# Our Grandmothers were sisters: what are we?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-grandmothers-were-sisters-what-are-we/788335>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [June 7, 2017, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-grandmothers-were-sisters-what-are-we/788335 "2017-06-07T04:44:14Z")\
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**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2017, 10:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-grandmothers-were-sisters-what-are-we/788335/21 "2017-06-07T22:52:19Z")

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> [@Pleonast](#):
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> People who share a parent are siblings. People who share a grandparent are cousins. People who share a great-grandparent are second cousins. People who share an Nth-great-grandparent are (N+1)th cousins.

No, cousins are the children of siblings. The children of my mom’s sister(my aunt) are my cousins. Grandchildren of my grandfathers brother(my great uncle) are my second cousins(as stated above). Of course here in the South usually any degree of cousin is just called cousin.

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**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\
**Post date:** [June 8, 2017, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/our-grandmothers-were-sisters-what-are-we/788335/22 "2017-06-08T00:05:55Z")

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> [@rsat3acr](#):
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> No, cousins are the children of siblings. The children of my mom’s sister(my aunt) are my cousins.

They are- and by definition they share at least one grandparent with you. Because if your mom and her sister didn’t have at least one parent in common, they wouldn’t be sisters.

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