Annoying - but chronic and boring - double connection issue and cousin marriages

Started by Todd Michael Edelman on Monday, July 20, 2015

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Todd Michael Edelman

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Jonathan Scott Krengel

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Hatte Anne Blejer

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Eliazur Groszman

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Todd Michael Edelman

7/20/2015 at 2:07 PM

Hi,

As we know we can "Push Pin" a Profile temporarily to see how we connect with someone other then ourselves, but also Geni finds the shortest path between any two profiles.

So now if I connect to this person Eliazur Groszman it shows that he is my cousin's wife, and not a blood relation, but he IS! (His father's aunt is my ggg-grandmother). I entered Eliazur's and his father's profile two weeks ago, and there are no reload path symbols. ) Even Eliazur's father my ggg-grandmother's blood nephew, is not shown as my blood relative, and my ggg-grandmother is closer in steps than Eliazur. I added some profiles to this immediate family today but it should not have altered the existing path, which may have shown that Eliazur was a blood relative, not sure.

Thanks.

Jonathan Scott Krengel PRO

7/20/2015 at 3:35 PM

I know the weighting of marriage relationships is heavier than blood relationships, but this may be a spot where you are closer to Eliazur by marriage than by blood even with the extra weight.

Geni's relationship calculator has always been designed to show the shortest path. It has never been described as a blood relationship calculator.

I've seen some oddball connections due to caching that refreshing the cache fixes it, but that's not what is happening here. The problem here is user expectations.

I would agree with you that a near identical tool that only searches bloodlines would be a handy tool.

Todd Michael Edelman

7/20/2015 at 4:47 PM

OK. Right now it says that the son of my 4th uncle is my first cousin thrice removed's husband's father.

I am glad that no one uses Geni to determine blood relationships before having children with someone.

Private User

1/6/2019 at 6:03 AM

Is there a way in Geni to list all the first-cousin-marriages near some focus person?

Hatte Anne Blejer C

1/6/2019 at 2:53 PM

Private User That's a great idea for us descendants of Jews in Eastern Europe in the villages where cousin marriages were usual. I think you can do an ancestry report and see for yourself, but that's not straight forward.

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