Looking for relationships on my maternal line
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i am having the same issue. all my maternal line is visible on family search and most of them are passed on so would not have opted out. so that reason does not apply for me. what else could be going on? @Áine Ní Donnghaile i found this thread? but not a ton of info on it so maybe you meant something else? by the way love your name (the irish goddess)
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I currently have 15,054 Relatives at RootsTech. Every single one is maternal. My maternal line has been in North America since before the American Revolution. My paternal Irish line began arriving shortly before the American Civil War.
Relatives at RootsTech has been this way every year. Judy G Russell, The Legal Genealogist, and I have a running tally most years. It's the same for her. Her maternal line has been in North America for several centuries. Her father was born in Germany.
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@Áine Ní Donnghaile well thanks for explaining that but that is not exactly helping me understand why my maternal lines are not showing. and to be clear i don't just mean my grandma and her mom and her mom- i mean all the family line connections through both the father and the mother's side. at a certain point it appears to stop tracking the mother line and just focuses on the father line. who can i talk to about this?
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Not a drop of paternal roots.
Location, location, location:
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It's not maternal vs paternal. It's location.
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how do i find that first image you show- where you can choose to view by location, ancestor or family line? i cannot find that. also cannot find the fan chart you posted? is this all in familysearch or is this through relative finder?
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All FamilySearch.
You have the option to view your branch of the FSFT as landscape, portrait, fan, descendancy, or first ancestor.
In Relatives RootsTech, you can view by Location, Ancestor, or Family Line.
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weirdly your images will not show and simply show an hourglass as though they cannot load. ok i know how to find fan in family search i thought that was specific to roots tech. cannot find the place to view by location, ancestor or family line in roots tech though. i will keep trying to find it. thanks
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Refresh the page and/or wait a few minutes. Images have to approved by the Image Moderator Bot.
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ah weird ok thanks. is this roots teach search function something i have to join the event to see? i am seeing something i have to give permission for people all over the world to find me. guessing that that function you show me is not accessible until i opt in? i have seen emails showing me roots tech people i am related to but i think i am not signed up for the full thing.
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I'm sorry, @HMM13. Let me understand: You have been commenting that you don't have Relatives at RootsTech, but you haven't researched to know what constitutes Relatives at RootsTech?
https://www.familysearch.org/en/connect/c808520d-0660-4c10-96b7-7241e6a3acff
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i have been using Relative Finder 2.0. the only thing from Roots Tech i have are emails telling me i am related to people that come from Family Search. but i was told Relative Finder 2.0 is part of Roots Tech. so i think the confusion here is there are many different aspects to these platforms and not all of them are interconnected in a way that is obvious or easily found/accessed from the different offshoots?
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i have never been trying to find relatives at Root Tech. i am trying to find my own family lines on Relative Finder 2.0 and it is missing people
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@HMM13 , you were misinformed. Relative Finder is a product of BYU. It has nothing to do with Relatives at RootsTech, which is a feature of FamilySearch. Both use the same Family Tree, but the technologies used for calculating relationships are entirely different.
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@HMM13 13 You posted on this thread, which pertains only to RootsTech Connect.
You also posted here https://community.familysearch.org/en/discussion/comment/546378#Comment_546378 which ALSO pertains only to RootsTech Connect.
Relative Finder is a 3rd party partner product from BYU, not FamilySearch, and not RootsTech. https://relativefinder.org/#/start
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This video will help you understand Relative Finder: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkKF2H-jJqs
This document will help you understand Relatives at RootsTech: https://www.familysearch.org/en/help/helpcenter/article/relatives-at-rootstech-faq
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Not misinformed. Posting on multiple threads without understanding or saying what/where the issue lies.
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thank you @Alan E. Brown and @Amy Archibald - yes i was misinformed. there was another thread that said they were linked hence why i was on here searching for the three terms - roots tech, relative finder and maternal line. and yes aine- i was posting on threads without understaning - which was why i was asking. kindness goes a long way. thanks everyone. will check the video and link you sent amy <3
part of the confusion is that family search send out emails telling you things that then send you to a page that links to root tech. some of the info they send is related to relative search but then you click on it and it goes to a root tech page. i think that is how i started thinking they were related and then started searching for info on both. so maybe family search should be more clear about what is what.
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FamilySearch offers a tool that allows you to view your relationship with any deceased person that is in the Family Tree or Memories. How do I view my relationship to a person in Family Tree? How do I view my relationship to a person in Memories?
FamilySearch also allows for users to view their relationship with each other. Relationship Viewing: How do I turn on or off the option to view my relationship to other users?
FamilySearch offers a relationship tool call Relatives Around Me - on their Family Tree app. This lets you see living relatives close by you within a specific radius - if all are in the app experience at the same time.
Leading up to the RootsTech conference each year and for a short time after, FamilySearch offers a feature called Relatives at RootsTech on the web browser and Family Tree app. You don't have to be at RootsTech in SLC, nor do you have to participate in RootsTech online in order to participate in this feature. All you have to do is have a FamilySearch account and opt into the feature during the time it is available. This allows you to see living relatives who also have opted into this feature. There are also marketing campaigns during this time to show you how you are related to some living famous people. [Some other events also use this Relatives tool.]
FamilySearch also offers a discovery activity called Famous Relatives that shows you how you are related to some famous deceased persons.
Relative Finder is a BYU product that uses the API from the FamilySearch Family Tree. You can see relationships to deceased persons as set in built in groups provided by the programmers. You can also create groups for living persons to join to see how they are related to each other. You can also create groups of deceased persons to see how you are related to them. You can also search PIDs from FamilySearch and compare how 2 deceased persons are related to each other. And you can see how you are related to living people nearby who are also participating in the experience at the same time. They also have a tool that allows you to use an PID of a deceased person to view relationships (as though you were that person).
Hopefully this helps in understanding the different relationship tools available.
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