Relationship Finder bug?

Question

Shouldn't adding more IDs to the filter restrict the number of common ancestors, not increase them?

If I visit this URL to find the relationship between [[Walters-4543]] & [[Singleton-3977]] & [[Guillory-1078]] (putting that last ID into the Advanced Filter), I'm told:

2 of the common ancestors were found to also include Anonymous Dupre.

But if I add [[Dupre-1466]] to the Advanced Filter list, I'm told the number of common ancestors has increased:

4 of the common ancestors were found to also include Anonymous Dupre and Anonymous Dupre.

This seems mathematically impossible. Maybe I'm misunderstanding something.

Answer 1

When I visit the URL you first entered, I see the list of people linked and below that is a yellow box with a drop down showing 6 common ancestors.

Then when I enter the Dupre-1466 it shows a second box with a drop dow showing only 4 common ancestors. So that appears to be working as I would expect.

Maybe try again?

Comments

There's a misunderstanding, please add Guillory-1078 to the filter list BEFORE adding Dupre-1466 to the filter list.

The number of shared common ancestors will grow from 2 to 4.