Is there a way of seeing if a person is 3X great grandparent twice?

Question

I did a relationship to me on a person who is a 3x great grandfather through two lines, but it only shows one.

Answer 1

Hi Keith, the "relationships" finder shows your parents are 3rd. cousins. If you haven't tried this, go to the drop-down menu "Find" near the top right corner, select "Relationships" and enter both WikiTree-ID´s  of your parents: Oliver Herrin Griffith-2951 is the second great grandfather of both of them.

Additionally, in the "Compact Family Tree" view of your own profile you'll find Oliver Herrin Griffith as Ahnentafel Nos. 36 and 56 because he is your father's and also your mother's ancestor. So Oliver is your ancestor twice.

Comments

My Parents are 9th cousins.  I am my own 5th cousin and multiple distant cousin.

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This only works because you already know the answer - the two lines go one through each parent.  If both lines were through the mother - perhaps it was her parents that had each had a relationship to the 3rd great grandfather - checking the relationship of the two parents wouldn't show anything useful at all.

Scanning the compact family tree view gets a bit eye straining, and since the unique profile numbers aren't shown, you still have to do a little bit of work on each line to make sure they're actually a match and not just different people with the same name.  When I'm staring at a pile of Durbins and Logsdons, or seemingly endless numbers of Lathrop/Lothrop/Lothroppes, it gets quite frustrating.

Answer 2

usually, if there is more than one path, you can select the other path(s) from the drop-down list on the right

Comments

I don't think this is right.  If you have multiple ancestors in common, it will allow you to select different common ancestors, some older than others; but it will only show a single path to each ancestor.

Answer 3

Not directly, no, there isn't.  You can scan the Compact Family Tree for duplicates.  You *can't* scan the Family List, because it only shows one copy of each ancestor, regardless of pedigree collapse.

Basically, without painstakingly tracing all the lines manually, no.

Logsdon-276 is at least my 3x 7th great grandfather, for example.  I have to track that myself.

Edited to add:  This would be really useful to have with DNA, because DNA Triangulation Groups + intermarriage == very complicated.