The above information is a different kind of ‘cousin’ chart, and is based on real people. Frank Mayfield is the ‘web guy’ for this Higdon Family Association Website; Mary Virginia Higdon McCarty is Frank’s 8th cousin 3 times removed. That makes Mary McCarty the most distant of distant cousins that Frank has had the pleasure of working with in his genealogical research, so far. The above chart gives you an easy way to determine consanguinity if you know both your own and your distant cousin’s direct descent lines.