The PEDIGREE view allows you to see siblings or children of one person much easier than the FAMILY view. You have to roll your cursor over the person whose children/siblings you want to see.

Click on the “View his/her family tree” in the pop-up (it will also put that person in the root position). You will see the spouse and children. If you want the siblings, click on the word “Siblings” after the list of children and you will get the siblings.

I had to practice the procedure to see what Ancestry is trying to get us to do. Sometimes I think they are a little nutty out there in Provo. Not enough oxygen in the high desert.

I feel like I’m in a labyrinth in the program. Most of the new features I just don’t need or use but I want to know how they work.

Sorry, I can’t answer your last question.

I can see a list of people in a public tree. To the right of the owner’s username is: “Find a person in this tree.” The dropdown gives 3 options (used to be 4, but I can’t remember what is now missing). You can go to home person; go to last viewed; or list all people. The last one being how I get the list.

If you are not getting at least these 3 options, something is wrong with how your system gets Ancestry. I don’t have any other suggestions. Good luck.

You are welcome. Glad to be of help.

But it can also be tough to work with since it includes 5 generations (if that many are known) and if some/many of them had many many siblings — which makes the display quite large and hard to work with (Yes I know you can enlarge and just look at part — but it is hard to just stay there) — so can you give us back the option we had before, to as an alternative only see 3 or 4 generations — rather than 5. Also, in the prior version you had the option to toggle whether to show/hide siblings.

Also, does the person you pick have to be in the middle row if they both have ancestors and descendants –rather than allowing you to move them to top ro bottom if you more interested in descendants or ancestors, respectively.

Hope this helps. I did it several times and it works fine. Go slowly and allow time for screen changes.

1. Click on “Family Trees”
2. Open the tree you want.
3. Click “Tree Pages”
4. Click “Tree Settings”
5. Click “Change” on the right side of screen under “Your home person in this tree.”
6. Enter new name or browse list (easiest).
7. “Select” the new home person in the list.
8. Click “Select” (orange button in next screen, lower left)
9. Go to “Find a person in this tree” box.
10. Select “Home person” in the dropdown and you should be back to the new home person for that tree.