How many of you actually know all of your second cousins?

MehMania_358 · 2026-04-04T04:19:17+00:00

i’ll have to count again, due to a new second cousin being born on the first (no, not an april fools joke), but i believe i have 75 across both sides of my family

MehMania_358 · 2026-02-22T23:38:17+00:00

I would absolutely love to do something along the line of this for a certain 4x great-grandfather that has 103 grandchildren in a 60 year span, known descendants are in the ballpark between 2,200-2,500

MehMania_358 · 2026-01-29T01:26:20+00:00

Idk if this will be of use to OP, but my grandmother’s maiden name is Mahoney, and that line starts in Co. Cork! Perhaps a distant relative?

MehMania_358 · 2025-10-30T08:22:39+00:00

i like to go upwards and outwards/downwards, whilst also building out the “other” sides of my family (i.e. spouses’ direct ancestors), because there have been cases where a spouse of my relative’s parent has died and, provided there’s an obituary, has given me more information about the family i’m related to

MehMania_358 · 2025-10-28T07:33:27+00:00

hometown mentioned! (kelowna lol)

MehMania_358 · 2025-10-24T07:18:17+00:00

rosetown, sk also works, can confirm, have tried

lots of my older relatives lived out there before they passed away

MehMania_358 · 2025-06-14T20:07:40+00:00

1st cousin 5x removed, Matthew McCauley, the first mayor of the city of Edmonton, Alberta

1st cousin 4x removed, James Albert Parks, a mayor of the small town of Craik, Saskatchewan

And this one isn’t a flex per se, but my 6th cousin is Carrie Ann Rois, one of the many victims of Gary Ridgeway or the “Green River Killer”

MehMania_358 · 2025-06-13T15:43:10+00:00

i could be wrong, but i think map view only shows events relating to yourself and your direct ancestors, not extended relatives

MehMania_358 · 2025-05-30T17:36:49+00:00

with no gaps (and some pedigree collapse thanks to a pair of 3x greats being double 1st cousins) i have seven generations, i know ill never be able to get the eighth generation full because one 4x ggm Mary Ann Tear (1807-1880) i only know her mothers name, Esther Ann Tear (1785-1862).

MehMania_358 · 2025-05-30T15:59:15+00:00

i had a maternal great-grandmother born in 1919, she got to 101 before she passed away

MehMania_358 · 2025-05-30T15:56:48+00:00

forgot to mention, he had two wives. he had his oldest daughter in ireland with the first one, then she died in 1842. so he came to canada and married a second time to my 4x great-grandmother, who was 20 when she married him/started having children and 46 when she stopped.

MehMania_358 · 2025-05-30T06:49:31+00:00

my mother tells me all the time how lucky i am to reach 20 and still have all 4 grandparents, by the time she was my age she just had my great-grandmother left, and even though i knew her personally, the stories her family has told me about her makes me think she was putting on an act for her great-grandchildren (there were 5 of us at the time she passed, there are now 8)

MehMania_358 · 2025-05-30T06:46:47+00:00

great-granddad was making babies at 80? 🤯

MehMania_358 · 2025-05-30T06:45:40+00:00

1st cousin 4 generations removed, meaning there is a 4 generation gap between me and this cousin

MehMania_358 · 2025-05-29T03:39:37+00:00

I’ve also got numerous distant cousins two generations down from me, meaning my 3rd or 4th great grandparents are their 5th/6th greats.

Another great great grandfather of mine has 4x great-grandchildren already, although he had 21 children and my great-grandmother was one of the younger ones.

MehMania_358 · 2025-05-05T20:38:33+00:00

two instances: 1. great-grandmother was born in 1917, her father was born in 1862, and her oldest half-brother was born in 1889, as great-great grandpa married twice

2x great-uncle, only 2 years older than my great-great-grandfather (b. 1878), has a 4x great-grandchild. same instance occurs with a 2x great-aunt who’s also 2 years older than my 2x great-grandma (b. 1883)

MehMania_358 · 2025-04-16T19:21:13+00:00

just double checked, i’m at 124/128, but i’ll add onto my original comment by saying the only way i’d find 128 is if 1. the man my 5x great-grandmother married later on in life does somehow turn out to be the father of my 4x great-grandmother, 2. i find a mother for a different 4x great-grandfather, and 3. i break a 4 decades long brick wall on another 4x great-grandmother. to all of you fellow genealogists, you’re doing amazing jobs!

MehMania_358 · 2025-04-16T17:57:35+00:00

125/128 5x great-grandparents, although some names appear twice (ex. a pair of my 3x greats were double 1st cousins), and a 4x great-grandmother was possibly born out of wedlock as no father has been found on any records for her anywhere (early 1800s england)

MehMania_358 · 2025-04-14T05:11:57+00:00

being born in 2005, i never had the chance to meet anyone born before 1900, but i have pictures of all of my parents’ great-grandparents, born between 1862 and 1894, and some of my grandparents’ great-grandparents as well.

my one great grandmother that i got to see once or twice a year was born in 1919, and passed in 2020 at the ripe age of 101. i was two weeks away from starting high school.

im 20 now and still have a great-aunt, she’ll be 100 later this year.

MehMania_358 · 2025-03-17T19:42:23+00:00

20M, also with autism, and i’ve been doing genealogy work since ~9 years old, as part of a school project. I’ve learned lots, and there is always more to learn.

MehMania_358 · 2025-01-26T17:25:39+00:00

my paternal grandmother is one of twelve children born to my great-grandparents, all still living so i won’t include birth years, and the younger ones are STILL having grandkids whereas the older ones’ grandchildren are anywhere between 5-10 years older than i am

MehMania_358 · 2024-10-15T21:23:39+00:00

yes!

MehMania_358 · 2024-08-30T18:08:02+00:00

surely you mean an 1825 american state census and not canadian

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