> > I am still confused. Can you please tell me who "6" and "D" would be to me if I were "A"?
> > Do you know of any books that clearly explain the family relationships ?
> > Jo "wants to understand how this works"anna
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> Heh. I'm answering my own question from another message in this thread, I admit it...but anyway...
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> I punched "cousins relationships" into Google, and this was the first link on the list; 'tis a good one too. It's a nice handy chart showing what relation two people are given their relationships to a common ancestor-- at least I can make sense of it, though I'm not sure whether anyone who thinks differently from me will be able to. :)
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> According to this, the aforementioned daughter of my first cousin would indeed be, as Kikipegette said, my first cousin once removed, rather than my second cousin as Eric and I had thought. (Mea culpa...)
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> -- codeman"ah, gotta love Google"38

Heh. That IS a good one. The nice thing is, it tells me that I had it right in my head--and that I wasted a bunch of time explaining what was already shown in the chart. :-)

Don "Well, maybe I helped to explain how the chart could be re-created, or how to figure this stuff out without a chart. Yeah, that's it." Monkey