Posts in January 4, 2023

The wedding card to my parents is signed “your cousin.” The writer was my dad’s cousin, but not his first, second, or third cousin. She was his first cousin twice removed–meaning that she was his grandfather’s first cousin. Well actually she was his grandfather’s half-first cousin making her my Dad’s half-first cousin twice removed. Someone who says they are a cousin may be biologically related, but do not assume that they are first cousins. It is also possible that someone calls someone cousin when they is no biological relationship.