can anyone help with this question

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i have a relationship question - my mum has a cousin who has kids the same age as mine so am i her kids cousin? and what are her kids to mine?? im confused

I think your mums cousin is your second cousin and her children are second cousins once removed....but I'm not sure

oh here is an explaination

a person with whom you share a grandparent (but not a parent) is a first cousin; someone with whom you share a great-grandparent (but not a grandparent) is a second cousin; and someone with whom you share a great-great-grandparent (but not a great-grandparent) is a third cousin; and so on. The child of your first cousin is your first cousin once removed because the one generation separating you and the child represent one remove. You and the child are still considered first cousins, as your own grandparent (this child's great-grandparent), as the most recent common ancestor, represents one degree.

I didnt really understand it!!

You'd be 1st cousin once removed to her daughter, and your kids 1st cousin twice removed....

Oh well explained Ecmo! That was roughly what I was going to say but not nearly so suscintly(sp?)

it wasn't me it was wikipedia!

thanks ladies

ecmo, i'd have kept shtum and keep us all thinking you are extra articuate and very intelligent