• Revan343
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    A second cousin is someone with whom you share a great-grandparent.

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      Earliest common ancestor is great-grandparent. With same number intermediaries for both people.

      n^th cousin is how many “g’s” in the title of the earliest common ancestor. Grandparent == one “g” = first cousin. Two gs, second cousin, etc.

      “Removed” is the offset value, or the difference between how many intermediaries between the two parties and their earliest common ancestor.

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        Well yes, but ‘second cousin’ with no qualifiers implies we’re talking about zero times removed. The more salient point I was trying to make was that yes, second cousins share blood