I found that I am 4th cousins with a particular person, through RootsTech. I wrote to her. She asked

Karen_Niehaus

Dennis J Yancey

there are a few ways

 

one way is for her to give you the PID of of a deceased person in her family line

and then you can lookup that person using that ID

 

see:

https://community.familysearch.org/s/feed/0D53A00004nyuo2SAA

 

Amy Archibald

If you have messaged her, then click on her name in the messaging feature and if both of you have turned on the relationship setting, you can see you direct relationship to her.

LegacyUser

Thankk you, Amy! :-)

LegacyUser

Thank you for your help, Dennis. :-)