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Question

Is your first cousin once removed your second cousin? I need to know because I have to translate it into spanish for a family tree project.

Answer 1

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Answer 2

I don't think so, but I have never really understood the 'removed' thing. Everyone seems to explain it differently and think that they know for sure. I don't know where it is clearly defined.
To me a second cousin is someone who is a first cousin to your parent; that second cousin's child would then be a third cousin, etc.

Answer 3

No, your first cousin once removed is your first cousin once removed. Your second cousin is your second cousin. Two different things!

To understand how it works, take a look at this imaginary family:

Generation 1: Robert-------->(siblings)<----------Sall…
Generation 2: Mary-------->(1st cousins)<-------Lisa
Generation 2: Molly------->(2nd cousins)<------Lindsay
Generation 4: Callie------->(3rd cousins)<------Ashley

Robert and Sally are siblings.
Their children, Mary and Lisa, are 1st cousins.
Mary and Lisa’s children, Molly and Lindsay, are 2nd cousins.
Molly and Lindsay’s kids, Callie and Ashley, are 3rd cousins.

The “removed” comes in when you’re talking about cousins who are in a different generation from each other. Take Mary and Lindsay, for example. They’re one generation apart, so they would be 1st cousins once removed. Mary and Ashley are 2 generations apart, so they’d be 1st cousins twice removed. Molly and Ashley are second cousins once removed, because they’re 2nd cousin, one generation apart.

Make sense?

Answer 4

No
You and you first cousin once remove share a common Grandparent. For you it would be your Great Grandparent and for them their Grandparent

Your second cousin and you share the same Great Grandparent.

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