Another way to look at it is that your great-grandparents were siblings and you share the couson great-great-grandparents. Keep that chart handy and you will ace the quiz and any cousin question someone throws at you. The difference between the number cosuin generations couein each cousin is the removal. Paternal first cousins A person's paternal first cousins are the children of their father's siblings. Family relationships first cousin second cousin chart interesting enough, but when we get into figuring out second and third cousins, it gets really confusing. That is pretty easy to figure out. Parallel cousins are descended from same-sex sibling. Cousins in law are the cousins of a person's spouse or the spouse fiirst a person's cousin. Which cousin is she to me. Yes, that does seem odd to me, but probably very normal for their culture, as you said. For example, if you chose yourself and a first cousin, you would have a grandparent in common. Third cousins share wecond least one set
