Name: Your Family Tree Explained
Uploaded: 2014-08-10T09:25:35.000Z
Duration: 4 min
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This is you, this is your family tree and

parents. These are your grandparents, who also

Keep adding parents, keep adding "greats".

generation in between you and that person.

Continuing with the basics, you have siblings,

Up the tree, you may call these people your

great aunts and uncles, but your grandparent's

siblings are also your grand aunts and uncles.

Greats are reserved for the levels above grand.

Your great grandparents' siblings are your great

Now down the tree, your siblings' children are

your nieces and nephews, collectively - niblings,

nephews, and you are their grand aunt or uncle.

We've gone up and we've gone down, and it's

favorite in-laws. You are on the same level of

the family tree as your spouse's siblings.

You are kind of "suito-sibling". All the new  families'

relationsips to you are the same as to your  spouse,

It's pretty straightfoward except for one case:

Your spouses' siblings are your siblings-in-law

but are your siblings in-law spouses also your

Alright, enough with the in-laws, it's onto the  reason

you're probably watching this video. Cousins?

Your aunt's and uncle's chidren are your  cousins,

but there are many kinds of cousins and to

simplify this family tree, and think downward.

Here is you, your children and your  grandchildren.

Your grandchildren are your first cousins to each  other,

and their children, your great grandchildren,

are second cousins to each other, and so on.

The cousin number is the same as the "G" rule:

it tells you how many in-betweeners until the  connection

Fourth cousins? Four in-betweeners, and a  shared

According to the rule, your first cousins

And second cousins share a great grandparent

Just match the cousin number with the number

Side note here: Continuing this rule in reverse,

means that siblings can technically call each

other 0th cousins, which they totally should,

All done here now, nothing more to talk about ...

You may have noticed these cousins are on the  same level.

Removed just describes how many generations  apart people are.

For example: what's the family connection  between these two?

Start by taking the smaller cousin number

first cousins, and count the levels apart, once  removed.

These are 1st cousins twice removed, thrice removed.

And these are second cousins, once removed.

Doing all this on our simplified drawing of your

descendence is a bit too easy as most family  trees look

The rules are still the same - first cousins, second cousins and the removed,

but it is a bit harder to tell quickly who exactly is

your second cousin twice removed or your great grandaunts-in-law?

To help, there is a chart you can download

which will both make it much easier to figure out

what grandnibling or cousin removed are to anyone at

the next family reunion and obviously, show

Now we're really done. Unless, you start thinking

about the math of all of these family members.

Just how many great, great, great, great granparents

And those ex-grandparents had kids giving you a whole lot of cousins.

This chart happens to stop at 10th cousins

but these numbers both have big, possibly unsettling asterisks

attached to them, which we will talk about more

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