If a profile shows parents & children, why is there no Ancestors or Descendants button?

+2 votes
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Here are the 2 examples I've seen today.

Harris-38466

Harris-25923
WikiTree profile: Henry Harris
in WikiTree Tech by Karen Wall G2G6 (7.5k points)

2 Answers

+6 votes
 
Best answer
Because they have no parents and thus no ancestors and the children have no children for them to have descendants. .
by Jim Tareco G2G6 Mach 3 (38.3k points)
selected by Kevin Conroy
Or to put that another way, the buttons only appear when there are two generations to show before (ie if there are grandparents) or after (ie if there are grandchildren).
+1 vote
I find this pretty confusing... and hereby lobby not to have the interface change in this manner, based on whether there are further generations. These kinds of tweaks to an interface based on subtle differences are not part of web design 101...

Fankly, I would lobby to put the original Family Tree tab back where it was and restore it as a full fledged page of its own... the current situation with anchors is cumbersome, including when trying to share links to the tree -- sometimes the URL doesn't update to show the #Ancestors hash arg, for instance).
by Daphne Maddox G2G6 Mach 3 (32.4k points)

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