Some rather interesting posts on genealogy recently and none so more than the one about the McKinvens. Never knew you were so old Mack and belated birthday wishes!
Getting interested in tracing my own family tree and was looking for an explanation of how first cousins, second cousins,"once removed etc" works?
I was always under the impression that second cousins are the children of cousins and third cousins are the children of second cousins - is this correct? Where does "first removed" fit in?
Let the lesson begin..