There are a number of filters (ancestral, descendant, relationship) that would be much more useful for purposes of working with DNA matches, and perhaps other purposes as well (tracing things like prevalance of heritable conditions), if those filters could optionally limit their scope to biological …

Wouldn’t some of the point with a DNA match be to also find DNA relations with people in your database that you didn’t know had a biological relation with a person? If you set a filter that limit all connections only to what you have defind as biological relations, you wouldn’t find relations with …

Yes, maybe that could be a valid use case for users whose DNA matches already exist as people in their database, although I don’t know how that would help them discover the nature of the relationships. In my case, most of my DNA matches are people I know nothing about, and I don’t want to add them …

[image] GeorgeWilmes: From the user perspective, it would be very simple: just a checkbox. But I imagine it would impact many places deep in the code. When selecting parents (or children) of a person, it would need to check for the “birth” relationship (child reference type?). I’ll look into …

Filter option for including only biological relatives

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Mattkmmr April 8, 2020, 9:01am 4

I’ll look into them. I’ve already added the same steps to my latest filter rules.

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Filter option for including only biological relatives

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