to not know how I am related to family members?

[Unacceptable]

I understand who my Cousins are and Uncles/Aunts etc. but a bit beyond that and I get confused

Who is my Mother's Cousin? Is that my 2nd cousin?

What about my Cousin's DS?

I don't think it was a wise move to start on the wine before reading the responses and then trying to work out where we all fit!!!

I can't even make sense of it using the link oldbeanbagz posted

Better not even contemplate trying to work out how the step-relations fit in [head explodes smiley]

asians do it slightly differently just to confuse matters even more! Cousins are like siblings on the same line & are often referred as cousin brothers or sisters. So your parents cousins are called aunt/ uncle & their kids are your 2nd/3rd cousins. Great uncles/aunts are also referred to as grandparents & older members are never called by their first name, always by a title.

Listening to Radio 4.

Iceland has a population of about 300 000, and for centuries had no immigration so everyone is related.

There is now a smart phone app that can tell you just how related you are to someone.

Apparently it is not uncommon to meet someone you have slept with at a wedding and find out you are related.

Trills has it in the bag.

Apparently it is not uncommon to meet someone you have slept with at a wedding and find out you are related.

Is sleeping with strangers at weddings very commonplace in Iceland?

sorry badly explained, you have slept with someone who you subsequently meet at a wedding and find out you are related - that was what was said, personally i have no experience of icelandic weddings

Try mixing a large Irish family with an Asian family, mutiple exploding heads. . . .

to him anyone about 10 years younger is a nephew/ niece.

Anyone about 10 years older is an Uncle/Aunt.

Anyone older and not related is also know as Uncle/Aunt.

Doesn't work in my family as in my family there are a 2 big age gaps, so my eldest sib is 20 years older than my youngest sib. And there are only 3 years between yougest sib and oldest DN. OH head just explodes.

As does mine when I'm introduced to yet another Auntie. . .

But seriously this stuff can be important when you're looking at health matters. Total pain in the arse track down actual blood relations when t was discovered that there was a genetic issue involved in OH semi-recent ill health.

His Mum when she didn't have her head in the sand abut it kept suggesting randoms who were Auntie/ Uncle children who were not related by blood at all.

Thanks Fellatio :)