What relation are we?

[Bee35]

I share a common male ancestor with someone. We have the same great-great grandfather. His daughter and son respectively were our great grandparents.Their daughters were our grandmothers and so on. We are of the same generation. What relationship do we have to each other? We think 4th cousins a few times removed but not sure. Help!

[Quizmonster]

Click here for a website that enables you to calculate the meaning of such relationships as �second cousins twice removed' etc quite easily.

[Quizmonster]

Have you had a look at the site, Bee? In case you are having problems with it, you are third cousins.

[JudgeJ]

There is an easy way to remember this. First cousins share common grandparents (they are children of the grandparents� children). Second cousins share common great-grandparents. Third cousins share great-great grandparents. And so on. So you are third cousins.

�Removal� (�once removed�, etc.) comes about when you move up or down generations. So a child of your third cousin would be your third cousin once removed.

[Bee35]

Thank you very much. it is a much closer relationship than I thought!