Comments on: Find out how you are related to other people in your Ancestry.com Member Tree

By: Debbie Kable

Debbie Kable — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 11:18:25 +0000

I don’t normally comment like this, but I just have to tell you how much I absolutely LOVE this new “how am I related feature” that’s been added. It’s just exactly the kind of feature that I would’ve asked for if I’d known it could be done.
Now, if you can just make it possible to search my tree for people by their locations, I’d be a happy camper!
Keep up the good work.
Debbie Kable

By: Gary Berlucchi

Gary Berlucchi — Wed, 20 Oct 2010 16:41:26 +0000

Maybe you might consider putting who the “Common Ancestor” is in bold type. This would be useful.

By: Adele Anderson

Adele Anderson — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 16:19:39 +0000

Thanks to you all! Just found Ancestry has returned, haven’t even tried it, but wanted to offer my thanks anyway!

By: Kathy Wurth

Kathy Wurth — Sun, 17 Oct 2010 05:11:28 +0000

Love, Love, Love this feature. Has helped me immensely in cleaning up my tree of who and who is really not related. What a great feature. Thank you!

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:48:43 +0000

There is no situation to correct.

The relationship calculator calculates the closest relationship-period.

A relationship (either by blood or marriage) to a third cousin twice removed is a closer relationship than to a third cousin three times removed.

By: MsWinston

MsWinston — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:03:37 +0000

A great tool with some quirks! As others have remarked, sometimes one has more than one relationship to an individual, but the calculator only recognizes one. As an example, I have a female person whose husband is a third cousin 2x removed from me; however, her father is a third cousin 3x removed from me from a different line, but the calculator only recognizes her as the wife of my 3rd cousin 2x removed, and not as an actual “blood” relative. Doing a recalculation did not correct the situation.

By: Eric Stoltz

Eric Stoltz — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 18:23:18 +0000

This is the best feature I’ve seen added in a long time! When I needed to figure out a relationship I always had to stop and open Reunion to figure the relationship. Having it right in front of me on Ancestry is a huge help.

And thanks to those who were quick enough to realize that quotes in the name are what was causing the bug for the relationship feature not to work. I was stumped as to why I could not get the relationship for my great grandaunt Rosario “Rose” Garcia to show! It’s a bit of a pain to revise the name, but working at an Internet company I know these things come up and need fixing once found.

I’ll throw my vote in for the relationship display to be a global option.

Great work, Ancestry!

By: Andy Hatchett

Andy Hatchett — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 17:32:20 +0000

Carol Re: #97

I’m not sure you can. I just did a screen shot and then open it in paint and trim off what I don’t want.

By: Carol Handley

Carol Handley — Fri, 15 Oct 2010 14:54:05 +0000

I love the new added feature “how are you related”. How can I can I make a copy of it without showing the background page? Carol Handley

By: Allen Sutton

Allen Sutton — Thu, 14 Oct 2010 22:41:10 +0000

OOOOOPS!!!!! Well I just needed to do it right. We do have this feature and it is great. THANKS