
Rooted: Family Archive
Your family's living archive
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What's New in Rooted
1.5.0
August 14, 2026
Your brother is your brother. If you added a sibling to the tree before anyone had entered their parents, Rooted couldn't work out how you were related — and instead of admitting that, the tree described them as having married into the family. It now reads those ties properly: brother and sister, and everything that follows from them — uncle, great-aunt, first cousin once removed — even when the parents above them are still blank. The DNA percentages now follow the same rule: a parent nobody has entered yet no longer halves a family. Your uncle shares 25% with you even while his mother's name is still missing from the tree — Rooted only calls a relationship "half" when the records actually prove it. And where Rooted genuinely doesn't know how someone connects to you, it now says nothing at all, rather than guessing.
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