Today's Boston Globe has a story about the side of the Romney family that remained in Mexico after Mitt's ancestors returned to America.
Mike Romney, a school administrator in this small town in the Mexican desert, and Mitt Romney, a candidate for president of the United States, have never met.
But the two distant cousins are just a year apart in age, and both are descendants of the same great-grandfather, Miles Park Romney, who fled the United States and, at the direction of church leaders, helped create this colony 122 years ago as a refuge for polygamous Mormons. [Link]
second cousins are not distant!
Agreed. On the other hand, a second cousin, once removed, probably won't come to the next reunion.