Missing Parents

How this works:

• Get n generations of ancestors (up to 5, depending on the number in the 'Cousins' box).
• Get all descendants of the n^th generation.
• Get g generations (the number in the Ancestors box) of the decendants' ancestors.
• Find which of these people have a parent (or two) missing.
• As a bonus, find which of these people may be missing a spouse (aged over 15 [if we have their dates]; no spouse; 'No spouse' not set) or children (with spouse; no children; 'No more children' not set).

Choosing the highest options, you may be looking at up to 15 generations of people, starting from your fourth cousins. Depending on how well connected you are to the big tree, this can take a long time and produce a more results than you need, so you may want to start with lower numbers.

After all names of people with missing parents have loaded, you can click the to the left of each person's name to see a table of their family members. There's also a ↓ to download the list as an Excel file.

Each column of the table is sortable. The location columns are sortable in two ways: by smallest place (village/town) first or by largest place (usually country) first.

The Wide Table button stops the text from wrapping and will usually force a horizontal scrollbar. The table becomes draggable to make it easier to use. The 'wide' view also has two extra columns to show when the profile was created and when it was last edited.

The brick wall images in the table and the key are toggleable. Click the pink brick wall, for example, to show only those with a known father and a missing mother.