Who is the daughter of a cousin - the intricacies of kinship

2024 Author: Priscilla Miln | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 00:21

In recent decades, it has even become popular not only to be interested in one's roots and ancestors, but also to find out and clarify who is a godfather, matchmaker, brother-in-law, and so on. It turns out that a family can be much larger, given all the intricacies of the fate of its members.

People were especially interested in the question of the depth of family ties. For example, cousins, second cousins and brothers. But what about next? Are there any fourth cousins or what to call them? Or who is your cousin's daughter?

Terminology

Determining family ties has always been a rather difficult matter, since families in our country have traditionally been large. And even now, when all relatives gather at one big festive table or are just planning to do it, it is not always clear who is a matchmaker or brother to whom. But nevertheless, consanguineous or consolidated, but this is relatives.

It should be taken as an axiom that the first married couple known by name, from which the family descends, are called progenitors.

Otherterms require more specific explanation:

1. Blood relatives.
2. Not blood relatives - brothers-in-law.

In blood family ties, there is an order of kinship, determined by the proximity of the side branches in the family tree. That is, you can be blood, but distant relatives - brothers, sisters, aunts, grandmothers, etc.

Blood relatives and not so

Blood relatives include all those who are related by the real fact of birth from one of the family members.

And those who came from other families are not consanguineous or stepbrothers. They are also called brother-in-laws. Blood relatives include:

• relatives;
• cousins;
• second cousins;
• brother/sister;
• uncle/aunt;
• nephews;
• grandma/grandfather;
• grandchildren, etc.

And these are brother-in-law, that is, not blood relatives:

• son-in-law is called the husband of a daughter or sister;
• sister-in-law, zolova, zolovischa - husband's sister;
• daughter-in-law - son's wife (for his father);
• godfather - godfather and mother in relation to the parents of the godson and each other;
• matchmaker, matchmaker or matchmakers - father and mother of a wife or husband in relation to the parents of the second spouse;
• daughter-in-law is the wife of a son or brother;
• stepson or stepdaughter - step son or daughter in relation to one of the spouses;
• stepfather is the husband of the mother of the children, but not their own father;
• stepmother is the new wife of the father, but not the mother of his children;
• mother-in-law and father-in-law are husband's parents;
• father-in-law and mother-in-law arewife's parents;
• primak - son-in-law who came to live in the house of his wife or her parents;
• brother-in-law - wife's half-brother;
• brother-in-law - husband's only-begotten or half-begotten brother.

Kinship ties

How close (or not so) people are determined by the distance of kinship. There are relatives of the first order, the second and so on. This kindred proximity is considered along the vertical of the family tree. That is:

The first priority is parents, children, sisters and brothers (consanguineous and uterine), grandchildren.

Second - grandparents, nephews and nieces.

Third in order of relationship - aunts, uncles, cousins and brothers.

Fourth - kinship through great-grandparents - all second cousins.

Fifth line - Relatives through great-grandparents, including great-grandchildren.

Sixth line - great aunts, uncles, great great grandchildren and nephews (for example, the daughter of a cousin).

Such a division allows you to determine who, to whom and by whom. Thus, asking the question in this context in the circle of a large family, who is the daughter of a cousin, can be determined according to this scheme. This is the furthest line among blood relatives.

Sisters and brothers

Who are sisters and brothers? These are daughters or sons of the same parents, if relatives. If cousins, then a cousin (brother) is the daughter (son) of a brother or sister of a father or mother.

Now let's try to understand who the cousin's daughter is, who she is to me. That is, this is a child from the daughter of my relatives uncle or aunt. This is already considered kinship from the second tribe (generation). And a second cousin is already the third generation in descending order.

According to one of the Russian terminologies, such a sister is called a "sister". There is also a tendency to refer to all cousins, second cousins, etc. as cousins (cousin or cousin).

If this is the daughter of a cousin of mom or dad, then she is not their cousin. In this version, for the parents, she is a great niece, and for their children, a second cousin.

If this is the daughter of a cousin of a grandmother or grandfather, then the latter is a second cousin, although a distant blood relative for dad and mom. The first is their fourth cousin.

So who is my cousin's daughter? Is there a difference between intimacy and kinship in this case? There is definitely a consanguinity in this option, but regardless of whether the daughter of a brother or sister from the side of the father or mother is called a niece. And if this is the daughter of a cousin or brother, then the niece, respectively, is a cousin.

Necessity

Unfortunately, we do not always remember family ties in order to strengthen or increase the family circle of loved ones. The presence of a we althy relative in one of the branches of the family tree gives a rather strong impetus to determine the proximity of kinship in the event of an inheritance. And here, as they say, the Civil Code will help if there is no will.

In any case, the compilation of a generictree, the search for distant branches of relatives is not only fashionable, exciting, but also useful. After all, every family necessarily has at least one mysteriously lyrical relationship story, which can serve as a plot for a fashionable novel.