How can I quickly locate the ancestor who is the furthest back in time on my family tree?
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There really isn't any way. And if there was, you probably couldn't trust it. There is a lot of very questionable genealogy around so if some routine spit out a name, you would then have to go carefully back each generation verifying sources, which gets really hard when all of a sudden a third of the way back there are none. Be skeptical of any lines you do stumble on. A few years ago when fiddling around here in Family Tree seeing what kinds of lines I could follow back from my wife, I found a line that went back to Odin, not some semi-historical ancient norse king, but THE Odin. I wish I had recorded how I got there, but I didn't.
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You could use the Puzzilla partner website. Display your ancestor tree to, say, 10 generations, and then display the ancestor tree of any ancestor in that generation.
But, as @Gordon Collett explained, it is largely an exercise in fantasy.
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Many thanks to both of you; appreciated 😊
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a link about Puzzilla
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Another option:
Install the free essential version of RootsMagic 8 on your computer. Then in RootsMagic open a new file and import from Family Tree. Use as starter PID your own PID. Set RootsMagic to import 99 generations of ancestors and 0 descendants. Turn off all the checkboxes; any extraneous data will slow down the tree import. Let it run. It could run for hours, so plan accordingly. Then use RootsMagic filters to find the earliest profiles.
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