If someone is listed as a possible second cousin, the person has three people in their tree, all private. If a person is a possible 8th cousin, they will have 3,000 people in their tree with whom I still can't find a match. The inverse proportionality of #Genealogy

@poemblaze A second cousin is far enough removed that it's unlikely to be any sort of issue. A third cousin, forget it.

And a cousin that is anything "removed" from you is not related directly by blood, but by marriage.

I remember when someone found out Dan Quayle was like 9th cousins with Bush, and they acted like it was nepotism, and I was like "I'm probably their 9th cousin".