Family search tree ALWAYS chooses the wrong wife. How do I stop that?
Every time I do "relatives around me", or "people I am related to", the search engine ignores my real (and preferred) upline, grabs another wife of my great grandfather, and runs comparisons from there. I want to set it so it quits doing that. How?
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Those relationships will be calculated by finding a common ancestor, through any of the parental relationships that exist in your tree. It will never use a different spouse (couple relationship) to make those calculations, but it will use different parents (parent-child relationship). It calculates the closest relationship using all available parent-child relationships. It doesn't ignore any relationships, but it may use other relationships that produce a shorter relationship path.
So if you think it's using a different wife of your great-grandfather, then what you should look at is the parents of your grandfather or grandmother who is the child of that great-grandfather. You will find that that child has multiple parents. Perhaps someone created a step or adoptive parent relationship to the wife you are concerned about. If that is not a real relationship, then you can remove it.
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