Relatives

rutter

When the Olympics were on I found some of my relatives who won Olympic medals under the the famous relatives under activities. Now they are not there. What happened ?? Where did they go, I can't find them. I sure want to view them again.

Thanks. (name removed) Rutter (email removed)

Graham Buckell

Did you record how you were related to these people?

Where links are many generations back, as is often the case, chances increase that someone may come along and change or break a link somewhere in the chain.

Ashlee C.

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rutter

I know I am related cause when I search for them on the " person " page it shows how we are related .Where did they go ??? I can't remember the whole list . Nothing changed. Just after the Olympics the names of my Olympic relatives were removed . I would like to see them again. Thanks

Áine Ní Donnghaile

Most genealogy websites offer short-term special features, such as showing how we may be related to a certain group during a relevant event. For example, during the Olympics, one of the for-pay websites offered a stylized Olympics sports card with ethnicity percentages.

Such a feature may come around again, but those short-term concepts are not intended to be permanent.

rutter

l don't know what you are talking about. My question is to Family Search, not pay for sites out there . You are not answering my question. It is a simple question. Where are my famous relatives on your site, Family Search ??? Don't tell me they are short lived short term. All my other famous relatives are still showing up since I first saw them.

Julia Szent-Györgyi

@rutter, Áine — like almost everyone here — is just another user of FamilySearch. It is no more her website than it is yours.

The Famous Relatives feature, like everything under Activities, is just a fluffy bit of human interest clickbait. It consistently tells me that I have no famous relatives. (They've fixed the wording slightly; it no longer implies that I have no relatives at all.)

I presume that for the Olympics, they must have temporarily added some Olympians to their list of famous people, but once the event was over, they culled the list to their more usual level of fame.

Áine Ní Donnghaile

@rutter My apologies if my response was not clear. I used the example the other website to indicate that such a practice happens everywhere and is short-term, not permanent.