Relationship finder
The relationship finder is fun but I think it would be nice to see all (or top three) relationships. Add it is now, things are not ideal. For example, when I do relationship find on GCDL-D54, it shows his wife is my 7th cousin, not saying I am related to him except by marriage. But if I run relationship finder on his parents, I find I am blood related to him as 11th cousin.
Also I would like to be able to run relationship finder on any two IDs, not just between me and someone else.
Thoughts?
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FamilySearch personnel can find the relationship between any two arbitrary individuals in Family Tree. I suspect if they wanted to, they could make that capability available to the standard mortal.
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FS staff probably uses exactly the same third-party tool that you can use for the purpose: RelativeFinder.
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Yes! Exactly! It is so frustrating the way it is. You have said it perfectly. My husband’s line will come up but I know the ancestor is probably in mine separately. And yes, it would be brilliant to be able to identify relationships between any two IDs.
Family Search, is there any way to fix this to make the site more substantive and informative?
Cheers!
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One of the problems with this is that FamilySearch considers any kind of connection, such as foster, adopted and guardian as a valid relationship finder connection. They shouldn't be. Every RootsTech I sign up for the relative finder, and for the past several years the two closest related people actually descend from the guardian parents of my great grandmother. Sigh; not relatives at all. If their algorithms would start recognizing those kinds of connections and exclude them from the finder rules, we might have better results. Connections through your spouse is a questionable one with arguments for and against, but I would support excluding that relationship as well.
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