Is there a way to estimate the percentage of WikiTree members who share ancestry?

Question

i.e. the Relationship Finder not the Connection Finder.

Thanks and sincerely, Peter

Comments

There is a note somewhere about how many profiles are connected (relationship) to the One Tree. It remembers like 11,000,000±.

Answer 1

With as many profiles as we have in the main tree, it's almost certain that any member who is connected to this main tree will also have a cousin relationship with one or more other members.  Thus, I've not gone looking for them, but I've run the president search thing and I'm up to 8 presidents I'm related to, so with a hugely larger target group in the way of WikiTree members, even if you assume more people have looked for connections to presidents, I'd guess at least 5% of WikiTree members would match with you within 15 generations.  I.e.. you'll have hundreds of cousins here.