I think the Relationship Calculator is, in theory, a great tool. I really
like the charts it produces showing the relationships of distant cousins.
HOWEVER, I have almost stopped using it because it is so rife with errors
and has been from at least Legacy 5.0. The most obvious is that, with some
multiple relationships, if you click the "Swap" button, different
relationships are displayed, which is wrong. Less obvious problems can be
found if one traces relationships by hand and then uses the calculator. I
found one case where a generation was skipped. The problems are
ongoing--Legacy has solved some, but others persist. Every time I look at
it and try different relationships, I find more problems. There was a
thread on this subject in Aug 2006. Some of the problems discussed then
involved 1/2 relationships and some of those have been fixed, but I can
still produce at least one.
I hope that Legacy can do a thorough redesign of the RC soon and it becomes
a reliable tool.
John S. Adams
Hermosa Beach, CA
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From: "CE WOOD" <wood...@msn.com>
Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 1:02 PM
To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Incorrect Relationships
Unfortunately, this is not the case. Direct ancestors are not being
identified correctly, such as my 27th GGF. His mother is shown as my 24th
GGA; his father as my 2nd cousin 23 times removed, and Relationship
Calculator says there is no relationship between father and son, between
mother and son, or between husband and wife!
And that's just one of the messed up ones. It also happens as close as my
6th GGParents!
Brian is now working on it, but if anyone else is having problems with
incorrect relationships, it would help them find the bug.
Carolyn
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