If you’re like us, meeting long-lost cousin Bill at your family reunion is nice and all, but hearing he’s your “second cousin once removed” leaves you just as confused as ever.

To put it into perspective, while first cousins share grandparents, second cousins connect a generation further back: the great-grandparents. Imagine it like this: If you're looking at your own family ...

When a set of siblings from one family marries a set of siblings from another family, their kids are not only first cousins; they're also double first cousins. These lucky kids have both sets of ...

You and your first cousins share one set of grandparents. (A “cousin-german,” by the way, comes from “cousin germain,” which is French for first cousin.) Double First Cousins ...

Fourth and fifth cousins follow the same progression. Double Cousins: When two siblings in one family marry two siblings from another family and each couple has a child. These are called double ...