On Facebook someone posted a
picture of Jimmy Mize, grandson of James Robert Bell and Alice Costner Bell. I
saw right away that he was my second cousin on the Costner side, since our
parents were first cousins. I had to have more coffee before I did the Bell
side. After more coffee, I see that Mize
and I are 3rd cousins on the Bell side. If James Robert Bell and Alice Bell
Costner [don't get confused] were first cousins (children of brothers) then Martha Costner Parker and Laveda
Bell Mize were 2nd cousins and Jimmy Mize and I are 3rd cousins. So 2nd cousins
and 3rd cousins, not to mention all the old intermarrying of cousins back in
the Revolutionary Adams-Ewart-Knox-Bell days. No one anywhere has given me a
consanguinity chart so as to add different relations and average them out to
what they actually equate to--here, somewhere more than second cousin but a
good deal less than first cousin. There must be such a consanguinity chart
somewhere!!
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