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What do you call a relative, same generation as yours, but like a branch "over". Like I have a cousin that I share grandparents. Now he has a cousin that he shares grandparents with (but I don't). What am I to that other cousin?

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I don't think there is a term for a cousin of a cousin. You aren't considered to be related.

There was an example of this among the Andes Survivors. Fito and Eduardo Strauch (both were survivors) were double-cousins in that two Urioste sisters married two Strauch brothers and Fito was the son of one of these couples and Eduardo of the other couple. A third Urioste sister married a Fernandez and Daniel Fernandez was their son (he also survived). A sister of the Strauch brothers married a Shaw and their son was Daniel Shaw (he didn't survive). Both Daniels were cousins to the Strauchs but weren't related to each other.

That's really odd. To me, it seems we're so close we should be considered something. We were just at a family thing last November (for one of the mutual cousins), and I basically considered them relatives via that relationship.

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Don't forget the "removed" aspect of things. "Removed" is used whenever there's a generational divide between two people.

My children will be first cousins once-removed to my first cousins.

And then, as noted above, my children and my cousin's children are second cousins to one another.

And yeah, I don't think there's a term for a cousin of a cousin. I'm assuming you're talking about a cousin's cousin through a marriage. Then you and that other cousin are not related other than through thin connections of state. (Otherwise that cousin's cousin is either your sibling or another cousin.)

It's like, say your sibling gets married. Your sibling's spouse is your whatever-in law, their children your nieces and nephews. But that's as far as that connection go.

Your sibling's spouse's parents, uncles, aunts and cousins are your total nobodies. They have connections to your sibling through marriage, but that's as far as the connection goes.
 
The cousins of cousins, who are not "your" relations? They're not your relations, but if you liked them well enough, you could choose to consider them "kissing cousins." they may also be called a "cousin by marriage."

Kissing cousins are distant relations who are greeted with a kiss anyway--they're distant on the family tree and you're not really sure of the connection but they're still "family."

I believe the furthest I met in my family was third cousins once removed, who was also a second cousin once (twice?) removed. Some whatever-cousins married.
 
We have specific names for a lot of people based on their relation. Like my brother's wife has a certain name since she married my older brother, or I call my uncle on my dad's side something different than my mom's brother. It also depends on age, so it can get very specific!

Edit:

I also tend to call people by simplified terms in English. My brother-in-law and I refer to each other as brother and sister, my cousin is my sister, my husband's cousins I call cousin, etc.
 
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