The Relationship Calculator shows the *closest* blood relationship. An aunt *is* a blood relationship, although not a direct relationship.
As Steve explained, a "24th" is closer than a "27th" Thanks for using Legacy. Sherry Customer Support Millennia Corporation supp...@legacyfamilytree.com http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. -----Original Message----- From: wood...@msn.com [mailto:wood...@msn.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 5:44 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Relationships Incorrect But, as Sherry told me, being a direct ancestor, she should be shown as such. Also, limiting to the closest 150 blood relationships STILL doesn't show her as a direct ancestor. CE -----Original Message----- From: stevevo...@gmail.com [mailto:stevevo...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 2009 5:37 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@LegacyUsers.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Relationships Incorrect I believe there are a few issues here: 1) The relationship is not "incorrect" -- she is your 24th great-grandaunt, as you have stated yourself. She also happens to be your 27th GGM, and the problem is that you would prefer that the program to always select direct lines instead of side-relations in situations where multiple-connections exist. In the case of direct ancestor tagging this is very easy, since you're only tasked with identifying the parents of a limited set of individuals with a known starting point. For relationship calculations it is much messier since you can go in multiple directions. It's the same issue that plagues tree-drawing algorithms once you depart from direct-ancestor diagrams. 2) That said, when counting generational steps a 24th ggrandaunt is actually a closer relationship than 27th GGM. As your 24th ggrandaunt, she is 26 generations back to a common ancestor, and then one generation forward (herself), for a total of 27 steps. To reach your 27th GGM requires 29 steps. (My math might be off slightly here, but the premise remains true even if it's actually 28 and 30 steps.) Thus if you are limiting blood relationships to the closest one I would actually expect the program to identify her as your great-grandaunt before it identifies her as your GGM, because that is the closer relationship. It's an unfortunate side-effect of taking what should be straight-forward computer logic and applying to to fairly extreme and complicated generational distances. -Steve Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergr...@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
