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Confused again re pool numbers. I have just added a number of individuals, mainly Dawsons, who are NOT related to my file root, Elijah Washington Sherwood, directly.

'No direct relationship found between Mary Harriet DAWSON and Elijah Washington SHERWOOD.

Mary Harriet DAWSON is cousin of Adelbert William NORTH and Adelbert William NORTH is husband of great granddaughter of Elijah Washington SHERWOOD'

Yet all of these Dawsons show up in Pool 1. What am I missing here?  

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Forgot to mention that I have V 5.0.6!

The key is in the word 'direct'. Your How Related report says there is no direct relationship between the two individuals, but it does show an indirect relationship, via a marrige between Adelbert William NORTH and the great granddaughter of Elijah Washington SHERWOOD.

Pool numbers are defined as follows:
'2 individuals belong to the same pool if they are related to one another directly or indirectly.'

This means that they don't use the same definition as an All Relatives diagram, for which a relative is any blood relative or spouse of a blood relative. Pools go further, and include blood relatives of the spouses of blood relatives, etc.

It has to work this way, because Adelbert William NORTH and his wife are in the same pool, and nobody can belong to more than one pool (they themselves join the pools together).