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Originally published 27 August 2019 <\/p>\n\n\n\n

     Wolfram Alpha has a little program that calculates family relationships.  For example, in the top left hand box I typed in grandfather’s brother’s cousin’s son and he would be my second cousin once removed.  We are one generation removed, four generations to a common ancestor and have 0.78125% blood relationship. 
     So while the calculator is good with blood relationships, it doesn’t seem able to handle the relationships when the research goes off on non-blood relation tangents.
     At FamilySearch I contacted a researcher who’d added some information to the record for my husband’s aunt and I asked how she was related.  She is a kindred heart who just keeps putting the connections together even though it takes her way off her bloodline.  I put aunt’s husband’s father’s father’s mother’s sister’s daughter’s  daughter’s daughter into the Wolfram Alpha calculator and got great grandmother which isn’t right.  Ancestry has a better calculator.  I added the names into my husband’s family spiderweb (you can’t call it a tree) but even Ancestry couldn’t keep up.
Update:  It took a day but Ancestry has determined that she is the 3rd cousin of my husband’s aunt’s husband.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Originally published 27 August 2019      Wolfram Alpha has a little program that calculates family relationships.  For example, in the top left hand box I typed in grandfather’s brother’s cousin’s son and he would be my second cousin once removed.  We are one generation removed, four generations to a common ancestor and have 0.78125% blood […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":84,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[14,16,2,12,10,13,15],"class_list":["post-83","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-cousin","tag-cousin-removed","tag-family-search","tag-familysearch","tag-genealogy","tag-relationship-calculator","tag-removed","cat-1-id"],"yoast_head":"\nComputational Database for Figuring Out Those Obscure Relationships - Your Family Quest<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Wolfram Alpha has a little program that calculates family relationships.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/yourfamilyquest.com\/dir\/computational-database-for-figuring-out-those-obscure-relationships\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Computational Database for Figuring Out Those Obscure Relationships - 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