If you share a 6-great grandmother with someone, but no closer relative, then you and that person are seventh cousins.
Some say yes, you do need a hyphen because the term great is integral to the definition of great-grandmother. Otherwise, a great grandmother is just a grandmother who is terrific. Other people see no need and d not use hyphens for this.
A great-great-great grandmother is relatively common among individuals with multiple generations of ancestors. Each "great" represents a generation, so a great-great-great grandmother would be the sixth generation back from a person. However, the likelihood of knowing or having information about a specific individual that far back in the family tree decreases as you go further back in time.
If your parent's can't tell you their grandmother's name, then you will have to ask older relatives or do some research in the Census and other records.
Yes, she was a half-second cousin to her predecessor Anne Boleyn, as they shared a great-grandmother, Elizabeth Cheney. She was also 5th cousin to the King himself, as she was the great-great-granddaughter of King Edward III through Lionel of Antwerp, 1st Duke of Clarence.
Simply knowing a last name will tell you nothing about "how German" you are, even though Geyer is a Germanic name. You got the Geyer surname from your father, and he got it from his, etc., but you could still have an Asian mother, an Italian grandmother, a native American great grandmother, a French great great grandmother, and so have very little actual German ancestry compared to other ancestry. How "German" you are is more realistically indicated by how much you participate in German cultural and ethnic activities, and has nothing to do with your surname.
If his great grandmother and your grandmother are firstcousins, the you and he are third cousins, once removed.
First, some of your cousins are not related to your grandmother at all. That is, your father's mother is not related to the cousins you have who are the children of your mother'ssiblings.On the same side of the family, your first cousins are your grandmother's other grandchildren. Your second cousins are your grandmother's great nieces and great nephews. Your third cousins are your grandmother's first cousins, twice removed, your fourth cousins are your grandmothers second cousins, twice removed, etc., etc.
Two people who have the same great grandmother are second cousins to each other. Two people who have the same grandparent are first cousins.
Your granddaughter has four great grandmother's and presumably each had a husband. Two of them are your father and your father-in-law, but the other two are the grand parents of your daughter-in-law. You are not related to the grandparents of your daughter-in-law.
Where Joe's great-great grandmother is also Jane's great grandmother, Joe and Jane are Second Cousins, Once Removed. (Joe's parent and Jane are Second Cousins.)
Yes. If your grandmother's first cousin was someone else's grandmother, then the two of you are third cousins to each other.
Some say yes, you do need a hyphen because the term great is integral to the definition of great-grandmother. Otherwise, a great grandmother is just a grandmother who is terrific. Other people see no need and d not use hyphens for this.
The answer to this riddle is quite simple, although often answered incompletely - I am either your aunt or uncle, one of your parents or your 1st cousin, once removed (one of your parent's cousins).
If you are a woman, you are your great grandmother's great granddaughter so your son is the son of her great granddaughter. But there are other possible relationships to other of her great granddaughters.The great granddaughter could be your sister. Then your son is her nephew and she is his aunt.The great granddaughter could be your first cousin. Then she and your son are first cousins, once removed.The great granddaughter could be your second cousin. Then she and your son are second cousins, once removed.
If the great grandmother of one person was the great great aunt of another, the two are third cousins to each other.
If the great aunt of person A and the grandmother of person B are sisters, then the A and B are either siblings themselves, or they are first cousins or second cousins to each other.
When two people have the same great grandmother, depending on whether they also have other, closer, relatives in common they could be:siblingsfirst cousinssecond cousins