# Help me label these kinships **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 18, 2014, 5:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-label-these-kinships/704975 "2014-11-18T17:44:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-label-these-kinships/704975/21 "2014-11-22T18:51:53Z")
> [@septimus](#): > > Churchill was only seven years older than FDR. Generations are not constant size; my wife is younger than her cousin’s children. After many generations, such “discrepancies” can become quite large. Yeah. My father had 9 older siblings - so the youngest of my first cousins are almost a decade older than me, and the oldest of them are (or were) older than my Dad. The kids that were my age when I was a kid were my first cousins once removed. ---
**Author:** ![Ranger\_Jeff](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranger_jeff/32/2065_2.png) [@Ranger\_Jeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranger_Jeff)\ **Post date:** [November 22, 2014, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-label-these-kinships/704975/22 "2014-11-22T21:37:36Z")
Teddy Roosevelt and FDR were 5th cousins. Eleanor Roosevelt was Teddy’s niece and therefore, FDR’s 5th cousin once removed. And his wife. ---
**Author:** ![Monty](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/monty/32/47_2.png) [@Monty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monty)\ **Post date:** [November 23, 2014, 3:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-label-these-kinships/704975/23 "2014-11-23T03:28:17Z")
Perhaps [this chart of cousins](http://flowingdata.com/2014/11/05/chart-of-cousins/) will help. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/help-me-label-these-kinships/704975.md?page=1)