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View Relationship may be broken or limited (my relationship to an ancestor)

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May 11 edited May 13 in Family Tree

I'm at the husband of my grandaunt, I click on View Relationship and see my relationship to him - about 4 hops away. All is good.

Next I go to his parent and click on View Relationship. I now get the "It appears your tree does not have enough generations added to find a shared relative, or the shared relative is beyond 15 generations." message.

I'm only about 5 hops away from my grandaunt's father-in-law. Is there some barrier I've passed here?

Also - the Learn More link following that message is 404. "Well this is unexpected..."

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  • Julia Szent-Györgyi
    Julia Szent-Györgyi ✭✭✭✭✭
    May 11 Answer ✓

    Yup: it's not direct enough for FS's tastes. By their algorithm's definitions, you're related to everyone directly connected to you (i.e. by blood/adoption/parenting) plus their spouses, but not to the spouses' ancestors.

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