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Way to show parents half-siblings and their children?

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If both parents of mine have multiple half siblings from their parents prior/later marriges, is there any way to show these siblings and their children when I'm in POV of "me" in the tree? I guess not, I've tried switching around setting but nothing worked. By going to different POV's I can always only get all half siblings from one side to be visible, never all half siblings of both parents.
asked Apr 20 by adn27 (150 points)
Standard tree views don’t show half-siblings from both your parents' sides at once when you’re set as the home person. It’s a quirk of how trees split into two branches. I’d suggest exporting your tree to GEDCOM and loading it into Topola Genealogy Viewer (https://pewu.github.io/topola-viewer) – it gives a lovely "all relatives" layout that shows both sides at once. Or, if you're using Family Tree Maker, the Blended Families or All Relatives view does a good job showing your parents’ full sets of siblings from every marriage.

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You are right, it wouldn't let me either when I tried. But then again, maybe there's a glitch in my annoyingly gigantic tree. You should try editing the generations of ancestors, descendants, and 'Other' in the Options, too.
answered 4 days ago by rocketmoore8 (7,690 points)
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