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JanetNavin
JanetNavin ✭
February 27 edited May 13 in Family Tree

It seems that the Famous relatives feature is somewhat US/English centric. I have both of my parents in my tree, but ALL of the famous relatives are through my dad's side of the tree.

Buzz Aldrin had Swedish ancestors, as did my mom, In fact, they both had ancestors from the same village in Sweden, and my mom has a DNA match with the last name Aldrin, from that part of Sweden. (I haven't figured out the connection yet.) Why not add some famous people with ancestry from other places?

While I'm at it, why is Daniel Boone not on the list of famous relatives?


Thanks!

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  • Vicky8305
    Vicky8305 ✭
    May 10

    I'm having the same issue. ALL of my famous relatives are through my Dad even though both of my parents are in my tree.

    How do we get our mother's side of famous people? I know there has to be someone on her side!

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 10 edited May 10

    According to FS's Famous Relatives activity, I have no famous relatives.

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    I find it perplexing that people seem to feel that they're entitled to a certain share of them on both sides.

    (Although I wouldn't mind if the activity were brought in line with the "show relationship" algorithm, so that I wouldn't need to fiddle with things in Beta to verify that The Famous Relative is, in fact, on the list.)

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  • ColinCameron
    ColinCameron ✭✭✭
    May 10

    My wachlist of relatives is overflowing (4000 people) and there are way more than the same again that I have dealt with (so somewhere around the 10,000 mark) and still not one of them rich or famous.

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