GENEALOGY
Tips & Tricks
RELATIONSHIP CHART
by Robert B. Noles
If you find determining how two people are related to be difficult, you may want to refer to a chart like the one below.
To use this chart, select the relationship to the common ancestor for the first person across the top row (e.g. 4th Great Grandson). Then select the relationship of the second person to the common ancestor down the first column (e.g. 2nd Great Grandson). Then read down the column for first person and across the row for the second person. Where the column and row cross is their relationship (3rd Cousin, 2 times Removed for this example).
| Common Ancestor |
Son or Dau. | GS | GGS | 2nd GGS | 3rd GGS | 4th GGS | 5th GGS | 6th GGS | 7th GGS |
| Son or Dau. | B or S | N | GN | GGN | 2nd GGN | 3rd GGN | 4th GGN | 5th GGN | 6th GGN |
| GS | N | 1 C | 1
C, 1 R |
1 C, 2 R |
1 C, 3 R |
1 C, 4 R |
1 C, 5 R |
1 C, 6 R |
1 C, 7 R |
| GGS | GN | 1 C, 1 R |
2 C | 2 C, 1 R |
2 C, 2 R |
2 C, 3 R |
2 C, 4 R |
2 C, 5 R |
2 C, 6 R |
| 2nd GGS | GGN | 1 C, 2 R |
2 C, 1 R |
3 C | 3 C, 1 R |
3 C, 2 R |
3 C, 3 R |
3 C, 4 R |
3 C, 5 R |
| 3rd GGS | 2nd GGN | 1 C, 3 R |
2 C, 2 R |
3 C, 1 R |
4 C | 4 C, 1 R |
4 C, 2 R |
4 C, 3 R |
4 C, 4 R |
| 4th GGS | 3rd GGN | 1 C, 4 R |
2 C, 3 R |
3 C, 2 R |
4 C, 1 R |
5 C | 5 C, 1 R |
5 C, 2 R |
5 C, 3 R |
| 5th GGS | 4th GGN | 1 C, 5 R |
2 C, 4 R |
3 C, 3 R |
4 C, 2 R |
5 C, 1 R |
6 C | 6 C, 1 R |
6 C, 2 R |
| 6th GGS | 5th GGN | 1 C, 6 R |
2 C, 5 R |
3 C, 4 R |
4 C, 3 R |
5 C, 2 R |
6 C, 1 R |
7 C |
7 C, 1 R |
| 7th GGS | 6th GGN | 1 C, 7 R |
2 C, 6 R |
3 C, 5 R |
4 C, 4 R |
5 C, 3 R |
6 C, 2 R |
7 C, 1 R |
8 C |
S = Son or Daughter
B or S = Brother or Sister (siblings)
N = Niece or Nephew
G = Great or Grand
C = Cousin
R = Removed (number of generations)
