May 22, 2008
Who’s that baby?
My mom and I took Anna down to Little Rock today to meet my cousin’s baby, Eden Hollis. So Anna and Eden are… third cousins? First cousins twice removed? Anyone know? Anyway, Eden is only three weeks old and she came five weeks early, so she is still very tiny! (And very sleepy, apparently!)
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Soooo sweet… I love that lady bug outfit:)
Eden is your first cousin, once removed. Eden and Anna are second cousins.
The removal is generational. The degree is consanguinial, i.e., the shared ancestor.
Thanks!
Yes, thank you so much for the clarification on the whole “once twice removed” thing – no one has ever been able to explain that to me adequately.
Ok, I get the “once removed” part, but I don’t understand the “consanguinial” part. (Did you make that word up?) just kidding!
In my family, we just say cousins. I figure it’s a southern thang. :) Plus it’s much easier for the kids to say.
Yeah, I learned a new word today (although I think the correct form is “consanguineous”). I’d never heard that before. But I did know that “sanguine” means blood, so that makes sense.
Jennifer- it’s an archaic adjective, actually. “Con” =with, or in, + “sanguine”=blood, + “ial”, which turns it into a modifier.
I grew up in the Episcopal Church, and in the back of the old prayer book are the Degrees Of Consanguinity, which inform the devout whom they are not permitted to marry.
It’s indeed a very Southern thing to know in what degree one is related to the people around and about, particularly in small towns. I myself have a second cousin who is his own uncle…remind me to tell you about it sometime!