# Any adepts at Ancestry.com here?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-adepts-at-ancestry-com-here/977248>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [December 29, 2022, 1:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-adepts-at-ancestry-com-here/977248 "2022-12-29T01:11:03Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\
**Post date:** [January 2, 2023, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-adepts-at-ancestry-com-here/977248/21 "2023-01-02T17:07:12Z")

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> [@naita](#):
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> the graphical representation of part or all of your tree

Yes, this is what I mean.

I’ve speculated, without much basis, how the two branches are related (positing that someone on the floating branch is a sibling of someone on my tree, but only because they share a similar last name and a decade of birth) just for the sake of convenience.

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**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 10:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-adepts-at-ancestry-com-here/977248/22 "2023-01-05T10:21:08Z")

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Now I’ve got a new problem–when I pulled up my family tree, I got only me and my immediate line (parents and grandparents) rather than all 250+ relatives. Everything I’ve tried just gives me different configurations of this very limited set. Where did all my in-laws’ cousins’ in-laws go, and how do I get them back?

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**Author:** ![naita](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/naita/32/5862_2.png) [@naita](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/naita)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-adepts-at-ancestry-com-here/977248/23 "2023-01-05T14:57:17Z")

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Did you switch it to pedigree view? Top left corner, symbols for generations going left-right or up-down. The left-right view shows only your pedigree, the up-down shows family.

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**Author:** ![slicedalone](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slicedalone/32/12515_2.png) [@slicedalone](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slicedalone)\
**Post date:** [January 5, 2023, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/any-adepts-at-ancestry-com-here/977248/24 "2023-01-05T17:40:39Z")

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Now it switches when I click that icon. For hours last night I kept clicking it and nothing changed. Thanks.

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