Ancestry Thrulines

[Glen in Tinsel Kni]

There can be real issues with half relatives too, manually editing the relationship on the dna match list has no impact on the relationship displayed in tree view and the tree view version can't be edited.

Thrulines is trying to use two conflicting sets of data (dna based and tree based), to suggest who my grandfather is and gets it wrong every time. I can only see two ways to stop it, either accept the suggestion knowing it to be wrong (and mislead others), or enter 'unknown' or a fictitious name to occupy that spot and block Thrulines trying to fill it.   

[GailB]

Having used this new look Thrulines over the weekend I have changed my mind. The old style evaluation is not available. I have a minor issue with the new display as you now see much less of the relationship line on the screen which means you have to scroll up and down to see the entire relationship.

The major issue is that you cannot evaluate each step as you could do before. It seems to be AI led and it forces you to add individuals to your tree before you can evaluate steps down your matches line. I don't want to add individuals to my tree until I have evaluated all the steps in my matches line. Unless I am mistaken there is no way now to do that.

You can still evaluate matches without adding them to your tree. Select one of the green people on the potential line, and then select "review and add to tree" from the right hand side pop up. This will not add the entry to your tree, but as you will see from the screenshot you can evaluate.

[ikas]

Thanks for that Gail. I will have another shot at evaluating and report back

[Romilly]

Just checked, and I only have the old style Thrulines, with no option to change.

Presumably it’ll turn up at some stage.

Romilly.

[ikas]

You can still evaluate matches without adding them to your tree. Select one of the green people on the potential line, and then select "review and add to tree" from the right hand side pop up. This will not add the entry to your tree, but as you will see from the screenshot you can evaluate.

As far as I can see you can only evaluate if you start at or one below the top of your matches line. Then it works as you describe. If however you start further down the matches line you are faced with a different screen (attached). This adds the "missing" people and therefore forces you to evaluate from top down. Previously, from memory, you could evaluate anyone in the line.

[GailB]

As far as I can see you can only evaluate if you start at or one below the top of your matches line. Then it works as you describe. If however you start further down the matches line you are faced with a different screen (attached). This adds the "missing" people and therefore forces you to evaluate from top down. Previously, from memory, you could evaluate anyone in the line.

If you click on the blue "Review" on Catherine Cameron rather than "Continue" to the next step, it will take you to the evaluation screen like the one I posted.

[Steve3180]

In most cases you really should evaluate from the top down. If you spend hours evaluating five or six generations from the bottom up and then the last one doesn't connect to your tree it's very frustrating. Been there, done that etc !

[ikas]

If you click on the blue "Review" on Catherine Cameron rather than "Continue" to the next step, it will take you to the evaluation screen like the one I posted.

Yes, I realise that but I didn't want to start with Catherine Cameron. I wanted to start with a person two places below. I found out this morning it must have been a bug which they have fixed. Now I can start with anyone and just hit evaluate as I did previously. The screen I had yesterday has disappeared. Happier now but still agree the new display means much more scrolling.

[ikas]

In most cases you really should evaluate from the top down. If you spend hours evaluating five or six generations from the bottom up and then the last one doesn't connect to your tree it's very frustrating. Been there, done that etc !

I prefer to scan down quickly to identify any red flags and evaluate those first. I find it is often quicker.