As you work on your family tree, you know it covers your direct lineage. However, there are aunts-uncles and especially cousins to consider. Using this chart done by Alice J. Ramsey in 1987 might help make it clearer of who would be a cousin, or a 2nd cousin or a 3rd cousin twice...
When it comes to figuring out if you are “removed” from a cousin, you still count generations. It might actually be helpful to use a chart to do this, as it is easier to see how many generations removed you are from someone if you draw it on some paper. ...
Directly below this Color Cluster chart, I added the names of the first twenty-five4th cousins. For each cousin, I looked at AncestryDNA’s “Shared Matches” and determined which 2nd/3rd cousins they were matching. I colored in the appropriate cell and labeled the cell with the number of ...