On 3/18/2015 9:18 PM, Richard Damon via wrote: > On 3/18/15 8:37 PM, Charlie Hoffpauir via wrote: >> On 3/18/2015 6:29 PM, Pat McGrath via wrote: >>> When you create a report for the direct line ancestors of a given person, >>> and there is a family that has multiple children that are in the direct >>> line, WHICH CHILD does RM choose to follow? >> How can you be descended from more than one child in a family? Only if >> siblings married, I guess. >> > Or cousins (of some degree). > No, cousins are not a part of direct line ancestors, which is what the OP started her post with. Anyone's direct line ancestors are only parents, grand-parents, g-grandparents, etc. -- Charlie Hoffpauir http://my.rootsmagic.com/CRHoffpauir/ http://sites.rootsmagic.com/CharlieHoffpauir/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/ http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Hoffpauir

On 3/19/15 8:49 AM, Charlie Hoffpauir via wrote: > On 3/18/2015 9:18 PM, Richard Damon via wrote: >> On 3/18/15 8:37 PM, Charlie Hoffpauir via wrote: >>> On 3/18/2015 6:29 PM, Pat McGrath via wrote: >>>> When you create a report for the direct line ancestors of a given person, >>>> and there is a family that has multiple children that are in the direct >>>> line, WHICH CHILD does RM choose to follow? >>> How can you be descended from more than one child in a family? Only if >>> siblings married, I guess. >>> >> Or cousins (of some degree). >> > No, cousins are not a part of direct line ancestors, which is what the > OP started her post with. Anyone's direct line ancestors are only > parents, grand-parents, g-grandparents, etc. > But if the cousins were your parents, then they would be your direct line ancestors. Go back to the common ancestor(s) which make them cousins, and then down one generation. Now you have multiple children in a family that are your ancestors, without needing siblings to marry. -- Richard Damon