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Selecting the Relationship Calculator tool will open a list filtered to all people connected, '''but not necessarily related''', to the [[Gramps_Glossary#active_person|Active Person]]. To calculate relationship to different person, close the window, make that person Active and select the tool from the menu again.
Select the individual from the filtered list to report if a relationship exists. The exact relationship will be shown in the lower panel along the the common ancesors of that's reported relationship. Only blood relationships will display (except for husband-wife relationships). Note "in-law" relationships are not displayed.
The filtered list will grouped and alphabetically sorted by surname. (Regardless of whether the View menu setting of the Person category has been set to '''Grouped'''.) The list columns cannot be re-sorted.
The degree of separation (generation distance) that will be recognized is controlled by the the ''Max generations for relationships'' value in the [[Gramps_5.1_Wiki_Manual_-_Settings#General|General]] tab under the {{man menu|Edit->Preferences...}} menu. (The default of 15 generations will report a 12th great-grandparent relationship but not their parents. The active person is counted as one of the generations.)
Essentially, any two people are directly related by blood if they have an ancestor in common. One of these individuals may actually be an ancestor of the other - such as a great grandparent. Even in the cases of aunts and uncles, you still can calculate the relationship by searching for the common ancestor. In this case, the father or mother of the aunt or uncle will be a grandparent to the nephew or niece.
