1st & 2nd cousins, once & twice removed!?!

Second cousins are you cousins kids i think.
So millie is second cousin to your cousin

I've never understood the whole removed thing?

 

I think that 1st cousins are then your babies 2 cousins and then their children are 3rd cousins etc etc, so your parents 1st cousins are your 2nd cousins and your childs 3rd cousins
I dunno what the 'removed' bit is either

 

you + your parents' neices/nephews = 1st cousins

your children + your 1st cousins = 1st cousins once removed (i.e. removed by 1 generation)

your grandchildren + your 1st cousins = 1st cousins twice removed (i.e. removed by two generations)

your great grandchildren + your 1st cousins = 1st cousins three times removed (i.e. removed by three generations)


and it works vice versa, so:

you + your 1st cousins' children = 1st cousin once removed




your children + your first cousins' children = 2nd cousins (as they are both the same generation, but are not first cousins)

your grandchildren + your first cousins' grandchildren = 3rd cousins


so your children + your 1st cousin's grandchildren, would be 2nd cousins once removed, for example.

hope this helps

 

I have been wondering this to as my cousin has a daughter who is 8 weeks older than my son.

Thanks for the answer