Bloodline question.........

[londondave]

If my dad and Freds dad are cousins then what relation am I to Fred? I was told that it was 2nd cousin, but I thought 2nd cousin was my cousins child.

[Quizmonster]

Click here for a web-page all about such relationships. Your two fathers, as cousins, share grandparents...ie Fred and you have common ancestors in great-grandparents. On the web-page, look at the top of Column 3 which is headed GGC for great grandchild (you). Scroll on down from there to GGC in the left-hand column (Fred) and read along that row to where it meets your row. It reads 2C for Second Cousin.

[Gevs1966]

londondave if you read back what you have written you actually answered your own question

[jno]

Your relation to your cousin's child would be called 'once removed' - ie one generation removed.

[Gevs1966]

actually jno your relation to your 2nd cousins child would be once removed

[jno]

also true, Gevs1966 - you're one generation removed from both of them. Same for 3rd cousin's children etc. Technically you're once removed from nephews and nieces too, I suppose.