How do I find my relationship to my spouse?
How do I see all of the ways I am related to my wife five generations ago in New England and beyond. FS/FT now only tells me that she is my wife. It would be nice to know, since both of our family lines include New England Allen families, but we haven't found a connection yet.
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If you have the mobile app, there is a section called "Relatives around me". If you both use it at the same time, it should show your relationship.
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If you use any desktop genealogical software (Family Tree Maker, Legacy, RootsMagic), it can show multiple relationships.
My maternal grandparents were 3rd cousins, along with multiple other relationships.
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I believe the third-party site RelativeFinder (https://www.relativefinder.org/#/home) can do this, using the data in FamilySearch's Family Tree.
(I'm somewhat uncertain because I have never been able to come up with a pair of IDs for which it came up with more than one relationship, if that.)
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@Milton A Maughan said "FS/FT now only tells me that she is my wife."
How are you looking for this relationship? When I go to my wife's profile page and choose View Relationship, I see my cousin relationship to her.
This has always been the way it has worked in Family Tree -- I've never seen a relationship that says she is my wife. Family Tree makes a special case for your spouse to only show the cousin relationship, not the obvious spouse relationship.
Of course, Family Tree only shows the closest relationship; other helpful comments above suggest ways you might find a variety of relationships, but none of those use FamilySearch.org exclusively.
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After reading Alan's comment, I thought that maybe it says wife as a last resort, if it can't find anything else, so I created a fake wife for myself and clicked view relationship, and it said there was no relation. So I don't know how you got that result either.
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