My Explanation of the Cousins Chart

# **Basic Information**

**My Explanation of the Cousins Chart** is the sixty-seventh (67th) video on the Master Raney channel. Master Raney explains to Rita Conginuine and the audience the whole cousins chart and distinguishes the types of cousins.

# **Plot**

Master Raney prepares the audience for the explanation of the cousins chart, but suddenly, he hears his doorbell rings, as he walks to the door, the scene reveals what's outside of the studio room. Master Raney answers the door to Rita Conginuine, who informed him to have heard from The Project Commission about him causing Chris Wickedman's downfall bringing her good news, as Master Raney asks Rita to tell her story, the scene asks the audience to please stand by for 25 seconds, then back into the studio room with both Master Raney and Rita Conginuine inside, Master Raney begins discussing the cousins chart, as the chart presents on screen, he points out yourself, your ancestors, your descendants, and your relatives within your own generation. Master Raney starts off with discussing siblings, which he states them to be closer than all cousins because of siblings having parents in common with whoever the person is, which he points out that siblings also have both sets of grandparents in common unless if the sibling is a half-sibling, then it's only one parent and one set of grandparents in common, as well as half the mutual DNA of a regular sibling. Rita questions what first cousins are, then Master Raney answers that they are the closest cousins on the chart and have in common a set of grandparents, states that they are the offsprings of your piblings, which he defines as aunts or uncles, states the fact that first cousins have mutual grandparents is because you, your siblings, and your first cousins are their grandchildren, states that they are the niblings of one's parent, which he defines "niblings" as nieces or nephews, and states that since first cousins share only one set of grandparents, they also share only two sets of great-grandparents while you have two sets of grandparents and four sets of great-grandparents in common with your siblings. Rita questions what second cousins are and how different are they from first cousins, Master Raney answers that second cousins have one set of great-grandparents in common while first cousins have two. Master Raney points out that second cousins have grandparents that are different from that of you, your siblings, and your first cousins, which are your grandpiblings, which Master Raney defines as granduncles and grandaunts, great-uncles and great-aunts, or grunkles and graunts, and that the parents of one's second cousins are the first cousins once removed, which are defined as the first cousins of one's parent. Rita questions what third cousins are, then Master Raney answers that third cousins have great-grandparents as one's great-grandpiblings, which are great-granduncles and great-grandaunts, great-great-uncles and great-great-aunts, or great-grunkles and great-graunts, which are different great-grandparents than the ones of you, your siblings, your first and second cousins altogether. Master Raney points out that third cousins have in common second great-grandparents, one set. Master Raney points out the fact while siblings of the full DNA have every ancestor in common, first cousins have their own ancestors for one generation, second cousins have their own ancestors for two generations, and third cousins have their own ancestors for three generations. Master Raney states that second cousins have great-grandparents as one's great-grandpiblings, grandparents as one's first cousins twice removed, and parents as one's second cousins once removed. Rita then questions what "removed" means in terms of the cousin chart, which Master Raney points out that "removed" indicates that the cousins are in separate generations, indicating that how many times removed the cousin is depends on how many generations apart you are from that cousin, Master Raney examples the cousins once removed being the cousins that are one generation above or below you and the cousins twice removed being two generations above or below you. Master Raney recaps that while siblings have every ancestor in common, including parents, first cousins have one generation of their own ancestors, which are their parents, second cousins have two generations of their own ancestors, which are their parents and grandparents, third cousins have three generations of their own ancestors, which are from their parents to great-grandparents, fourth cousins have four generations of their own ancestors, which are from their parents to their second-great-grandparents, fifth cousins have five generations of their own ancestors, which are from their parents to their third-great-grandparents, and so on. Master Raney also recaps the meaning of the removed cousins, pointing out that the cousins once removed are in the family generation of your parents or children, twice removed are that of your grandparents or grandchildren, thrice (three times) removed are that of your great-grandparents or great-grandchildren, and so on. Master Raney thinks about delivering the information to his triplet brothers, Superhuman Raney and Military Raney, to see how interesting the topic is to them. Master Raney quizzes Rita if she knows what "double cousins" are, which she had no clue, then Master Raney gladly spits out that double cousins come from the siblings of both your mom and dad and that they share both sets of grandparents like siblings do, exampling a scenario of a man marrying a woman, then the man's sister marries his uxorial brother-in-law and them having kids. Master Raney statistically says that not many people have double cousins. Rita begins to understand what Master Raney has talked about and states that she's heard of the terms "first cousin", "second cousin", "first cousin once removed", and so on, but didn't know how to define them up until the time of the video. Upon discussion of the cousins chart, Rita thanks Master Raney for his time and for the paradox from the 64th video that did her good and then they befriend one another. After Rita returns home, Master Raney wraps up the video and tells the audience if anyone was confused by the whole thing with Rita Conginuine, then they may not have seen My project: Microsoft Windows Vista and provides the link in the description for them to check out that prequel video to see where she was first mentioned.

# **Trivia**

* For a long time, Raney Kleiner in real life has wondered about the cousin types upon hearing the ordinal numbered cousin term for the first time, which he eventually did some research to learn
* Also in real life, Raney Kleiner has witnessed some people who didn't know such terms, but had to tell them personally what they are, which eventually inspired him to create this video

# **References**

1. The Video on YouTube
2. The Prequel Video on YouTube