From: G6JPG@255soft.uk   
      
   In message , cecilia   
    writes:   
   >On Mon, 20 Jan 2020 12:15:54 +0000, "J. P. Gilliver (John)"   
   > wrote:   
   >   
   >>We share a however-many-greats grandfather that makes us fourth cousins,   
   >>but not the corresponding mother (he's descended from George Surtees'   
   >>first wife, I'm descended from George's second [of three!]).   
   >>   
   >>What are we:   
   >>half fourth cousins?   
   >>fourth half-cousins?   
   >>Something else?   
   >>   
   >>And how would one describe the relationship between two people where the   
   >>halfness (?) is part way up the arms - or, as I _think_ is the case,   
   >>does that not arise (as it wouldn't be relevant)?   
   >   
   >If some sort of cousin of person A has children from different   
   >partners, they are half-siblings to each other, but it makes no   
   >difference to the cousinship of each to A.   
      
   Well explained, thanks.   
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