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August 1, 2014 edited September 28, 2020 in Suggest an Idea
Jason Ray Lundell said: Relationship calculator - the PAF program allowed a person to calculate the relationship between two individuals in the same family tree. This functionality would be great to add to FamilySearch.org, especially when going research on lines extending back multiple generations. An automated calculation is much easier than a cumbersome manual calculation.
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  • LegacyUser
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    July 31, 2014
    Shanna Jones said: That is probably on the engineers' to do list, but you can go to: http://roots-fb.cs.byu.edu/index.html which is Relative Finder. It was built by the BYU Family History Technology Lab. It says: Relative Finder is a place where you can see how you're related to the world. Discover connections between you, presidents, prophets, and your friends! As always, we are making family history fun and accessible for the young and old.
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  • LegacyUser
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    August 1, 2014
    S. said: that is a fun place to go to and find famous people, but I hope and pray they put it in because it is really need for many reasons.
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  • LegacyUser
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    August 1, 2014
    Ken D in Australia said: This request is currently being made in several places in this blog. Knowing how I'm related to someone I entered a couple of years ago, and have just reopened, would be very helpful to me. I don't need a technical relationship term. Perhaps just knowing how the person is related to one of my direct line ancestors would be sufficient.
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  • DavidHemsley
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    September 13, 2021 edited September 13, 2021

    The Relationship calculator has a design flaw, it uses marriage relationships where available. I believe we need to know the blood line relationships, which are different. Here is an example:

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    Hyrum and Joseph Smith Jr are brothers, so I should have the same relationship to both.

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  • dontiknowyou
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    September 16, 2021 edited September 16, 2021

    I use RelativeFinder for this. Here is an example result from their Connect Two Deceased tool, where I have selected one common ancestor:

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    But there is also a list of other common ancestors:

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    And the list of common ancestors can be very, very long. Try GWB6-MFZ and LB1V-QR2, two descendants of Swiss immigrants to the United States. They are 6th cousins who have over 140 distant common ancestors.

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  • Gordon Collett
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    September 18, 2021

    Also, the relationship calculator stops at the first relationship found. It does not find all of them. I suspect, but will let you do the charting, that if you draw out these two relationships lines, there are fewer steps to get to your 3rd-great-grandaunt then it is to get to a 4th cousin five times removed.

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  • dontiknowyou
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    September 18, 2021

    Also, the relationship calculator stops at the first relationship found.

    For the additional relationships there is RelativeFinder.

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  • EaseYeah
    EaseYeah ✭
    May 29, 2022

    How am I related to: Gedalia Shlomo Yahya Navarro ha Zaken The Elder, Tamar Bat Musaphia Heni

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