I found a chart (here), and now my life is complete. :-)

So my mom's first cousin is my 1st cousin once removed, and her kids are my 2nd cousins.
I really do feel better knowing this!
Lori
ab·surd (b-sûrd, -zûrd) adj. 1. Ridiculously incongruous or unreasonable. 2. Inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense 3. Of, relating to, or manifesting the view that there is no order or value in human life or in the universe. N. The condition or state in which humans exist in a meaningless, irrational universe wherein people's lives have no purpose or meaning. [Latin absurdus, out of tune, absurd : ab-, intensive pref.; see ab-1 + surdus, deaf, muffled.]
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Mr Nag and I were having a conversation about this yesterday. Now our questions have been answered. Thanks.
We are, of course, assuming that the chart is correct...
:-)
Glad to be of help!
That is a handy chart. I'd learned a few years back that the cousins we'd always called "second cousins" were really "first cousins once removed," but I never knew how the whole system worked.
I have to admit, though, that I find something mildly unsettling about the term "once removed."
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