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list of repeated Ancestors

LegacyUser
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December 13, 2020 edited December 13, 2020 in Suggest an Idea

As I am doing my research, I am finding that I descend from multiple children of the same ancestor. It would be interesting to be able to see a list of those people. It would help to avoid double entries and be a fun list to show how sides are related.


I found that my sister married our first cousin ever so distant back in 1630's. Fun stuff to know.

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  • A van Helsdingen
    A van Helsdingen ✭✭✭✭
    December 13, 2020

    Many people eventually encounter "pedigree collapse"- when the number of unique ancestors in each generation no longer follows the exponential 2,4,8,16,32,64 ... pattern. For me personally, I appear to have 256 unique 6xgreat-grandparents, but less than 512 in the next generation.


    What you suggest should be reasonably straightforward for FS to achieve, but the question is whether this is a high-enough priority and if FS has the resources to do it.

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  • JeffWiseman
    JeffWiseman ✭✭✭
    December 14, 2020

    So are you surprised to discover that you are your own cousin?


    :-)

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  • Miss Jessie
    Miss Jessie ✭✭✭
    December 14, 2020
    Reoccurring personThe person appears in more than one place in the pedigree, but not in loop.


    Family Tree has a list of possible data problems.


    A Reoccurring Person data problem can be dismissed for those instances where you are related to a person in more than one way, for example when cousins marry.

    See https://www.familysearch.org/help/helpcenter/article/what-are-all-the-possible-data-problems-in-family-tree

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