Am I related to famous person searching selective genetic lines?
I’m adopted and have both adopted and dna relatives on tree.
I want to search for famous ancestors only considering my dna relatives, how may I do this please?
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FamilySearch will look for famous relatives via links in Family Tree. If you have linked yourself to both adopted and biological parents on Family Tree, the system will show both. You will need to check each one to determine which set of parents you trace your link through.
A more extreme option is to temporarily unlink yourself from your adopted parents, check your famous relatives, then relink yourself. Exercise care here as I am not sure whether the system will respond to the change in links immediately or whether there is some delay.
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Thank you so much this is exactly as I thought except I wasn’t sure if it only calculated one line. I did indeed investigate each one individually and sadly none of the amazing ancestors are giving me any part of their elite DNA and there are so many incredible humans on the list .
The risk of unlinking also crossed my mind more than once and I dared not. I am very new here and I do not wish to upset anything, it’s seemingly domino ish in its effect when one changes anything, and destructive actions by me are all too easy. Thank you again Graham, now that I know it will list through all streams my curiosity can be put to rest. My genius mother whom adopted me is the only link to a whole bunch of geniuses and royalty and I shall suffice with being slightly less of an intellectual and happy to be from a magnificent yet slightly less significantly important gene pool 😃0 -
Chances are high that you are linked to many famous relatives through your biological lines - it is just a case of not discovering the links yet!
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@Graham Buckell, chances are high — if your (genetic) ancestry is mostly in the United States. There are exceedingly few non-Americans on FS's famous people list; I don't connect to a single one. (Granted, given FS's "must share a common ancestor" algorithm, I probably wouldn't find anyone even if they added the entire contents of every European "Who's Who" list: on most of my lines, it is simply not possible to get any further back than the early-to-mid 1700s, which is later than most people's shared ancestors.)
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My ancestry is almost exclusively English, at least in the last few centuries. My famous relatives include a lot of Americans but also quite a few English and the odd European.
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