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Post by Indistinguishable Blob on Jul 23, 2003 17:49:27 GMT -5
No. Not yet. lemme draw a chart or something. I always need a visual aid.
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Post by Luna on Jul 24, 2003 9:34:37 GMT -5
its kinda like this
my dad's cousin is my cousin once removed. her cousinis my cousin twice removed. her cousin's cousin is my cousin three times removed and so on
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Post by Dark on Jul 24, 2003 23:01:00 GMT -5
it's the same as how we do it.. just instead of his second cousin they would be his aunt or uncle (second). It's like there is an extra step. Exactly, and their children will be my second-cousins |
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Post by Indistinguishable Blob on Jul 25, 2003 10:13:29 GMT -5
OK, now I kinda get it.
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Post by Despair on Jul 25, 2003 19:05:35 GMT -5
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Post by Indistinguishable Blob on Jul 27, 2003 17:04:22 GMT -5
Visual aids always help.
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Post by Despair on Jul 31, 2003 0:27:10 GMT -5
Why did Olaf want to pretend he was related in the 1st place?
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Post by Pester, Rumormonger on Jul 31, 2003 1:42:14 GMT -5
As a relative and their legal guardian, he would have more claim on it then say, Montgommery Montgommery. If something unfortunate were to happen to the children, he would look most likely to inherit. If someone else inherited, they could just suffer an accident too.
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Post by CountQuagmire on Aug 2, 2003 12:55:18 GMT -5
I imagen the money would go to the nearest relative because Olaf isn't the closest relative. Unless he fiddled with the will so he got the dosh.
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Post by Indistinguishable Blob on Aug 11, 2003 19:41:16 GMT -5
and while we're on the subject of "Not the nearest reletive" type stuff, am I the only one confused and more than a little suspicious that they are always sent off to these distant reletives? I mean, what happened to their grandparents and their aunts and uncles? It's just a little hard to believe that all of those reletives just died and all they have left are "third cousin four times removed or fourth cousin three times removed" and so on.
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Erica
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Post by Erica on Sept 1, 2003 16:56:42 GMT -5
That really makes a lot of sense. But think about it, the marriage laws in that city are weird enough as it is, maybe they never gave that a second thought. I mean, a judge only has to be in the room for crying out loud! This is a sick city and those were some sick people. But wouldn't they have to be related for Mr. Poe to even consider him? He couldn't possibly just take Count Olaf's word that he's related, could he? At least I hope not.  |
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Post by CactusWren on Sept 30, 2003 2:49:46 GMT -5
Let me try to explain the cousin thing, in more specific and concrete terms: On my father's side I have two cousins, Terri and Bobbie. Their mother was my father's sister, so Terri and Bobbie are my first cousins.
Bobbie has a daughter, Lydia. Lydia is one generation removed from me, so she is my first cousin once removed. If she ever has a child -- call it Chris, after my aunt, Lydia's grandmother -- Chris will be my first cousin twice removed.
In the extremely unlikely event that I have a kid of my own, that child and Lydia will also be first cousins once removed, and it and Chris will be second cousins.
You're right, this probably would be better with a diagram:
Dad-----Aunt (siblings)
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Me ........ Bobbie (1st cousins)
. | .......... |
. | .......... |
(??) ..... Lydia (2nd cousins)
Clear as mud? (It took me at least ten tries to get that diagram worked out so that it would show up properly in Verdana. O for a monospaced font.)
A semi-interesting bit of trivia WRT the legal issues of cousin marriage: according to Daniel Pool's wonderful resource What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew: From Fox Hunting to Whist, the Facts of Daily Life in 19th Century England, for a long time in England it was perfectly legal to marry one's first cousin -- but considered legal incest to marry the sibling of one's deceased spouse.
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Post by Green on Sept 30, 2003 17:26:47 GMT -5
I thought it was like this
Dad/Mom- Uncle/Aunt- Uncle/Aunt InLaw
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Me. . .1st Cousin. . . 2st Cousin
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. . . . . 1st Cousin. . .2nd Cousin
. . . Once removed. .Once removed
Ignor the periods they are just to keep spaces.
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Post by Tay Sachs on Oct 2, 2003 1:38:48 GMT -5
Here is the law, at least where I am
16 is the age of consent, younger if you have parental permission
12 is the youngest, even with parental permission
Anything more distant than a first cousin may marry here (Nevada)
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Post by DetectiveDupin on Oct 5, 2003 12:17:06 GMT -5
I can see a headline now: MARRIED AND MOTHER AT TWELVE
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