How prolific? 
ZERO for me. Mom and Dad were both ‘only’ children.
I put 16-20 but frankly I’m not sure. I have four on my Dad’s side but my Mum is the eldest of eight. I have cousins I wouldn’t recognise in the street. When my Mother relays a family story I have to ask her what my connection to them is.
“Had” in the biblical sense?
Well, there is that aunt in West Virginia that we visited one summer …
I’ve got first cousins that I’ve never met. My dad’s brothers & sisters were 8 years older than him. They lived in other states and raised families.
There were 7 first cousins on my mom’s side. She had two sisters. I’ve met all those first cousins.
I estimated 14 total.
20 on the nose. And my grandparents came from families with many siblings who were even more prolific, so the second cousin count take a really big jump. Because the family tended to stay in the same town, routine family gatherings included all the seconds and thirds, so it was a bit of an effort to count up the 20 first cousins and make sure I wasn’t mixing up anyone’s parents.
I have only the one kid, and it was really, really odd when I realized that my brother’s children will only have one cousin. ONE!
12, of whom 11 survive. The one who died, a couple of years ago at age 55, is also the only one I never met.
Whaddaya mean, how many first cousins have I had?
Got something against West Virginia? :mad:
None. My father was an only child; my mother had five half-siblings, and I guess their dozen or so children would be my half-cousins. Right?
The several places I have tried for a more comprehensive definition all say
or words to that same effect.
I have one first cousin who has a half-brother and half-sister, I suppose the term for my relation to her is half-cousin, but I have never thought of her as anything but my first cousin. She has children so I guess that half- thing works into the terms for my kids’ relation to her kids.
I had 11 paternal cousins and 50 maternal ones. My mother came from a family of 12 with 10 surviving to adulthood. My father did as well, but they weren’t nearly as prolific. Five of his siblings had no children (that they claimed) at all.
15, of which 11 are still alive. One drowned as a toddler in a neighbor’s pond back in the 1960s. The rest reached adulthood.
Interesting. Knew there was a slew but never actual tallied them up. 34.
Seven total, counting the child that my aunt gave up for adoption who “found” her as an adult. I figured if we weren’t supposed to count children “adopted in,” then we must be supposed to count children “adopted out.”
Mary had a little sheep
With the sheep she did sleep,
The sheep turned out to be a ram,
Mary had a little lamb.
16 that I know of. I say ‘know of’ because we found out about 1 when he was around 16. It’s highly possible that there are more we don’t know about.
My father had 8 brothers and three sisters. He couldn’t name them all without using his fingers, and often not even then. I know one name of one uncle for sure, but haven’t even a hint of how many cousins were/are floating about.
But I guessed 21-30
11, though one of them died as a baby, so 10.
Edit: Oh, I forgot to count my dad’s side of the family. I don’t know because even before I stopped being in contact with my dad when I was like 8 we didn’t know about one of his siblings, but I think the aunt we did know about had 2-3 kids.
Probably about 15. Five from my mother’s side, and probably ten from my father’s side, though I’ve only met four.
One on my mom’s side, a dozen or so on my dad’s side.