Help:Cousins and ancestors

Familypedia now has a searchable and manipulable database. Examples follow, for some of the things that can now be done using info pages and/or Semantic MediaWiki.

Common ancestors
Template shows the common ancestors of person1 and person2. Choose the youngest (who is most likely to be the nearest). At the bottom of the page of an ancestor, there is (or soon will be) a list of descendants each including his or her generation number. Find person1 and person2. Extract those generation numbers. Suppose they are (13, 13). That makes the relationship "11th cousin".

Siblings
Many recent pages that have info pages now include this under the "Siblings" heading:. It usually displays all children of the person's parents, just as they are shown on the father's page (except that the individual concerned is shown in bold instead of as a link). If the father had children from two or more spouses, you need a few extra tricks. See Fanny Malvina Arnold (1856-1932) for a simple example of two marriages, using. See also Genealogy:Info_pages/siblings.