"forty-second cousin" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon:",
          "text": "\"Is he a relation of ours, too, Cousin Jimmy?\"\n\"Forty-second cousin. Way back he had a cousin of Mary Shipley's for a great-something. […]",
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          "ref": "2019, Sue Lawrence, Down to the Sea:",
          "text": "So Jessie's my second cousin once removed or forty-second cousin or something. Anyway, we're kind-of related.",
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        "Any very distant relative."
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        "(humorous) Any very distant relative."
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          "ref": "1923, Lucy Maud Montgomery, “Chapter 7”, in Emily of New Moon:",
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