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Recalculating Relationships

Recalculating Relationships

Posted: 1 Nov 2014 4:34AM GMT
Classification: Query
I have been trying to pare down the extraneous people from one of my trees, and have had pretty good luck. Today, however, I frequently get this message: "It looks like an error occurred while calculating your relationship. Please try again." So I do try again, and lose the relationship I had. Is this something that just happened system-wide, or is it just happening to my tree?

Re: Recalculating Relationships

Posted: 4 Nov 2014 3:20AM GMT
Classification: Query
Edited: 4 Nov 2014 3:26AM GMT
When you say "pare down" do you mean you are deleting the people from your tree?

Also, are you talking about Ancestry.com trees online? or Family Tree Maker trees?

Re: Recalculating Relationships

Posted: 4 Nov 2014 11:19AM GMT
Classification: Query
By "pare down" I mean yes, I am deleting some people from one of my trees--the very first one I did before I really knew what I was doing. I created many duplicates, and want to get rid of them. I work only on ancestry.com at this point.

Thanks for responding!

Sally

Re: Recalculating Relationships

Posted: 4 Nov 2014 2:42PM GMT
Classification: Query
It's not happening in my tree, so I don't think it's a system glitch.

Perhaps you deleted folks who are between you and the "target" relative.

Maybe merging your duplicates would be a better option than deleting...?

Re: Recalculating Relationships

Posted: 4 Nov 2014 4:14PM GMT
Classification: Query
Obviously I'm not really sure what I'm doing here yet. As to your suggestions, most of the deletions have been at the end of a line. Oddly, some come right after a parent who does show up as a bona fide relationship--a 9th great grant, for instance. (In other words, their parents pass the "recalculating relationships" test.") As for merging, the duplicates aren't completely the same. Is there some way of knowing which is real?

Re: Recalculating Relationships

Posted: 4 Nov 2014 4:34PM GMT
Classification: Query
I'm not sure what you mean by "which is real"?

Re: Recalculating Relationships

Posted: 4 Nov 2014 5:34PM GMT
Classification: Query
I regretted that choice of words as soon as I hit "send." It's very hard to ask these questions online. I guess my biggest question is why the "recalculating relationships" button may work with a parent, but not with his/her direct offspring. The rest I have to figure out for myself. All I know is that the first tree I did in my inexperience ended up with almost 4,000 people in it. The second tree, which I put together after I'd been doing this awhile, had only about 900 people. What I am doing now is keeping only those who are directly related to me--not all their brothers and sisters.

Re: Recalculating Relationships

Posted: 4 Nov 2014 6:41PM GMT
Classification: Query
Maybe you've unattached children from parents, but they are still in the tree? That would disrupt the relationship calculations.

Also, where is the "recalculating relationships" button or feature? I only know of the "View relationship to me" feature.

Re: Recalculating Relationships

Posted: 4 Nov 2014 10:05PM GMT
Classification: Query
"Recalculating Relationships" happens when you get "No Relationship to You," then click on "View Relationship to Me" and watch it try to find you. Sometimes it can; often it can't. And no, I'm pretty careful who I detach from whom.

Thanks for all your help.

Re: Recalculating Relationships

Posted: 4 Nov 2014 10:23PM GMT
Classification: Query
Well, I'm all out of ideas. :( I hope you can get it straightened out.
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