Relatives at RootsTech

 Relatives at RootsTech 2023

Find Out Who You're Related To!

Once you are signed up for RootsTech, you can join Relatives at RootsTech.  Then, you can find out how you are related to other attendees (those attending in person or virtually).  Relatives at RootsTech works by finding your common ancestors in the FamilySearch worldwide shared tree.  

As of today when I logged onto Relatives at RootsTech, I have 37,266 relatives 😲 who have also signed up to RootsTech.  The more ancestor information shared on the FamilySearch worldwide tree, the more the program can find people you're related to.  Over the years, I have added information (names, sources, records, photos, stories) for my ancestral relatives on the FamilySearch shared tree.  If you are new to FamilySearch, you may need to add your most recent ancestors to connect to the worldwide tree.

Relatives at RootsTech 2023 will only be available to March 31, then will be turned off until the next RootsTech.  Don't miss out on the cousin connections you could make.

I can view my closest 300 (of 37,666 so far) relatives by Maternal, Paternal, Location, Ancestor, or Family Line.  By clicking on By Ancestor, a drop down list of all ancestors with matches can be found.  By clicking on the name of the ancestor, I can see the matches to that ancestor and their relationship to me.😊

Several cousins have already contacted me this year.  And there are several matches I will contact who appear to belong to my brickwall family lines.  I always go to FamilySearch and make sure the connection to the common ancestor appears legit for both me and the match🧐.  It's fun to see how I am related to cousins I see working (adding records, sources, photos, stories) on our shared common ancestral relatives.

The tab for searching By Family Line has a drop down menu listing parents and grandparents, and how many matches are related to each of those line.  My German paternal grandfather has has only 176 matches on his lines, whereas my paternal grandmother, with roots going back to Colonial America, has 25,158 matches on her lines.  Last year, I was able to open up a whole branch on my German lines with the help of Relatives at RootsTech😊.

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