What's a Second Cousin Once Removed?

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  • čas přidán 23. 08. 2024
  • The family tree get's confusing really fast. Here's a simple breakdown of how you're related to others in your family, no matter how distant they are to you.
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    Narration: Whitney Owen
    Music: "Blue Skies" by Silent Partner (CZcams Audio Library)
    #cousin #familyhistory #b3d

Komentáře • 4,4K

  • @alisya.z.d1905
    @alisya.z.d1905 Před 5 lety +3286

    PLOT TWIST
    He’s adopted

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 5 lety +42

      The adopted virgin. Lol!

    • @Dextamartijn
      @Dextamartijn Před 5 lety +16

      I know a couple in my community that are first cousins but he was adopted.

    • @WhoIsJaiK
      @WhoIsJaiK Před 5 lety +15

      I mean...you’d still have a cousin...even if you’re adopted....but iight..

    • @georgesdinosaur7070
      @georgesdinosaur7070 Před 5 lety

      OOF

    • @ivang3021
      @ivang3021 Před 5 lety +15

      That's why he is blue

  • @wuznab5109
    @wuznab5109 Před 6 lety +3451

    I died at nibbling.

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 5 lety +40

      Pibling.

    • @AD-cy4vj
      @AD-cy4vj Před 5 lety +9

      Same

    • @MelB868
      @MelB868 Před 5 lety +33

      Yes I just call them nieces and nephews I never heard of nibbling. I don’t have any nephews just nieces they are 9 and 6 years old.

    • @susmitadey9757
      @susmitadey9757 Před 5 lety +6

      @@josephclegg3562 what's a Pibling? 🤔

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 5 lety +22

      @@susmitadey9757 a pibling is kinda like the opposite of nibling. Okay you know nibling is a niece or nephew. A pibling is your uncle or aunt. In other words your parents' sibling.

  • @carlos_adventures9018
    @carlos_adventures9018 Před 5 lety +1175

    3:26
    Narrator: Bob just doesn’t know who they are
    Also narrator: or does he?
    **Vsauce music plays**

    • @_KyleRC_
      @_KyleRC_ Před 5 lety +29

      You see bob...

    • @chippy_lol6958
      @chippy_lol6958 Před 5 lety +5

      I didn’t get that can someone eXpLaIn

    • @gaara4667
      @gaara4667 Před 5 lety +7

      Chippy _LOL are you serious????

    • @damio2767
      @damio2767 Před 5 lety +13

      hey vsauce, micheal here.

    • @garciafever
      @garciafever Před 5 lety +2

      How do we go about discovering our ancestry? Well first we take a look at who you have alive in your family...

  • @emir4126
    @emir4126 Před 5 lety +381

    When you get rich, whole world starts to acknowledge that you are their cousin

    • @javio5687
      @javio5687 Před 5 lety +41

      "I'm your sixth cousin twice removed. I'm related to you so give me some money."

    • @garciafever
      @garciafever Před 5 lety +17

      @@javio5687
      Actually the correct response should be:
      "Let me borrow a dollar."

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 5 lety +7

      My rich cousin once removed. Lol!

    • @abdultoyibsodikin2398
      @abdultoyibsodikin2398 Před 4 lety +3

      That's true happens in reality

    • @seusstories
      @seusstories Před 4 lety +2

      Rockefellers and the British royal family know. 😎

  • @firenationfiles2063
    @firenationfiles2063 Před 6 lety +2016

    There was a kid in my class who found out that one of his classmates was his second cousin by doing a family tree project...

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 5 lety +220

      Was he removed?

    • @tallerstond8105
      @tallerstond8105 Před 5 lety +219

      he was definitely removed.

    • @yiopanda6014
      @yiopanda6014 Před 5 lety +164

      Reminds me of this girl that I went onto school with. Second cousins with my GYM TEACHER. Very weird, but very interesting too.

    • @sgsnake2x
      @sgsnake2x Před 5 lety +47

      Fire Nation Files dude I knew my first, second, third, fourth up to 8 but my first, second and third are the ones I get along with the best. I don’t understand how families break up so easily

    • @christianquinones9347
      @christianquinones9347 Před 5 lety +80

      In reality all of us are related in one way or another hence why we are of the same species, we are all humans and we all have the same great common ancestor, but we will never acknowledge that someone is familly unless they are immediate family

  • @TheOneWhoMightBe
    @TheOneWhoMightBe Před 6 lety +598

    "Bob just doesn't know who they are. Or does he?"
    TELL ME YOUR SECRETS, BOB!

    • @loveshack6880
      @loveshack6880 Před 6 lety +2

      TheOneWhoMightBe Bernie a big commie

    • @ywhvyhvhxoactaktaykstayfre7009
      @ywhvyhvhxoactaktaykstayfre7009 Před 6 lety

      Yeah lol leave it to a sum1 who still has a Bernie pic up to say that, Bernie is part of that whole gross thing where they are bad to kids there s pictures of him when he's very young (appropriate pics) ((but creepy asf)) of him holding babies like golem and the ring

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 6 lety +1

      TheOneWhoMightBe Bob's secret is that he has been removed and can't get back.

    • @krististarr-wells9225
      @krististarr-wells9225 Před 5 lety

      Sounds like something vsauce would say

    • @tallerstond8105
      @tallerstond8105 Před 5 lety +1

      FBI OPEN UP

  • @liyushiferaw
    @liyushiferaw Před 5 lety +797

    or eliminate all confusion and call everyone your cousin even if they aren't blood-related.

    • @weiwei4804
      @weiwei4804 Před 5 lety +67

      Well hello there, cousin

    • @TetrisKing
      @TetrisKing Před 5 lety +87

      We are all related you are just my 1 millionth cousin 1 thousand removed.

    • @mooju1ce
      @mooju1ce Před 5 lety +26

      what if you dont know who your cousins are and end up marrying them 0.0

    • @TetrisKing
      @TetrisKing Před 5 lety +37

      @@mooju1ce Sweet home Alabama Intensifies.

    • @linwoodvalentine7693
      @linwoodvalentine7693 Před 5 lety +5

      Hey primos!

  • @gamjam7065
    @gamjam7065 Před 5 lety +837

    Basically, we're all cousins.

  • @anikam8658
    @anikam8658 Před 7 lety +1003

    I lost my shit when she said "nibblings" 😭😭😭

    • @RaymondHng
      @RaymondHng Před 6 lety +68

      It's spelled "niblings". I hope you found your shit.

    • @russellfitzgerald2957
      @russellfitzgerald2957 Před 6 lety +3

      0:36

    • @natethegreat7967
      @natethegreat7967 Před 6 lety +7

      RaymondHng
      Captions has it spelled “nibblings”.

    • @RaymondHng
      @RaymondHng Před 6 lety +17

      "The gender-neutral term encompassing both nephews and nieces is _nibling_ ."
      en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nephew_and_niece
      _Nibbling_ , however, is a verb or gerund. _The mouse is nibbling on a peanut. Nibbling on snacks is fun._
      www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/nibbling

    • @TheTarrMan
      @TheTarrMan Před 6 lety +10

      I lost mine when she said "or does he?"

  • @Peter-bq4vf
    @Peter-bq4vf Před 6 lety +760

    All we know is that Bob ‘s still a virgin

    • @ywhvyhvhxoactaktaykstayfre7009
      @ywhvyhvhxoactaktaykstayfre7009 Před 6 lety +17

      Fudo we all know Bob is an incel

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 6 lety +17

      Fudo That's why he was removed.

    • @Dargonhuman
      @Dargonhuman Před 5 lety +11

      To be fair, that's not necessarily true, we just know he hasn't had kids of his own yet. He may just be very conscientious about using protection lol.

    • @gooddog6745
      @gooddog6745 Před 5 lety +4

      He just uses protection to avoid having a child like you

    • @gooddog6745
      @gooddog6745 Před 5 lety +1

      @densch123 no u

  • @ASLTheatre
    @ASLTheatre Před 5 lety +362

    I always thought “once removed” was about a divorce happening somewhere.

  • @BlueMysteryGaming
    @BlueMysteryGaming Před 5 lety +202

    Bob doesnt know who they are.. OR DOES HE?!?

  • @BlueValco
    @BlueValco Před 6 lety +488

    It started out so simple, then got so complex, so quickly...

    • @marthaloven9385
      @marthaloven9385 Před 6 lety +3

      That's accurate. That's also why it's so easy to find a cousin chart online to use to figure this out the first 1,000 or so times. I've found there are different styles of chart. Only 1 of them makes sense to me, but it's nice for the people who need a different style to actually understand the chart.

    • @peterrosqvist2480
      @peterrosqvist2480 Před 6 lety +6

      BlueValco, we’re related in someway or another. You’re probably my 18th cousin or something.

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 6 lety

      BlueValco If I was removed once, I wouldn't come back just to be removed again.

    • @tallerstond8105
      @tallerstond8105 Před 5 lety

      Because y’all are removable.

  • @samteinert106
    @samteinert106 Před 6 lety +410

    This only made me more confused

  • @ajshitshed
    @ajshitshed Před 4 lety +180

    Teacher: Don't worry, the test isn't confusing.
    The test:

    • @seusstories
      @seusstories Před 4 lety +3

      Rockefellers and the British royal family know. 😎

    • @admiralwolf7218
      @admiralwolf7218 Před 3 lety +3

      AJ the guy I got lost at first cousin once removed

    • @liammckenna7122
      @liammckenna7122 Před 3 lety

      @@admiralwolf7218 I got lost a nibling can you help me

    • @JosiahFickinger
      @JosiahFickinger Před 3 lety

      I want you to guess how it's possible to be a sibling and cousin to the same kind. It sounds weird, but not for cats.

  • @keliswickland7936
    @keliswickland7936 Před 5 lety +70

    The short answer:
    Your grandparent's sibling's child's child's child.

    • @Elegantsoirees
      @Elegantsoirees Před 5 lety +1

      I’m cackling

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 5 lety +1

      3rd cousins

    • @maxnatal4626
      @maxnatal4626 Před 5 lety +1

      Your 2nd Cousin once removed

    • @matiaspereira9382
      @matiaspereira9382 Před 4 lety +1

      A 2nd cousin once removed is the child of a 2nd cousin or the 2nd cousin of a parent

    • @coolguy2168
      @coolguy2168 Před 4 lety +1

      *Your parent's parent's sibling's child's child's child.
      Or your parent's parent's parent's sibling's child's child.

  • @suppaduppa7344
    @suppaduppa7344 Před 6 lety +536

    Bob is just like me
    Cant get a girlfriend

  • @linkpemonade00
    @linkpemonade00 Před 5 lety +1585

    What if your family Tree is a straight line?
    *Sweet home Alabama plays in distance.*

    • @rikiishitoru8885
      @rikiishitoru8885 Před 5 lety +136

      That'd be asexual reproduction

    • @linkpemonade00
      @linkpemonade00 Před 5 lety +42

      Grognak The Destroyer or it’d be called incest

    • @chelo2148
      @chelo2148 Před 5 lety +30

      straight line of two people smh why y’all gotta get so literal

    • @linkpemonade00
      @linkpemonade00 Před 5 lety +24

      Emigamerul *A straight line of two people*

    • @davidan95
      @davidan95 Před 5 lety +7

      Dayana Tejera *_Incestion_*

  • @jambie
    @jambie Před 4 lety +54

    This comment section:
    1%: DNA testing
    2%: Jokes
    97%: *ALABAMA*

  • @reginab3036
    @reginab3036 Před 5 lety +34

    When I met my dad I found out one of my friends in the first grade was related to me so I told her and she thought I was crazy but now we're best friends and closer than ever. I knew she was my cousin but now I know she's my second cousin.

  • @theking8356
    @theking8356 Před 7 lety +2032

    Bob really needs to start living life and having kids.

  • @CIoroxBIeach
    @CIoroxBIeach Před 6 lety +2009

    IM STILL CONFUSED

    • @marthaloven9385
      @marthaloven9385 Před 6 lety +5

      That's OK. It takes a while to get it down and understand it. I used a cousin chart like the one on this page postingfamilyroots.blog/2017/08/12/it-all-started-with-dna-results-using-relationship-charts/ for years before it made sense to me.
      Be patient with yourself and it will make sense in time. Assuming you want to understand it that is.

    • @AB-zs5px
      @AB-zs5px Před 6 lety +20

      I swear... you're in every comment section I see!

    • @contorthecreator2987
      @contorthecreator2987 Před 6 lety +3

      For some reason I fucking see you in almost comment section I go through

    • @TheEgg185
      @TheEgg185 Před 6 lety +3

      Hello Im Weird - Same. I see CloroxⓇ everywhere.

    • @DimpledNatural
      @DimpledNatural Před 6 lety +1

      Clorox Bleach me too!!

  • @usermania340
    @usermania340 Před 5 lety +129

    It's interesting to think that you don't know that maybe a certain stranger you just passed by could be your cousin or second cousin once removed or whatsoever.

    • @huangjunwei7211
      @huangjunwei7211 Před 4 lety +12

      I mean.... Everyone on Earth is technically connected via the same ancestors... Soooo in theory, you are always passing by your cousins everyday.....

    • @Lopaaz
      @Lopaaz Před 4 lety

      @@huangjunwei7211I don't have the same last name you have.

    • @MrJb713
      @MrJb713 Před 4 lety +6

      "he's my 30th cousin 25x removed"

    • @seusstories
      @seusstories Před 4 lety +1

      Rockefellers and the British royal family know. 😎

    • @seusstories
      @seusstories Před 4 lety +1

      3:25 Rockefellers and the British royal family know. 😎

  • @jazminakarainy
    @jazminakarainy Před 5 lety +65

    ima go up to somebody and say "hello twelfth cousin 7th removed"

  • @mirandalie4077
    @mirandalie4077 Před 6 lety +282

    Wait ... *pause*
    Niece and nephews are actually called *NIBLINGS*
    But we decided to call them nieces and nephews..!?!!?
    I’m moving.

    • @rmsgrey
      @rmsgrey Před 6 lety +18

      "niece" and "nephew" are the traditional terms; "nibling" is a more recent coinage (dating back only as far as 1951)

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 5 lety +8

      Miranda Lie Just like your uncles and your aunts are called piblings.

    • @Dargonhuman
      @Dargonhuman Před 5 lety +28

      Niblings sounds like something you'd get 4 or 6 of from the dollar menu at a fast food joint...

    • @pikachu.1569
      @pikachu.1569 Před 5 lety +4

      I am a 10 year old aunt :P

    • @mavenlives4279
      @mavenlives4279 Před 5 lety +3

      @@Dargonhuman like bacon wrapped tater-tots

  • @AV8RSam
    @AV8RSam Před 8 lety +1081

    my head hurts

    • @asmartbajan
      @asmartbajan Před 6 lety +8

      Lol. I _definitely_ need to watch this again (probably, several times), to get it clear in my head.

    • @Dr_V
      @Dr_V Před 6 lety +1

      It's a bit simpler where I live, first cousin's children are considered 2nd grade nephews (legally) or simply nephews (in everyday life).

    • @RaymondHng
      @RaymondHng Před 6 lety

      It is not easier or intuitive in Cantonese. czcams.com/video/A1HaZ4WLo50/video.html

    • @jocabulous
      @jocabulous Před 6 lety

      it makes me *T H I N C C*

    • @dissidentsaint1413
      @dissidentsaint1413 Před 6 lety

      Sam Richardson
      then stop hitting yourself.

  • @izzzyee
    @izzzyee Před 5 lety +102

    Bruh I’ve been calling my cousins kids my 2nd cousins lmaooo

    • @pepperducks9019
      @pepperducks9019 Před 5 lety +10

      Sameee

    • @TheOneTycoo
      @TheOneTycoo Před 5 lety +4

      isabel plummer lmao yeah everybody does this. Whenever my family says this I have to correct them and say a 2nd cousin is someone who shares a great grandparent

    • @samrofik1764
      @samrofik1764 Před 5 lety +14

      We call cousins kids nieces and nephews

    • @annemarie5622
      @annemarie5622 Před 5 lety +1

      isabel plummer thats what they are

    • @lucastheil3673
      @lucastheil3673 Před 5 lety

      @@samrofik1764 we call them second nephew and niece

  • @hiitskai29
    @hiitskai29 Před 4 lety +34

    “You can expand This as far as you want”
    Therefore we can expand it so that it includes every person currently in the human race, proving that everyone is related.

    • @farrelpermadi5471
      @farrelpermadi5471 Před 4 lety

      Hahaha! Not always!

    • @mariafe7050
      @mariafe7050 Před 3 lety +5

      Not just every human, but every living thing.

    • @georgelucas8916
      @georgelucas8916 Před 3 lety

      Wrong

    • @alexnelson8
      @alexnelson8 Před 2 lety

      We’re all just the offspring of a retarded monkey having butt sex with a fish-squirrel.
      -Mr. Garrison

    • @DrWhom
      @DrWhom Před 2 lety

      @@mariafe7050 It is really hard for people to understand that this is a simple literal truth. It sounds so much like the kind of hyperbole people use to "make science cool" but no, all living things _are_ related in the straightforward sense of the word. The tree of life and "family trees" genealogists construct are contiguous, albeit with a vast difference in scale.

  • @jessthomas7210
    @jessthomas7210 Před 6 lety +495

    Nibling??? Mind blown 💥

    • @haley9976
      @haley9976 Před 6 lety +4

      Yeah thats gonna haunt me for the rest of the day. "Nibling"

    • @--8654
      @--8654 Před 6 lety +1

      heeeeyyy nibling ;))

    • @captainpineapple5462
      @captainpineapple5462 Před 6 lety +4

      can just imagine someone saying
      whats up ma nibling

    • @egreenie3819
      @egreenie3819 Před 6 lety +1

      RaymondHng Yep! And you can say..." you lil' sunzabichin' niblings been nibling on this damn table leg??"

    • @NakitaCherie
      @NakitaCherie Před 6 lety

      Meeee toooo!!😂😂 I thought she was being a smart ass at first. Lol

  • @roughrider3591
    @roughrider3591 Před 6 lety +302

    I tried to explain this to a coworker once. He had been talking about his family and was unsure how to label a distant cousin. When I got to the term "once removed", he said "No, that 'removed' stuff is just for when somebody divorces out of the family" I gave up after that.

    • @migukmoonpark4312
      @migukmoonpark4312 Před 6 lety +75

      Fuck that "removed" shit. I just call them all uncles and aunts if they are the same age as my mom.

    • @micycles1200
      @micycles1200 Před 6 lety +48

      Yep. If they're cousins of my parents, I just say, fuck it, they're my uncles and aunts. Same thing with the children of cousins. They're just nieces and nephews. It just makes things so much simpler that way.

    • @julianullrich5633
      @julianullrich5633 Před 6 lety +22

      "Hey Aunt Once removed rebbecca, long time no see" - said noone ever

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 6 lety +4

      Rough Rider Your co-workers is right. When you get a divorce from your spouse. Your ex's family is removed from you.

    • @nickmiller76
      @nickmiller76 Před 2 lety +2

      Indeed. Sometimes you just have to give up. Ever hear about the Dunning-Kruger effect?

  • @dishwrapper6259
    @dishwrapper6259 Před 4 lety +11

    This made me wonder if everyone in the world are cousins

    • @seusstories
      @seusstories Před 4 lety +1

      3:25 Rockefellers and the British royal family know. 😎

  • @scottwalker1394
    @scottwalker1394 Před 5 lety +40

    Wouldn’t it be so cool to have some kind of app or something that had your infinite family tree??
    Like it showed every single like 6th cousin and everything!

    • @hinthemilk
      @hinthemilk Před 4 lety +6

      Watch a video to see past your seventh cousin!

    • @ntl5983
      @ntl5983 Před 11 měsíci

      It's called Ancestry... but you have to build the tree.

    • @MaySilitonga
      @MaySilitonga Před 2 měsíci

      Mine have one. In our tribe, Batak, we usually write down each generation till now! And im the 17th generation of Silitonga 😁✌

  • @kalonjistephens6481
    @kalonjistephens6481 Před 5 lety +146

    Let's just say Bob got a big family

  • @pengy44
    @pengy44 Před 6 lety +79

    To hard... we just call everyone one generation above, Uncle/Aunt, two generations above, Grandparents. Every generation below is just nieces and nephews lol

    • @FernandoTorres-hg5pl
      @FernandoTorres-hg5pl Před 5 lety +1

      Peng Yang Amen 😂

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 5 lety +2

      Your cousin are not removable like Bob's cousins are.

    • @Belioyt
      @Belioyt Před 5 lety +1

      Most African cultures have no concept of aunts/uncles or cousins.

  • @mikaelasantos-stevenson3832

    Accidentally discovered one of my third cousins a few years ago :P Befriended her after moving to a new school and later when she invited me to her house, my mom recognized the last name and we learned that we were related. That was pretty weird but also cool.

  • @ezip8564
    @ezip8564 Před 5 lety +5

    Finally, youtube giving me actually useful information for my life

  • @daniihh
    @daniihh Před 6 lety +301

    Technically were all cousins, cousin.

  • @minecraftheaven5965
    @minecraftheaven5965 Před 5 lety +284

    What if Bob had kids with his cousin

  • @Kaijja
    @Kaijja Před rokem +2

    For the Bible readers out there, Issac’s wife Rebecca, is Isaac’s first cousin once removed. Isaac father Abraham, is the brother to Nahor, who is the grandfather of Rebecca 😊
    Also, Jacob’s wives Leah & Racheal, are his second cousins once removed 😊 Abraham is Jacob’s grandfather and he is also a great grand uncle to Leah and Racheal 😅

  • @tsu_den__.tw_g
    @tsu_den__.tw_g Před 4 lety +5

    What you came for: A cousin removed is the child of your cousin.

    • @seusstories
      @seusstories Před 4 lety

      3:25 Rockefellers and the British royal family know. 😎

  • @blablabla8505
    @blablabla8505 Před 6 lety +119

    Just call em yo cousin das all.

  • @melonypanda3571
    @melonypanda3571 Před 6 lety +32

    I DON’T even know why this was on my recommended but this was interesting.

  • @karenrich9092
    @karenrich9092 Před 2 lety +5

    A girl in my geometry class asked me to share notes with her so she could go to her great-grandmother's funeral. My father said his Aunt Jenny had died so he was going to her funeral. Then my friend said, "Why was your dad at my great-grandmother's funeral?" I told her I would ask. What an interesting puzzle!

    • @ntl5983
      @ntl5983 Před 11 měsíci

      Your classmate is your 2nd Cousin once removed.

    • @Blind_Ghostling
      @Blind_Ghostling Před 11 měsíci

      @@ntl5983 🤯🤯🤯

  • @razaalee9477
    @razaalee9477 Před 4 lety +19

    In my language (Sindhi) you have different names for all aunts, uncles and cousins. For example brother of my mother and father, and husbands of my father's sister and mother's sister (that's 4 men) have all different names specific to their relationship (not generic word uncle) their wives and children also have specific names assigned to their relationship.
    So while English has 3 words (uncle aunt and cousin) we have 16 distinct words for them.

  • @shizukousapostle1stapostle710

    *Seriously.. Just remove everyone* ...

  • @poppykok5
    @poppykok5 Před 6 lety +525

    Ok... *NOW* I understand... : ) Thanks for the very clear explanation

    • @tallerstond8105
      @tallerstond8105 Před 5 lety +2

      what

    • @laobok
      @laobok Před 5 lety +4

      @@inspector_vavxd9822 Damn, you're messed up.

    • @AngelaRoseHeart
      @AngelaRoseHeart Před 5 lety +1

      The question that has been answered for years within every family reunion!!!!!!!!!

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 5 lety

      @@inspector_vavxd9822 what about the removable cousin from Alabama?

    • @wschippr1
      @wschippr1 Před 5 lety

      poppykok5
      Well, they didn't explain double cousins lol. It happens when two sets of siblings marrying each other. So, let's say Bob and Jon are full brothers and they marry June and Mary who are full sisters. If both marriages end up with children then they are double cousins (and genetically are similar to half siblings). Most countries that allow first cousins to marry (aka most nations) have provisions preventing double first cousins from doing so. If one Jon and Bob are identical twins then the cousins are genetically 3/4 siblings (and would could pass themselves of as full siblings on genetic tests) and if both Jon/Bob and Mary/June are identical twins then the cousins are indistinguishable from full siblings.
      The are other things like double second cousins which gets more complicated to describe without drawing a family tree.

  • @ismailshah8154
    @ismailshah8154 Před 4 lety +10

    The real question is how to fit them all in one car? 🧐

    • @suec9922
      @suec9922 Před 2 lety

      the truth is, nobody aint gonna see every inch of their family at once
      especially in a car

  • @CharlieCubes
    @CharlieCubes Před 5 lety +15

    Or just move to Alabama and everyone can be sibling

  • @_Ali.
    @_Ali. Před 7 lety +1078

    ... I still don't get it 😂

    • @WateverWatever04
      @WateverWatever04 Před 7 lety +1

      Randy King Damn that's genius thanks dude 👏

    • @CarlosMartinez-om9qq
      @CarlosMartinez-om9qq Před 6 lety +5

      Can I marry my second cousin?

    • @vdotme
      @vdotme Před 6 lety +4

      Ali it's a pointless relation description for us ethics. In my native culture we have different types of aunt and uncle in an equally useless manner.

    • @asmartbajan
      @asmartbajan Před 6 lety +3

      Carlos Martinez Once the law permits it, sure. Royalty does that sorta stuff all the time. Now, I should warn you that your offspring may be in danger of inheriting some genetic disease. That's a well-known risk of marrying ones close relatives, and it has plagued royal families for centuries.

    • @musdalifahmusdalifah976
      @musdalifahmusdalifah976 Před 6 lety +4

      Carlos Martinez maybe you should not

  • @franchescamarcelle1819
    @franchescamarcelle1819 Před 6 lety +611

    Or in much simplier terms: any child your parents first cousin has will be your second cousin.

    • @mattschehr163
      @mattschehr163 Před 6 lety +40

      Franchesca Marcelle thank u it makes more sense that way

    • @chollettgarrett
      @chollettgarrett Před 6 lety +13

      That’s not right though

    • @natashaestes154
      @natashaestes154 Před 6 lety +48

      Garrett Chollett, the simplification actually is correct. Your parent's sibling is your aunt or uncle. That person's kids are your [first] cousins. Likewise, your parent's parent's [your grandparen's] sibling is your parent's aunt or uncle. That person's kids are your parent's [first] cousins. This makes those kids your first cousins once removed. Any of that person's kids [your generation] are your second cousins.

    • @briy.9983
      @briy.9983 Před 6 lety +2

      That’s what I call it too

    • @niya4670
      @niya4670 Před 6 lety +1

      Natasha Estes thx for that!

  • @twinkletoes413
    @twinkletoes413 Před 5 lety +2

    ‘Bob just doesn’t know who they are. *Or does he????* ‘ best quote of the year

  • @scolipede1549
    @scolipede1549 Před 3 lety +3

    Jared Owen: shows fifth cousin twice removed
    Also Jared Owen: doesn’t show bob’s wife or child

    • @edgarmartinez7371
      @edgarmartinez7371 Před 2 lety

      Many people that make videos similar to this tend to assume that the 'person' they make up for the video remains single for his/her entire life

  • @Char.Chi.
    @Char.Chi. Před 6 lety +87

    I prefer the way things are done in my culture/family - it's way simpler lol we have our nuclear family. Aunties/uncles, cousins, nephews/nieces are determined by their generation. eg: relatives born in my grandparents' generation are my grandaunts/uncles, relatives born in my parents' generation are automatically labelled uncle/aunty, relatives born in my generation (outside my nuclear) are my cousins, and relatives born in the same generation as my children are my nephews and nieces. We don't do that once, twice, thrice removed, 2nd cousin thing at all. Ain't nobody got time for that. lol

    • @chillvibes375
      @chillvibes375 Před 5 lety +2

      word. this is awful. over complicated for no fucking reason....

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 5 lety +10

      I think the removes would work better on enemies I'd like to remove far away from me.

    • @IowaKim
      @IowaKim Před 5 lety +7

      so your culture doesn't do genealogy?

    • @MelB868
      @MelB868 Před 5 lety

      Well I always thought my cousins kids were second cousins if they had a kid it would be my 3rd cousin etc.

    • @sarigpoyyara8580
      @sarigpoyyara8580 Před 5 lety +3

      This is called Eskimo System of Kinship. It's elegant, but not very useful for genealogy.

  • @HinoHyena
    @HinoHyena Před 5 lety +126

    *only cousins have the power to remove themselves more than once*

  • @donniemontoya9300
    @donniemontoya9300 Před 4 lety +3

    Mexican family parties be like
    Me: "How many relatives do you want to show up?"
    Parents: "Yes."

    • @haimeda361
      @haimeda361 Před 3 lety

      My father's mother is my mother's mother aunt how am I related?

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 3 lety

      @@haimeda361 Let's break this down and then we can figure out how you're related. Okay, first of all your father's mother is your paternal grandmother. Second, your mother's mother is your maternal grandmother. Your maternal grandmother's aunt is your maternal great great aunt. So she related to you on both sides of the family tree. On your father's side, she is your grandmother and on your mother side, she is your great great aunt.

  • @lauralopez1973
    @lauralopez1973 Před 5 lety +2

    Nobody:
    Not a single soul:
    Honestly nothing:
    Spokesperson: “this is B O B”

  • @thefaceofawsomeness491
    @thefaceofawsomeness491 Před 7 lety +361

    My family has completely screwed this up

    • @shreddedlettuce5901
      @shreddedlettuce5901 Před 7 lety +61

      Same here. Until a few months ago I spent my entire life calling cousins by the wrong title of relation.

    • @JosephM
      @JosephM Před 6 lety +45

      There's this uncle of mine who screwed this thing up too. He had kids with his son's wife, who had kids too.

    • @aegonii8471
      @aegonii8471 Před 6 lety +32

      Joseph M. Fuck you beat me to the incest joke!

    • @dowrow6898
      @dowrow6898 Před 6 lety +18

      well that's not really incest

    • @wikityrl
      @wikityrl Před 6 lety +3

      Joseph M. wtf

  • @joshuastreet8664
    @joshuastreet8664 Před 6 lety +69

    At a family reunion I met my three second cousins once removed. Weird meeting someone the same age as you but you're a generation above them lol.

    • @red-qk3ig
      @red-qk3ig Před 6 lety +5

      wait what

    • @rowynnecrowley1689
      @rowynnecrowley1689 Před 6 lety +25

      Even weirder to have your niece/nephew babysit you. Such is my tale.

    • @marthaloven9385
      @marthaloven9385 Před 6 lety +2

      That's common in my mom's paternal family. Her dad (my maternal grandpa) has some first cousins that are the same age as my mom, making their kids (my mom's 2nd cousins), the same age as my sisters and I.
      In that case, my great-grandma was about the 3rd of 11 kids, with the youngest of her siblings being born around the time she was 13. She married and starting having children when she was about 25, and her younger sibling tended to be in their mid 30s before having children.

    • @lara-qe2xi
      @lara-qe2xi Před 6 lety +1

      wait THAT'S how it works?!

    • @Quinhala11
      @Quinhala11 Před 6 lety +1

      This also happened to me xD
      My first cousin is like 30 years old, her son (my First Cousin once removed) is 2 years Younger than me.

  • @kevinhardy8997
    @kevinhardy8997 Před rokem +1

    Twice removed is the best Canadian Rock album of all time.

  • @Mr.Magnetix
    @Mr.Magnetix Před rokem +2

    Bob probably doesmt know who they are.
    Or does he?
    [Vsauce Music starts blasting]

  • @fqidz
    @fqidz Před 6 lety +71

    Harder than rocket science.

  • @WilliJGaming
    @WilliJGaming Před 6 lety +59

    Thanks! Your Explanation was really clear... but now i'm worried i'm dating my 4th cousin and don't even know it.

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 5 lety +5

      They might be removed tho.

    • @lichtishlogistics
      @lichtishlogistics Před 5 lety +4

      I have a friend who is dating his 4th cousin.
      He knows it.

    • @TheBossJovi
      @TheBossJovi Před 5 lety

      cousins are sweet

    • @Fx_Explains
      @Fx_Explains Před 5 lety +5

      Every one is related even your parents lol

    • @infowolf1
      @infowolf1 Před 5 lety +1

      that's too far away to matter. first cousin is the only potential problem element.

  • @wayneegli8379
    @wayneegli8379 Před 3 lety +2

    Easiest way to explain is this:
    Find common ancestor, draw a line under each generation keeping both sides equal. The number of equal lines minus 2 is the cousin number, that is 1st, 2nd, 3rd cousins. If the 2 sides don't balance, then the amount of unbalance is the number of "removed."

  • @ProfessorOfHow
    @ProfessorOfHow Před 4 lety +1

    Kuch samajh nahi aaya.... par dekh ke achcha lga.

  • @napoleonlovecraft439
    @napoleonlovecraft439 Před 6 lety +57

    So could have married my cousin and not known about it? #incestland

  • @AlexS-oj8qf
    @AlexS-oj8qf Před 5 lety +28

    I can name every single relative since we have this book that record everything up to the year 900's lol

    • @patiencen1280
      @patiencen1280 Před 4 lety +6

      ooh that’s so cool I would never being able to name every single relative because any person who my parents invite over magically becomes my aunt or uncle

  • @talmankk564
    @talmankk564 Před 2 lety +1

    So all the way of the family tree is the first person ever, and down from him is every one else, which means everyone is a huge family.

  • @totuzacamperios9252
    @totuzacamperios9252 Před rokem +4

    why is 5'8 short when average american male is 5'9 and a half ton in weight?

  • @poorlydrawn5691
    @poorlydrawn5691 Před 5 lety +48

    Its 3am go to bed Nathan

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 5 lety +13

      Don't make Nathan go to bed. He wants to know why Bob and his cousins are removable.

  • @kaylahemmo4125
    @kaylahemmo4125 Před 6 lety +30

    okay about 2:11 so MY parents cousins are my first cousins once removed what the hell and i HATE the end when she says "bob just doesn't know who they are" bc i know my family up to second cousins like everyone down from my great grandma but i NEVER thought about it beyond her oml there are really people out there im related to living rn that i don't know oof

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 5 lety +3

      Yes, but distant cousins.

    • @hotwax9376
      @hotwax9376 Před 5 lety +1

      @Kayle Hemmo Calm down. They said unless you're into genealogy you probably don't know. This means it's not typical to know who they all are, not that nobody knows them all. I happen to be one of the exceptions; I personally know several of my second cousins and first cousins once removed.

    • @lukeschonkeren4602
      @lukeschonkeren4602 Před 5 lety

      HotWax93 I mean... I highly doubt you know who your 72nd cousin is...

  • @JosueMartinez-wd3yu
    @JosueMartinez-wd3yu Před 2 lety +2

    I was very fortunate to meet my mother and father great grandparents from mom side. And because of this, I am able to meet and have regular meetings with some of my second cousins and 2nd cousins once removed. This is incredible. Now I’m wondering who are my third cousins. I think it will start to get weird.

  • @jonathanzanzuri3102
    @jonathanzanzuri3102 Před 5 lety +13

    Me: *Watches Video*
    My understanding: *6 year old girl gives birth to her 60 year old grandson*

  • @marccolten9801
    @marccolten9801 Před 5 lety +107

    This is what worries me about DNA services. Do you really want to find out you're 1/4 Scots, 1/4 Welsh and 1/2 mailman?

  • @threynolds2
    @threynolds2 Před 6 lety +189

    Simple. The first generation of grandchildren are first cousins. The second generation of grandchildren are second cousins. And so on. Removed is the difference in generations.

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 6 lety +3

      THReynolds2 Very well explained!

    • @rosealexander9007
      @rosealexander9007 Před 5 lety +5

      I always just say first cousin, second cousin, third cousin, etc. I actually found a third cousin on-line.

    • @nancyomalley6441
      @nancyomalley6441 Před 5 lety

      The once removed is the offspring of your cousin(one generation down from you)

    • @christelheadington1136
      @christelheadington1136 Před 5 lety +1

      Not grandchildren,My brothers son, and my son are 1st cousins.....did you watch the video"

    • @nancyomalley6441
      @nancyomalley6441 Před 5 lety

      @@christelheadington1136 I know that. If your son has a child, that child will be a first cousin once removed from your nephew. If your nephew also has a child, the nephew's child will be your son's first cousin once removed. Those two children of your son and nephew will be second cousins to each other

  • @thiccsand
    @thiccsand Před 3 lety +2

    Some chimps are technically our 560000th cousins

  • @kevindc4961
    @kevindc4961 Před 4 lety +1

    good video, well enjoyed, well explained on what i have always found to be a confusing subject.
    ie..first cousin removed etc, so glad i found this video

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 4 lety

      Glad you understood how Bob and his cousins are removable.

  • @NShores
    @NShores Před 6 lety +8

    I've seen many cousin charts, but this video really explains it in an easy-to-understand way. Nice work.

  • @ZaxorVonSkyler
    @ZaxorVonSkyler Před 6 lety +23

    Bob just doesn't know who they are... Or does he! DUN DUN DUN!!!

  • @pqrstzxerty1296
    @pqrstzxerty1296 Před rokem +1

    Second cousin once removed but came later, = Uncle married his Aunties niece.

  • @archangelstudiosinc
    @archangelstudiosinc Před 4 lety +3

    OMG I JUST REALIZED THAT ANYONE COULD BE YOUR COUSIN AHHHHHH IM SCARED TO FALL IN LOVE NOW

    • @Lemonade-u9o
      @Lemonade-u9o Před 4 lety

      Ooooo! :D

    • @farrelpermadi5471
      @farrelpermadi5471 Před 4 lety

      Married your cousins most likely better than married your siblings or your parents or your nephew/child or grandparents or elder, or maybe younger than your nephew or niece

  • @msolec2000
    @msolec2000 Před 8 lety +24

    This system is weird. Why should people in different generations be called "cousins"? In Spanish those would be "second uncle (or aunt)" and "second nephew (or niece)". All the people in my family in generations above me, but not directly related, are (second, third...)(great-great...) uncle/aunt, and people below my generation would be nephew/niece with the same modifiers.

    • @JaredOwen
      @JaredOwen  Před 8 lety +12

      +msolec2000 Very true. I think that would make complete sense. Maybe I'll make another video about how it should work! Anyways, thanks for watching and commenting.

    • @CanalOmega
      @CanalOmega Před 7 lety +5

      msolec2000 That's what I was thinking too. Your cousin's children are not cousins, but nieces or nephews... in Latin America anyways...

    • @81StrangeFruit
      @81StrangeFruit Před 7 lety +1

      Τhis weird system is being used in many countries of North Europe and America. In Greece - where I was born and live - and in many other countries of Mediterranean this system is absolutelly out of sense. As you said, we use the terms "second uncle" to refer to my mother's (or father's) first cousin relation with me. Or second nephew to call my first's cousin child, etc.

    • @puncheex2
      @puncheex2 Před 6 lety

      The reason is because with the cousin system you need only two numbers to place any blood relationship to you. In the European system you have to know, in addition, the sex of the other person (difference between nephew and niece, or uncle and aunt) and which one is closer to the common ancestor (difference between aunt and niece, or uncle and nephew. It essentially lumps aunts, uncles, nephews and nieces into a single word: cousin. It's lkke the difference between metric and common systems of units; it's what you are used to, grown up with.

    • @jayant6493
      @jayant6493 Před 6 lety

      That makes just as little sense

  • @kouroshesfandiari1278
    @kouroshesfandiari1278 Před 5 lety +11

    3:28 vsauce music starts playing

    • @ivang3021
      @ivang3021 Před 5 lety

      I was looking for this comment-

  • @slusheditz948
    @slusheditz948 Před 4 lety +3

    Hold Up, Hold Up! So You're Saying That I Have Generations Upon Generations Of Relatives, And There Are Only That Many People Living On Earth, So Does That Mean I Could've Kissed My Own Cousin Without Even Knowing It!?

  • @TheMajinvegetadbz
    @TheMajinvegetadbz Před 4 lety +1

    The whole time I was waiting for you to finish with "and Bob's your uncle"

  • @KrisShawna
    @KrisShawna Před 5 lety +42

    This was in my recommendations

    • @JaredOwen
      @JaredOwen  Před 5 lety +6

      Awesome - thanks for watching

    • @klutzyblubber9877
      @klutzyblubber9877 Před 5 lety +1

      This was a good recommendation since I didn't know what a "once removed" is until I realized that it can't be as simple as "son of your grand-uncle".

  • @brandelynnefreleng7597
    @brandelynnefreleng7597 Před 5 lety +6

    As someone who is descended from two large families, (23 grand aunts/uncles, all of whom except one had kids) this will be incredibly helpful for the next family wedding! Thank you!!!!

  • @jvlixa
    @jvlixa Před 4 lety +2

    why was the ending so ominous tho it was like “bob doesn’t know who they are....OR DOES HE?!?!?!” lmfaoooo i can’t

    • @seanj3667
      @seanj3667 Před 3 lety

      Rule 34

    • @amatullahshahidi9503
      @amatullahshahidi9503 Před 3 lety

      I'm telling why ?
      This coud happen that your straight cousins (I mean 2nd cousin - 10th cousin) still live in your city an you found them as a freind or sometime marry them too
      So thats why she said that we could maybe connected with our straight cousins someway but we don't know that's they're our cousin

  • @wasteofspace69420
    @wasteofspace69420 Před rokem

    this explanation is a lot easier/simpler then the one my dad gives

  • @arleansingh4804
    @arleansingh4804 Před 5 lety +94

    *bob* : I have a family..but they are all orange while I am blue :-(
    Edits 👇
    Edit: thank you for much for all the likes! 😁 I don’t deserve them!

    • @randomperson3051
      @randomperson3051 Před 5 lety +13

      AdOpTion

    • @fall2720
      @fall2720 Před 5 lety +9

      im blue da ba dee da ba daa

    • @roxtherock2071
      @roxtherock2071 Před 5 lety +1

      @@fall2720 da ba dee da ba di

    • @firestar3963
      @firestar3963 Před 5 lety +2

      @@roxtherock2071 if i were green i would die, iF i WeRe GrEeN i WoUlD Dieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

    • @DayanaThe8th
      @DayanaThe8th Před 5 lety +1

      Im concerned that your family has abnormal skin colors

  • @adamwallace2414
    @adamwallace2414 Před 5 lety +41

    *Alabama has entered the chat*

    • @josephclegg3562
      @josephclegg3562 Před 5 lety +2

      Alabama! Home to the removed cousins!

    • @xDTHx
      @xDTHx Před 5 lety +1

      Arkansas too.

    • @MsMookalate
      @MsMookalate Před 3 lety

      Yeah I'm this case they all only cousins😖🤣🤣🤣

    • @MsMookalate
      @MsMookalate Před 3 lety

      @@josephclegg3562 they never remove cousins

  • @alphyzqrw7222
    @alphyzqrw7222 Před 3 lety +1

    I just don't have time to do follow up of family members.... I bang, hit and run.

  • @diogodavid3557
    @diogodavid3557 Před 6 lety +52

    *_or does he?_*

  • @bugbyubvgubuybuyyu8677
    @bugbyubvgubuybuyyu8677 Před 6 lety +23

    What if ur grandparents are cousins? That makes it even more confusing 😥

  • @echonga
    @echonga Před 5 lety +1

    Bob is a confused man already.

  • @emoluv54865
    @emoluv54865 Před rokem

    In my country we tend to have a big family, we can’t afford of an elaborate Label for a family tree. If you share the same line, and they are not your Sibling ,they are your cousins, one above = Aunt/Uncle, two above = Grand Parent, One below = Niece/Nephew, two below = Grand Children.

  • @emswah5358
    @emswah5358 Před 5 lety +13

    We know that bob probably needed this video so he doesn’t marry his family.

  • @KosukiFire
    @KosukiFire Před 6 lety +98

    So which one can I legally marry?
    Asking for a friend...

    • @lDreaxl
      @lDreaxl Před 6 lety +13

      KosukiFire 2nd cousins

    • @rachelgarber1423
      @rachelgarber1423 Před 6 lety +7

      KosukiFire No state bans marriage between second cousins, if that answers his/her question

    • @danielbush2637
      @danielbush2637 Před 6 lety +3

      KosukiFire Second cousin marriage is legal in every state in the US.

    • @shaeshaebritt1996
      @shaeshaebritt1996 Před 6 lety +26

      KosukiFire it's legal to marry your second cousin but I recommend not to. It is disgusting because it's too close to be married. Your grandparent and grandaunt or uncle would probably feel awkward about it too knowing their grandchild is married to their siblings grandchild

    • @alexandramcginnis8872
      @alexandramcginnis8872 Před 6 lety +13

      You know, we’re probably all related. But in my opinion, if you can’t trace the person back on your family tree then you can marry them

  • @nathanoafc0132
    @nathanoafc0132 Před 4 lety +2

    "Bob just doesn't know who they are, or does he?"
    *SWEET HOME ALABAMA INTENSIFIES*

  • @Kansasavation
    @Kansasavation Před 4 lety +1

    That’s enough family members to make up a whole city

  • @winterswarrior2064
    @winterswarrior2064 Před 7 lety +33

    I know 6 of my second cousins personally, and more variances on that via facebook/social media as my family started a Facebook group for us and just kept inviting brother/sisters/aunts/uncle + family in law.....etc. We now have over 370 people signed up.

    • @ahmatissa4450
      @ahmatissa4450 Před 7 lety +1

      beautiful

    • @nicelogin2
      @nicelogin2 Před 6 lety +24

      once you win a lottery, that list will grow much bigger.

    • @puncheex2
      @puncheex2 Před 6 lety +3

      Indeed. I've done about 3 years of research into my family. Including direct ancestors, their children and partners, plus a few interesting out-searches, I have about 8,000 named relatives in my daughter's tree.

    • @rohanofelvenpower5566
      @rohanofelvenpower5566 Před 6 lety

      puncheex2 8000? You surely did win the lottery

    • @puncheex2
      @puncheex2 Před 6 lety +1

      No, that number doesn't appear to be record-breaking. It comes from long times in the frontier of the US expansion, from the large families that farmers had to have to work their farms. Consider: at every generation there are two times as many direct ancestors then there were in the previous. For every one of those you get twice as many aunts, uncles and cousins who are not direct ancestors, but who you might want to record if it is important to know that information at a later time, and it's all right there in front of you for the picking. At ten generations back from today - say, 1720 or so, there were 1,024 direct ancestors. My family had 5 sibliings; this is at the low end of average size for my ancestors, so that's at least about 5000 people in the tree at that point. Some branches disappear from lack of knowledge or simple lack of marriage/kids, but that is more than compensated for by the others, and 10 generations back is by no means far. My great grandfather had 16 children in two more-or-less distinct families, and he's not the record holder in my tree.
      An interesting point - I saw an article in National Geographic where some scientists had winnowed through the family trees in geni.com and developed a unified tree for demographics research with 13 million members.