@grandmoon wrote:
Friend has a son who has a daughter who is a granddaughter (call her A). The friends other Granddaughter has a daughter being a great granddaughter (call her B).
What is the relationship between the two little girls.
Stawka said:
Second cousins[edit]
The children of first cousins share a second cousin relationship. Second cousins share great-grandparents. People occasionally
mistake the child of their first cousin as their "second cousin" - however that would actually be a first cousin, once removed. The removal denotes the generational difference.
Sam and Susannah are second cousins because they are non-first cousins and non-siblings who share great-grandparents. In other words, Sam and Susannah's parents are cousins.
In the original example given by grandmoon, the 2 girls were not both children of first cousins. Great granddaughter B is the child of granddaughter A's first cousin.
If Granddaughter A also had a daughter (C) then C and B would be second cousins, or that's what it seems to be saying to me, but it is late at night!
But I'm with you.. I think I would just write 'cousins' on the form!! If anyone queries it, give them the details and let them work it out.
But I'm with you.. I think I would just write 'cousins' on the form!! If anyone queries it, give them the details and let them work it out.
Thing is they won't be able to either because of dumbness/ weariness/ bluddy mindlessness/ anger at you/anger at themselves because of dumbness/ their day being ruined/ ..... one could go on, but they will accept whatever you say, trust me. .
