list of repeated Ancestors

LegacyUser

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.

A van Helsdingen

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.

JeffWiseman

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

:-)

Miss Jessie

Reoccurring person

The 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