Should eliminate cousins after 10th

No idea what you are saying.

Blood relatives not in laws cousins etc. Goes on and on.

Still do not understand - what do you mean by "eliminate" them?
Don't let Geni tell us the relationship?
Or delete the profiles?
Or automatically cut the connection, so there is no possibility of a World Tree?
Do not think I would like any of those - but do not know that you mean any of those, so it is hard to respond appropriately.

So far, I am not known as 10th cousin or further to anyone - but if it was determined that I was, I would enjoy Geni letting me know that fact.

10 times removed from someone in the family not connected only by marriage. Just a suggestion. .It can go on and on . Sorry you don't understand. Look up some other ones who can tell you. I can't !

madam Nederlk you are saying that 10th cousin is not into the blood familly but related only by mariage?
i do agree with you.

here on geni ppl conect on the tree ,they dont look into real bloodline majority skip this importance.

(they use gateway or diferent alternative to make a genealogy tree)

now my question madam nederlk
solution to your proposal???

Sounds like you are proposing that Geni change the definition of cousin.

Here's how cousin is defined in most of the English language parts of the world: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cousin

Ruth - I understand what 10th cousin is.

Jonathan has given us a link to the Wikipedia definition - according to it, 3rd cousins are "non-second cousins who share great-great-grandparents". I find it easier to think of it as - for 3rd cousins, go up 3 generations, across siblings, and down 3 generations - or, same thing phrased differently - 3rd cousins are each down 3 generations from siblings -- anyone who looks at the picture in the wikipedia link will see it amounts to the same thing. SO - 10th cousins are where you are each 10 generations down from siblings, 11th cousins are each down 11 generations from siblings, etc.

What do you mean by wanting to eliminate 11th cousins (and etc)?
And why are you suggesting it be done?

Thank you Jonathan Scott Krengel . for your site for looking up definition for cousins Wonderful explanation. I hadn't meant to eliminate anything Geni has planned I just think it has not anything to do with me to see a cousins wife's cousins It gets too confusing. Yes the cousins wife's children would continue the cousin line and their children etc. .Pretty soon I end up related to Abraham Lincoln's wife. how many cousins did it take to figure that out? Whew sorry I asked. Anyway Thank you for your site on definition!

Hey, that's half the FUN of Geni, finding out your distant connections to this or that famous person!

If you're not interested in indirect connections, you can set your Tree display to "Direct ancestors only" (this option is a check-box under the "Preferences" tab, on the lower left of the display).

Ruth - The way I see it -- 12th Cousin is blood-kin, and a relative.
However, if, for example, the closest one can get to connecting me to someone is a path thru three marriages - that person is not blood-kin, and I do not consider them a relative. However, I see no reason to tell Geni to stop showing how I am connected to that person.

Not telling Geni to stop showing ! Just can't figure those that go on and on some to the 39th etc.

Blood Kin is fine!

It is what it is. "We're all related". Some of us more obscurely than others.

There really are only four things you can do:

1) Set your Tree display to show only direct ancestors (they will also show siblings of the generation you are working with).

2) Don't use the "How are you connected?" feature in Profile view (you don't *have* to use it).

3) Ignore all the "So-and-so is my [whatever relative]" chatter - you don't *have* to read every message.

4) Find something that works better for you than Geni.

Geni would lose a lot of its value to many users if it stopped showing very distant cousins. I already know who my cousins are -- I want to see the people I don't know. For me it's interesting to click on the profile of someone I'm talking to and discover that they are a distant cousin with a shared history.