CONSANGUINITY AND AFFINITY RELATIONSHIP CHART

Officer or Employee
Consanguinity (Includes individuals related by blood to the Officer or Employee)			Affinity (Includes the Officer’s or Employee’s Spouse and individuals related to the Spouse)
First Degree	Second Degree	Third Degree	First Degree	Second Degree	Third Degree
Father or Mother	Grandparents	Great Grandparents	Spouse	Grandparents	Great Grandparents
Son or Daughter (& Spouse)	Grandchildren (& Spouse)	Great Grandchildren (& Spouse)	Father or Mother	Grandchildren	Great Grandchildren
	Uncle or Aunt (& Spouse)	Great Uncle or Aunt (& Spouse)	Son or Daughter	Uncle or Aunt	Great Uncle or Aunt
	First Cousin (& Spouse)	Children of Great Uncle or Aunt (& Spouse)		First Cousin	Children of Great Uncle or Aunt
	Nephew or Niece (& Spouse)	Second Cousin (& Spouse)		Nephew or Niece	Second Cousin
	Brother or Sister (& Spouse)	Children of First Cousin (& Spouse)		Brother or Sister	Children of First Cousin
		Grand Nephew or Niece (& Spouse)			Grand Nephew or Niece

An Officer or Employee is the starting point from which all degrees of relationship are calculated.

Under the Degrees of Consanguinity, where Spouse is indicated, the relationship of the spouse is in the same degree as that of the person related by consanguinity, but the spouse is related only by affinity.

10/16/2000