R | 3C1R | 4C | 4C1R | 4C2R | 4C3R | --------------------------------------------------------------- 4GGS | 3GGN | 1C4R | 2C3R | 3C2R | 4C1R | 5C | 5C1R | 5C2R | --------------------------------------------------------------- 5GGS | 4GGN | 1C5R | 2C4R | 3C3R | 4C2R | 5C1R | 6C | 6C1R | --------------------------------------------------------------- 6GGS | 5GGN | 1C6R | 2C5R | 3C4R | 4C3R | 5C2R | 6C1R | 7C | --------------------------------------------------------------- --------------------------------------------------------------- CP: Common Progenitor (in layman's terms, your common ancestor) S-D: Son or Daughter B-S: Brother or Sister C: Cousin xR: Times Removed G: Grand GG: Great-Grand xGG: Number of Greats-Grand N: Nephew or Niece To use: Find your relationship to your common progenitor using the up-down column all the way to the left. Find the other person's relationship to your common progenitor using the row along the top. Follow the row and column until they meet, and that is your relationship with the other person. Example: Let's say my g-g-g-grandfather is a common progenitor to a person who is related to me. Let's also say that my g-g-g-grandfather is the_other_person's g-grandfather. So, I look on the left and go down to where it says 3GGS. That is_my_row. The other person's column is GGS, along the top. Follow them until they meet, and you get 2C2R. He's my 2nd cousin, twice removed. This chart can be easily expanded in both directions.
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