I think that I have been misunderstanding the meaning to the value
we set for relationships, partly because there seem to be no definition
of what it means that I can find in the help system.
I had assumed that it was the number of steps between people, so my
father is step 1, my grandfather is step 2 (F->G), my uncle is step 3
(F->G->U) and my cousin in step 4 (F->G->U->C). Hence I would use a
large number to be able to locate my 3rd cousin 3 times removed - 11
steps.
Having been playing with the values and seeing what the effect was,
I now suspect that it is looking for multiple, different paths between
people, of which there are very few in my tree. They would generally be
the descendants of a marriage between cousins with two different routes
back to a common ancestor.
My apologies if I have been misleading in the past.
Regards
Chris
------ Original Message ------
From: "Cathy Pinner" <[email protected]>
To: "Legacy User Group" <[email protected]>
Sent: 14/03/2021 06:44:12
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Relationships
The default is 5. That's fine for my file of about 20,000 people. I
don't have much pedigree collapse, no endogamy and I'm not back into
royal genealogies.
In my friend's file where there are many aristocratic/royal lines
entered, I found I stopped getting more relationships between two
people when it was set to 30 so I wouldn't go any higher.
Whether it matters to set it higher depends on your computer. Unless
your computer has a heap of RAM, it takes much longer to set
relationships if you jump to 999. The number relates to the number of
checks that are made for alternative lines between the people in your
database.
There is no point in upping the non-blood in set relationships from the
default 2 as only the very closest non-blood - spouses and close
in-laws are included. There is a point to upping it in the Relationship
Calculator.
Cathy
Chris Hill <mailto:[email protected]>
Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:37
The usual recommendation seems to be set it to 10 - 20, on the basis
that your family tree will not be that complex in terms of the number
of generations that it needs to work through looking for a common
ancestor. My largest line is about 14 generations.
That said, I always run with 999 blood and 5 non-blood relationships,
and it does not seem to impact the performance.
I suppose that it would cause issues if your tree had weird, and
probably invalid, links to work through.
Regards
Chris
From my Motorola G6+
Leo MacDonald <mailto:[email protected]>
Thursday, 11 March 2021 22:13
When setting up the Set Relationships for a person under the Blood
Relationships section, a number from 1-999 can be entered, I was
wondering how many most researchers enter, I have mine set at 6, I'm
not sure if I'm too low.
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