# First Cousins **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 10, 2010, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185 "2010-11-10T15:59:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 17\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![missred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/missred/32/14096_2.png) [@missred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/missred)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/41 "2010-11-11T04:27:20Z")
1. Paternal range: 38-60 (22 years) Maternal range: 33-66 (33 years) 2. Paternal: 12\* + 3 step Maternal: 26\* + 2 step 3. Paternal: 3 adopted by the same parents, not sure about their bio families, one uncle had 3 step-children from his second marriage. Maternal: 1 adopted, not sure about his bio family, one set of cousins had 2 half-sibs from their father’s first marriage and 1 more from his third. - There are 3 double first cousins, so there’s a total of 35 cousins and 5 steps. In my own family, there are 6 (with 4 still living) plus two foster siblings. In other words, there are a whole mess of us when we get together. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Rala](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/8797f3/32.png) [@Rala](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rala)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 5:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/42 "2010-11-11T05:57:00Z")
1. What is the age range of your first cousins? Oldest is 27, youngest are 11. (The two youngest are twins.) 2. How many first cousins do you have? Seven. Including me and my siblings, there are 10 of us. All my first cousins are on dad’s side. 3. Among your first cousins, how many of them (that you know of) have siblings that are not “full siblings”? By that I mean cousins of yours whose own siblings are not from the same two parents as theirs. (I’ll explain in my own case below.) None. ---
**Author:** ![LateComer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/b5ac83/32.png) [@LateComer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LateComer)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/43 "2010-11-11T06:06:33Z")
1. What is the age range of your first cousins? between 12 and 48 (36 years) 1. How many first cousins do you have? 16 maternal side, 3 paternal side (I have one sister) so 19. 1. Among your first cousins, how many of them (that you know of) have siblings that are not “full siblings”? By that I mean cousins of yours whose own siblings are not from the same two parents as theirs. 2 cousins are half sisters (my aunt had one, divorced, remarried and had the other daughter). ---
**Author:** ![thirdwarning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecccb3/32.png) [@thirdwarning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thirdwarning)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 6:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/44 "2010-11-11T06:14:37Z")
Age range 62 - 81? So a little under twenty years. How many? 7 current, 1 deceased Any other/non-full siblings? No It was my dad who had the large family, with the two sets of half-siblings. But still all first cousins to those cousins, since my mom was an only child, so there weren’t any on her side. ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 7:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/45 "2010-11-11T07:40:08Z")
Ages: 28 - 52 (24 years) Number: 7 Half-cousins: None. I have two half-brothers, however (aged 27 and 24). ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 8:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/46 "2010-11-11T08:06:25Z")
1. What is the age range of your first cousins? From 15 to 35. (20 years) 1. How many first cousins do you have? 10: two sets of four, and a set of two. 1. Among your first cousins, how many of them (that you know of) have siblings that are not “full siblings”? 1. That’s two sets of four each. One is a remarriage with a new child, while the other is a remarriage with adopted children. ---
**Author:** ![Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hilarity_n.suze/32/6223_2.png) [@Hilarity\_N.Suze](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hilarity_N.Suze)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 8:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/47 "2010-11-11T08:26:23Z")
1. What is the age range of your first cousins? Most of my first cousins from my mother’s side are baby boomers. A couple of outliers were born before the war. My cousins from my fathers’ side were born in the 20s and 30s, they are mostly dead and have been all my life, and I don’t even know how many of them there were. I think 4; I could be wrong. 2. How many first cousins do you have? 16 3. Among your first cousins, how many of them (that you know of) have siblings that are not “full siblings”? By that I mean cousins of yours whose own siblings are not from the same two parents as theirs. (I’ll explain in my own case below.) One of my aunts married a man who’d been married before. I think he had two children. My cousins didn’t really have a relationship with them (nor did my uncle, but he didn’t particularly have a relationship with my cousins, either, or anybody else). My husband has one first cousin, 18 years younger than he is. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 8:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/48 "2010-11-11T08:50:39Z")
1. What is the age range of your first cousins? Born 1967-1976; currently 43 to 34. The peak of the Spanish baby boom was 1968, which saw three of us being born (yours truly and one cousin on each side). 1976 got three again (Littlebro and two other boys from our paternal side, that was one busy year for baptisms in that side of the family :)). 2. How many first cousins do you have? 11 (2 maternal, 9 paternal), plus the bros and me makes 14. 3. Among your first cousins, how many of them (that you know of) have siblings that are not “full siblings”? None. You have to go down to my own generation to find someone who fathered a child out of wedlock and there haven’t been any divorces so far. My mother’s sister got a divorce and remarried, but she also had a tubal ligation between both. Going up to second cousins makes the age spread only a little bit bigger (1966-1980or1981), while going up to more than 40 people: no known half-sibs, and none of my cousin’s cousins have any half-sibs either. I do know a family where a couple got married, he died, she remarried, she died, he remarried, he died, she remarried, both were still alive when I knew them: four marriages, a total of 12 children, and don’t try telling any of them they weren’t siblings or their children that they weren’t cousins unless you were fond of waking up in the ER asking whether someone had jotted down that truck’s plates. ---
**Author:** ![Cazzle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cazzle/32/75_2.png) [@Cazzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cazzle)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/49 "2010-11-11T11:40:32Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > 1. What is the age range of your first cousins? Oldest is 41, youngest is 12. The age spans are 22 years on Mum’s side and 23 years on Dad’s side. > [@](#): > > 1. How many first cousins do you have? I’ve had 15 first cousins born but one of them was stillborn, so 14 living. My brother and I take that up to 16 (or 17 depending which figure you count) > [@](#): > > 1. Among your first cousins, how many of them (that you know of) have siblings that are not “full siblings”? By that I mean cousins of yours whose own siblings are not from the same two parents as theirs. None. All my aunts and uncles were married before having chidlren and all are still married except one (and he won’t be having children with his second partner). The children of my cousins are a different story… ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/50 "2010-11-11T18:58:18Z")
I posted in the other thread that I have 18 cousins, but technically three of them aren’t blood-related. This is always kind of hard to describe with out a chart… my mother has two half-siblings, and **they** have another half-sister, who does not share a parent with my mother. We don’t quibble about details like this in my family, though - as far as we’re concerned, they’re all my aunts, uncles and cousins. Since the thread requires a common grandparent, I’ll \* the family members that don’t qualify. Both of my parents are the babies of their families, by a long shot. Dad’s sister is eight years older, and mom’s siblings are 16, 12 and five\* years older. All of my aunts and uncles (that are still alive) have been married for more than 50 years, so there are no half-siblings within their families. I’m 39, brother will be 34 in less than a month. Interestingly, my very oldest cousin, if she were still alive, would be 56, and my very youngest\*, if he were still alive, would be 33. There’s a third one that died (same family as the oldest), he’d be 52 if he was still around. As for the survivors, most of them are in their late 40s and early 50s. I’m not sure exactly how old the oldest is, I want so say 53 or 54. The youngest is 37 (and the only cousin younger than me). Both of these come from the same family, the oldest and youngest of eight kids. ---
**Author:** ![dhkendall](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a9adbd/32.png) [@dhkendall](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dhkendall)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 7:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/51 "2010-11-11T19:23:23Z")
These are all from my mother’s side of the family, I still don’t know that much about my dad’s side. I know I have cousins from there, and they’re all probably much older than me, as my dad is 20 years younger than his nearest sibling, but they’re all in other provinces and don’t keep in touch much. (Don’t get me wrong, they all love each other and they us, but I just don’t hear much from them) 1. My maternal grandparents had 10 grandchildren; my sister and I are the oldest of them, which leaves me with 8 cousins - 4 boys, four girls (two of the families (three if you count ours) are a boy-girl pair, one is a pair of twin boys, and one has two girls). They range in age from 26 to 32. My sister is 36 (37 next month) and I’m 38. (And I remember when most of them were born. :() 1. See above. 2. All of them are full siblings, except two of them are adopted (one of my aunts could not conceive, so she adopted a boy and a girl). ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/52 "2010-11-11T19:54:58Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > Interestingly, my very oldest cousin, if she were still alive, would be 56, […] You know what I just realized? I totally lied here. It sort of slipped my mind that this cousin actually came into the family as an infant when her mother married my mom’s brother. So not only did I lie about there being no half-siblings in my generation, this cousin doesn’t even technically qualify for the thread. :smack: In my defense, my uncle adopted her immediately, so he was the only father she ever knew. Her lineage was something I hadn’t thought about in a long time. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/angel_of_the_lord/32/2949_2.png) [@Angel\_of\_the\_Lord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_the_Lord)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 10:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/53 "2010-11-11T22:04:15Z")
1.) 27 - 21. 2.) Two first cousins. So I guess that’s 27 **&** 21. 3.) Nope, but my sister and I have a half-brother. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 11:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/54 "2010-11-11T23:01:56Z")
1 My youngest first cousin is 29 (maternal) and the oldest is about 57 (paternal) 2 12 total 3 all full siblings ---
**Author:** ![kiz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/7feea3/32.png) [@kiz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kiz)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/55 "2010-11-11T23:57:11Z")
1. Roughly mid 50s to early-mid 70s. 2. Five – two paternal, three maternal. 3. No half siblings/cousins – everyone is full-blooded. My family is rather fractured for reasons I have yet to untangle. We cut off communication with my father’s side after his passing, which was almost 40 years ago. The older cousin from that side already had children much older than me. The younger daughter had a daughter my age. I haven’t seen her since I was 14 or 15. Honestly, I wouldn’t know any of them now if I tripped over them. On my mother’s side…lot of family angst, I don’t know. My oldest cousin has lived in a distant state since I was a child. The last time I saw him was probably 20 years ago. The middle cousin lives somewhat near me, but we don’t speak. My youngest cousin – the one closest to my age – disappeared shortly after my aunt died back sometime in the 90s. No forwarding address, nothing. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [November 11, 2010, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/56 "2010-11-11T23:59:10Z")
> [@Zeldar](#): > > 1. What is the age range of your first cousins? > > 2. How many first cousins do you have? > > 3. Among your first cousins, how many of them (that you know of) have siblings that are not “full siblings”? By that I mean cousins of yours whose own siblings are not from the same two parents as theirs. (I’ll explain in my own case below.) 1. 19 to 29, 10 years. 2. Three. 3. Zero if you mean partial-blood siblings. Three of them have a step-sister. ---
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [November 12, 2010, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185/57 "2010-11-12T00:58:29Z")
1. they were born between 1946 and 1964, and the oldest and youngest are siblings. 2. I have 24 first cousins 3. my aunt on one side was widowed, and had 1 child with her first husband and 3 with her second, and on the other side my aunt had 4 children with her first husband and 3 with her second. I also have 1 adopted cousin. It’s been years since I saw them, and most likely wouldn’t recognize them if I saw them on the street. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cousins/560185.md?page=2)