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18th-century family register Basics of kinship diagrams A colorful family tree diagram visually mapping cousin relationships across generations, with second cousins highlighted in the same row as first and third cousins, showing their shared great-grandparents. A kinship diagram shows Ego at the center with relatives labeled as parallel cousins or cross cousins based on whether their parents are same-sex or opposite-sex siblings of Ego's parents. Blue shapes represent parallel cousins, and orange shapes represent cross cousins, with a key explaining the relationships. Lineal kin and collateral kin Matrilineal kin system same-sex marriage
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18th-century family register
An 18th-century family register listing births, marriages, and deaths within a kin...
National Archives, Washington, D.C.
Basics of kinship diagrams
Common terms and symbols used in kinship diagrams.
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Cousin family tree
A cousin family tree names relationships across generations.
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Parallel and cross-cousins
In many cultures that differentiate between parallel cousins and cross-cousins, parallel...
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Lineal kin and collateral kin
Lineal kin and collateral kin.
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Matrilineal kin system
Unilineal kin systems trace kin through either the female line or the male line....
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same-sex marriage
Grooms exchanging rings during a wedding ceremony at a church in Berlin, August 2016.
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