Q: What does it mean to be "double cousins?"

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Q: What does it mean to be "double cousins?"

Online Course: Write Your Family History

There are plenty of reasons why you should write your family history. Whether you’re writing to honor your ancestors, give shape to your research, preserve an interesting story, or show history through the eyes of those who lived it, documenting your findings is a great way to add depth to your research and share it with others. In this 4-week course, we’ll give you the tools to make writing your family history painless.

How to Refer to Aunts and Uncles: Grand, Not Great

Great-aunt or great-uncle is a lot like second cousin: It’s common practice for people to call their grandparents’ siblings by these terms, just as they often refer to first cousins’ children as second cousins—but neither is technically correct.

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Save and share your family history with style! This download contains 25 beautiful decorative family tree templates that will turn your genealogy into a work of art. Simply download the family tree templates, then type and save the name of your ancestors into the forms.

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