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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If I knew that someone was my third or fourth cousin, I'd introduce them as a cousin.  That's how you know them, right?  Because you're related to them?

Actually, even if I worked with someone and they showed up one day saying "the craziest thing happened when my 23andMe results came back, I think we might be cousins??" I would probably introduce them as a cousin after that.  Weird coincidence, but maybe a good story!

I guess I'm not seeing the downside unless you're in the British Royal Family - does calling a distant cousin your cousin indicate to the listener a privilege they're not really entitled to or something?[/quote]

Op here: I wouldn’t deny the relationship, but I know some people would assume we have a close familial connection like family gatherings. I would feel weird introducing someone as cousin that I barely knew or ever socialized with even if I worked with them. Come to think of it, I went to school with several people who were 2nd cousins and they never really brought it up and weren’t close. My brother went to school with a third cousin and they never hung in the same circles or talked to each other. Interestingly our parents were close as children bc they lived in the same neighborhood and their parents (my grandmother) were close friends as well as first cousins. [/quote]

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