Family Historian User Group

I have an I5 vpro. 64 bit windows. all up to date FH 6.2.6 .
I tried the diagrams window and it spends most of its time in FH (not responding)

but the thing that would be really useful, is lets say I have a 5th cousin 5 times removed.

select him from the list, and select me, and see the minimal pruned tree of how we got there. FH already knows it, just no lovely way of displaying it.

so, for any two people, show the minimal relationship between them, either like the diagram screens or even like the ancestor or the register like screen from the focus window.

It would be horridly useful in genealogy and research.

Use Ctrl-click to select the two Individuals in the Records window and then use How Related… on the Tools menu. Then you can click on Display Graphically.

Thats better, I sure could use a lot of pruning so I could just see the minimal relations.

But............now the loopy and diamond lines I gotta figure out.

I suspect you are talking what we call 'coloured ribbons' linking the same person/family appearing twice in the diagram due to complex relationships such as ancestral cousins marrying each other.