Legacy's relationship calculator problem shows up when the common ancestor has one or two marriages BETWEEN the marriages that produced the descendants for the relationship calculation. Order of spouses in the spouse list is the critical factor, not the dates of the marriage.
A descendant book report produced by any genealogy program is expected to have a way to list children in birth date order and multiple marriages in the correct order. Some researchers chose to sort their own ancestor first.
Relationship calculation was discussed on the Legacy list in Mary 2004 and Sid sent me a copy of his real file. Sid's ancestor was married three times. Sid and another researcher are descendants of the first and third marriages entered into Legacy with dates. The relationship calculator loses one of the ancestors on _one_ side when the relationship chart is swapped.
In real life, Sid and the researcher-cousin are related the same way regardless of how many times their common ancestor was married or the order of those marriages.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Brendan Caley"
I find that the relationship calculator works OK for me. Have used the Potential Problems Report to check your data. This may help.
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