# 3rd cousin twice removed, etc.

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3rd-cousin-twice-removed-etc/574106>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [March 9, 2011, 11:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3rd-cousin-twice-removed-etc/574106 "2011-03-09T23:51:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![md2000](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/73ab20/32.png) [@md2000](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/md2000)\
**Post date:** [March 12, 2011, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3rd-cousin-twice-removed-etc/574106/21 "2011-03-12T22:20:58Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> BTW, is there any better term for my maternally maternal great-grandmother?

Meemaw squared?

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**Author:** ![Bryan\_Ekers](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bryan_ekers/32/183_2.png) [@Bryan\_Ekers](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bryan_Ekers)\
**Post date:** [March 13, 2011, 6:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/3rd-cousin-twice-removed-etc/574106/22 "2011-03-13T06:25:46Z")

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> [@BigT](#):
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> No, it isn’t. In all other situations, my relationship to you is not required to be the same as your relation to me. If I am your parent, you are my son or daughter. If I am your brother, you are either my brother or sister. If I am your nephew, you are my aunt or uncle. But, if I am your (any type of) cousin, then you are my (same type of) cousin.

I don’t understand your objection to my post, if that’s what it is.

As relationship to B is the same as B’s relationship to C. Musicat may have _thought_ “the lineage is quite different”, but it isn’t.

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