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
one of a series of others that I am going to creat
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From Randy Seaver’s “Genea-Musings” is Saturday Night Genealogical Fun. Divide your father’s age by four and round off the number. Find the ancestor in your pedigree chart that has been assigned that number.Father is 89 and still alive. Divide his age by 4 = 22.22 on pedigree chart(Legacy 7.0) is Hugh Hillman (born sometime in 1844 in Upper Canada to John Hillman and Isabella May. Died 6 Mar. 1894 Rodney, Ontario). He was my grandfather’s uncle. Married Sarah Campbell(9 July 1851-31 March 1918)
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