It will show direct line if they are LDS. Anyone beyond that, is possible when added by the person. If you submitted files to the old Ancestral File (AF) with hundreds of your living cousins in it, they will show up in YOUR record because YOU were the submitter of the Ancestral File, ditto for Pedigree Record File (PRF). You will not see any living person if they were NOT in YOUR Ancestral File or Pedigree Record File submissions. The only way they will be visible to you is your being the submitter. Longest possible living direct line is 6 generations. So I can see my 2nd, 3rd, 4th cousins, etc because I submitted them. Not YOU unless YOU are member except for the fact YOU can't see my 2nd, 3rd, 4th cousins, etc unless YOU added yours, then they become visible to you one by one or emasse if by gedcom (which will cause YOU a nightmare because of constant record merging.) David Samuelsen Megan Smith wrote: > I was helping a sister in Sunday School today, and when we pulled up "See Me > and My Ancestors", not only did it show her, her son, and her living parents > in italics, but also her living grandmother in italics! How many > generations of living people should show? We had to go out and find the > record of her deceased grandfather and attach him to the family. She had > never even registered before, so she hadn't previously added those living > records to the database. Her deceased baby daughter is not listed in her > record, but she knows that's a problem in her Church membership record > (she's a single mom). I told her she could add the baby into her record, > but can't do the sealing since she's not married to the baby's father. > > Megan Smith > Las Vegas, NV > > > > > > Please send the one word message SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-L-REQUEST@ROOTSWEB.COM > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to LDS-WARD-CONSULTANT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

If anyone was as foolish as my wife.. living people who were submitted to the PRF will show, and it would be better for everyone to at least change their birth information (date and place) to a blank. To show how good the system is .. I can not "see" in nFS my daughter-in-law nor granddaughter's record. So you can see going up.. but not going down. Alan On Sun, May 24, 2009 at 4:18 PM, W. David Samuelsen <dsam52@sampubco.com>wrote: > It will show direct line if they are LDS. Anyone beyond that, is > possible when added by the person. > > If you submitted files to the old Ancestral File (AF) with hundreds of > your living cousins in it, they will show up in YOUR record because YOU > were the submitter of the Ancestral File, ditto for Pedigree Record File > (PRF). > > You will not see any living person if they were NOT in YOUR Ancestral > File or Pedigree Record File submissions. The only way they will be > visible to you is your being the submitter. >