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How Many Cousins Do You Know You Have?

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Randy from Genea-Musings says: 1)  Take both sets of your grandparents and figure out how many first cousins you have, and how many first cousins removed (a child or grandchild of a first cousin) you have. 2)  Extra Credit:  Take all four sets of your great-grandparents and figure out how many second cousins you have, and how many second cousins removed you have. HINT:  Make a Descendants Chart with your genealogy software program! 3)  Tell us the grandparents and great-grandparents names, but don't give the name of living cousins unless you want to.   4)  Are there any of those lines that you don't know all of the cousins names?  Do you care?   5)  Tell us about them in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Facebook or Google+ post of your own.  Be sure to drop a comment to this post to link to your work.  Well, if this isn't a good way of checking your family tree is up to date, I don'...