How far back can you trace your family history?

[epchick]

Originally Posted by AGDee

In this sense, removed means they are of a different generation than you. My aunts and uncles children are my first cousins. My first cousins' kids are my first cousins once removed, because they are not from my generation, they are one generation off from me.

Does that work in the opposite direction (like you are going down the family tree, i mean going up). Like i'll give an example. I'll use one of my grandmother's siblings--her brother Mauricio.

Mauricio had 6 kids (and i'll use my godfather Rudy as more of the example)
Rudy had 3 girls
His 3 girls all have kids (Rudy's grandchildren)

Rudy & his siblings would be my mom's first cousins. But "my generation" would be his grandchildren, so would they be my first cousins? Or would my "uncle" Rudy still be my first cousins as well?

Originally Posted by honeychile

^^ If you're related to the right one or two, chances are very good that you're related to several! It's a little suspect, though, that he claims to be related to President GW Bush but not President Franklin Pierce.

Things that make a genealogist say "Hmmm...."

He used to have the "how he was related to" geneology on his facebook, but now it's been greatly reduced to only these:

Jane Whitney (1669-1693): 8th Great Grandmother of epchick's friend; 6th Great Grandmother of Richard M Nixon

Sybil Gould (1527-1571): 14th Great Grandmother of epchick's friend; Great Grandmother of John Locke

Alice Farnham (1610-1652): 11th Great Grandmother of epchick's friend; 5th Great Grandmother of Rutherford Birchard Hayes

Jane Hogg (1598-1688): 10th Great Grandmother of epchick's friend; 6th Great Grandmother of William Howard Taft

Mary Farnham (1628-1714): 10th Great Grandmother of epchick's friend; 8th Great Grandmother of Gerald Ford

Alice Gulley (1553-1596): 11th Great Grandmother of epchick's friend; 8th Great Grandmother of Ronald Reagan