* Relation Diagram

[Fuego]

Occasionally I get a query from someone, asking how we are related.

What would be ideal is to send them a diagram showing only the individuals that figure in the connection, back up to the common ancestors.

Any one have a way to do this please, without creating a copy gedcom and deleting out indivuals that you don't want to see in the diagram?

If not, it would be a nice diagram option. Alternatively, if diagrams allowed one to click on a box and hide it from the diagram, that might work also.


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[Jane]

Not currently, what I do is to use the How Related Query.

If you want to do a diagram you could turn off the branches you don't need and use the mark function to show the linking boxes in a different colour.

I think what you are suggesting is already on the Wish List.

Its fairly easy to write a common ancestors query to find all the people who are shared.

[Fuego]

If you want to do a diagram you could turn off the branches you don't need and use the mark function to show the linking boxes in a different colour.

Not really practical with the example I've just been asked about, where I am a 3rd cousin 3 times removed and there are numerous large families linking us. The diagram ends up extremely wide, about 50 x 8, even with all unneccessary branches collapsed, where it actually only needs to be 7 individuals x 8 generations in size, in this particular case.

I think the quickest approach might be to pull out the relations in a query and produce a temporary trimmed-down GEDCOM file from which to produce the diagram.

[Fuego]

Hmmm, finding the common ancestors is easy enough. Finding the ancestors that are direct descendants of those common ancesters and only back to the two individuals concerned, appears a little trickier within the same query.

Anyone have any suggestions please?