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How cousin are we?

How many times you have been at a family reunion and knew the person you were talking to was your cousin, but were not sure "how cousin" you were? Often understanding and remembering the kinship relationship between distant cousins is not that easy. I realized that in a recent trip to visit a distant cousin on my husband's side of the family. That brought me to create this visual "cousin chart" that has proven very useful, and that is going to be…

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Added by Michelina Hall on March 16, 2010 at 4:30pm — No Comments

A cousin is a cousin is a cousin. Or are they?

When one is adopted at an early age, one tends to think of the people that raised you into adulthood as your parents. Any nieces and nephews of your parents are automatically assumed to be your cousins. Just like any normal blood related family would, correct?



Such is the case with myself and my sister. Both of us were born in the Philippines. She in Quezon City in February of 1968, and me in Manila in March of 1967. Both of us knew, from the time we were old enough to understand,… Continue

Added by Claude P Perry II on July 8, 2009 at 11:18pm — 9 Comments

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