Mission Accepted! - How Many Cousins Do You Know You Have?

While reading my way through this weekends blog updates on my reading list I came across Randy Seaver's Challenge: Saturday Night Genealogy Fun -- How Many Cousins Do You Know You Have?

1)  Take both sets of your grandparents and figure out how many first cousins you have, and how many first cousins removed (a child or grandchild of a first cousin) you have.

Answer 1: This is the easiest one for me to answer.  
From my Paternal Grandparents I have 4 First Cousins and 4 First Cousins Once removed.
From my Maternal Grandparents I have 3 First Cousins and 2 First Cousins Once removed.

Total: 
7 First cousins
6 First Cousins once removed
2)  Extra Credit:  Take all four sets of your great-grandparents and figure out how many second cousins you have, and how many second cousins removed you have.


Answer 2:   

From my Paternal GrandFather's Parents (William Harold ANDREWS and Rachel Ellen SAUNDERS) I have 7 First Cousin's Once Removed, 16 Second Cousins, 2 Second Cousins once removed

From my Paternal GrandMother's Parents (Henry James John WYATT and Elizabeth Ann OSBORNE) I have 12 First Cousin's Once Removed,  6 Second Cousins (that I know of), 3 Second Cousins once removed

From my Maternal GrandFather's Parents (Donald WILLIAMS and Ida Lucy WALTERS) I have  19 First Cousin's Once Removed, 17 Second Cousins, 0 Second Cousins once removed (at last count)

From my Maternal GrandMother's Parents (John GRAHAM and Hilda Kathleen KING) I have 1 First Cousin's Once Removed, 0 Second Cousins, 0 Second Cousins once removed

Total: 
39 First Cousins once removed
39 Second cousins
5 Second cousins once removed

3)  Tell us the grandparents and great-grandparents names, but don't give the name of living cousins unless you want to.  


See above for Great Grandparents. I will not mane my Grandparents as some are still with us.

4)  Are there any of those lines that you don't know all of the cousins names?  Do you care? 

I know all my First cousin's as I was fortunate to grow up with them, I also know 4 of their children and get to watch the other 2 grow up through social media.

I have met all bar 5 of my parents cousins. I have no children or spouses recorded for those 5  and 2 that I have never met as we lost contact with those branches due to a  rift long before I was born. 

On my Maternal Grandfather's line my tree was updated at the last family gathering 4 years ago. Although no-one has said that any other children have been born into this part of the tree this needs to be double checked and updated if necessary.


Grand Total of Cousins

7 First cousins
45 First Cousins once removed
39 Second cousins
5 Second cousins once removed
 
5)  Tell us about them in your own blog post, in a comment to this blog post, or in a Facebook or Google+ post of your own.  Be sure to drop a comment to this post to link to your work.  

Answer 5: Done!