Flash: Last week Jane was my 10th cousin, multiple times removed….

Her father and my father were 7th cousins once removed (a generation apart). Jane and I are 8th cousins.

We have not stopped being 10th cousins, down another line.

We share 24th-great grandparents, once removed.

We therefore share 25th, 26th, 27th, etc. And I’m pretty sure we share a 17th-great grandfather, but I haven’t gotten to that part of the chart yet: he’s a son of the 24th-greats. But we know that he was married? to my 17th-great grandmother Isabella, and their child was Jane’s 16th-great, who married my 19th-great grandmother…which has to be a relationship that went down another track entirely.