If you have not synced Family Tree Maker since making significant changes, do that first.

If you have already used the “Publish” Option to do something else, you will need to close Family Tree maker and open it up again.  Then go to Publish along the top menu bar then along the left-side menu select “Relationship Reports” then Kinship reports (Double click) in the middle sample charts.  If things do not seem to be working out and you have been running FTM for some time in this session, close it then open  it again.  A fresh start seems to help.

There used to be a way to order the list by rlatonship so all the ones not related would be at  the ned but that does not seem to be the case now. The old method was: Now in the right-hand menu select individuals to include, check “All individuals” then in the menu below select sort individuals by kinship.  This will generate a list ordered by kinship alphabetically so “unrelated” will down toward the bottom of the list.

It occasionally flags people as unrelated when they actually are so before you delete them make certain they are not related.  In Ancestry, if they are related the relationship shows below the name at the top of their page.  I have found some false positives.  For example, a person who was the brother-in-law of 4^th cousin 2x removed got flagged.

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