Does this mean that?

[shadowwind2112]

After doing an awful lot of research, cross checking etc, I have found that someone who I have known for the past 8 to 9 years, is in my family tree, all be it they are related to me via my Great Grand Aunt's Husband. When I click on the person who is related to me, it says the following,

5th cousin of wife of 2nd cousin 4x removed of husband of 2nd cousin of husband of great-grandaunt

So does that mean the person is a distant cousin of mine? If not, distantly related to me.

[oldohiohome]

Short version: They don't look like a blood relation. There are marriages in between.

Your great-grandaunt had a husband. He had a female 2nd cousin. She had a husband. He had a male 2nd cousin 4x removed. He had a wife. Your friend is a 5th cousin of the wife.

However, if both your families have lived in the same area for a long time, or are from the same area in another country, you could be blood related more closely than that.

[Gadget]

A quick read of it suggests a relationship via husbands and wives. They would be affines (related through marriage)  not kin.

What program/app are you using to do your tree and produced that connection?

Gadget

Add - I have husband of xxx or wife of yyyy  via Family Historian but I've not found such a mixture as you have!

[Ian Nelson]

I've just received my regular email from Wikitree which shows connections through marriages to prominent characters of the world.   This week, Elvis Presley is one of my Cousin Connections, 29th Distant.  It seems that we are all related through marriages - one world family.
cheers, your very distant cousin, Ian

[Annie65115]

Just for fun, and because I could see there was distant vague link, I put a certain famous person into my tree.

Ancestry tells me that said famous person is the 4th great-grandnephew of the wife of the 2nd great-grandfather of the husband of my 4th cousin 1x removed.

Said famous person is Prince William ---- hm, not sure I can claim royal association with such a vague link!

[shadowwind2112]

Short version: They don't look like a blood relation. There are marriages in between.

Your great-grandaunt had a husband. He had a female 2nd cousin. She had a husband. He had a male 2nd cousin 4x removed. He had a wife. Your friend is a 5th cousin of the wife.

However, if both your families have lived in the same area for a long time, or are from the same area in another country, you could be blood related more closely than that.

But does it mean that I am related to them via Marriges that have happened?

[Gadget]

Well, they wouldn't be described as husband or wife unless they were married to someone.

[Rosinish]

5th cousin of wife of 2nd cousin 4x removed of husband of 2nd cousin of husband of great-grandaunt

So does that mean the person is a distant cousin of mine? If not, distantly related to me.

The person is related through marriages to the husband of your g g/aunt whereas she is your relation i.e. you are not related to each other as the link is through marriages only, not blood.

Annie

[Gadget]

I'm not sure that the OP is reading the replies, Annie 

A quick read of it suggests a relationship via husbands and wives. They would be affines (related through marriage)  not kin.