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Originally Posted by WCsweet<3
My family is just tiny and so we have to know our cousins be it 2nd, 3rd, 4th etc.
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Things would confuse other people when I mentioned my family (my dad's side is just me & sister for the most part) as we have cross generational bonding due to age. My great aunt & great uncle are only a couple years older than my mom so I usually never use great and say aunt & uncle. My mom was the oldest of 7, but I came along later, so my 1st cousins' kids I am closer to in age. That's the same generational placement that makes my second cousin old enough to be my dad, but my first cousin once removed my age peer.
Before I moved away from the big city and met people who had rural backgrounds, or were Mormons, I was pretty much the only kid who knew those degrees and removals of their family. My dad's family threw that way off though as my grandparents married and had him late, and he had me later in life, but weren't farmers. When one has 10 or so kids the first born is usually having their first born when their last sibling is being born. It ended up that my maternal great grandmother was a year or two younger than my paternal grandmother, which further became skewed as she got married at 14 to my 27 year old maternal great grandfather.
Also way creepy thing (but normal at the time and still in some world cultures) I found in my background: my father's mother's grandfather married a woman who died with no offspring, so he married her sister. So my great great great aunt and grandmother are crossed on my family tree.
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