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Ability to Show Multiple Paths At Once, or to Choose Which to Show At Different Times

Wendy Ann Hoechstetter

June 01, 2014 01:55

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I have found that I am related in multiple ways through both my father's and my mother's families to many people, and would love to be able to view both (or all) such paths.

I realized this when a path through my mother showed to one person, who is a curator here, who has helped me quite a lot - and then once I traced the family line on my father's side, with her help, we learned that we are even more closely related on that side.

Which is great, but then we could no longer see the first path, which is still just as valid, because it's longer than the newer-found one.

I've also found innumerable other interrelationships between my father's and my mother's trees.

It would be great to be able to either see all such paths at once, or at least to be able to somehow select which one we want to see, on a case-by-case basis, so that none get lost as happened with the situation I mentioned above, especially with people we actually know and want to track the relationships with.

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  Wendy Ann Hoechstetter June 01, 2014 01:57

  In my case at least, this would greatly help in being able to identify if other people with similar last names to mine are related to my family of the same name.

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  Jarrett Ross (112-1701-241-22) December 27, 2015 15:46

  I think this would be a great feature to add. A great format for this would be to show the closest path in the profile (as it is now) but then have a link to show other paths through blood lines. I could see this being difficult because while many people share multiple direct blood-relations I'd assume there are also dozens or hundreds of ways to link to them through indirect paths as well (i.e. 1st Cousin's Husband's Grandfather's Wife's nephew's 2nd cousin). I'm not sure how hard it would be to make sure the only other multiple paths shown are through blood relation although I'd imagine it could definitely be done. 

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  Maven B. Helms December 31, 2015 03:22

  Another option I would like to see is the ability to "lock out" a specific profile from your personal path algorithm, if you suspect it's a bad link but you don't want to go through the extended hassle of getting enough other people to agree and get the relationship cut.