There appears to be a limit of 10,000 to the list of ancestors returned using https://www.geni.com/list?group=ancestors
Is there any way around this limit?
I tried applying a filter of Gender=Male seeking to extend the reach, but unfortunately the filter is applied after the 10,000 ancestor limit is enforced and I only get around 5,000 of the Male ancestors from the full list of 10,000.
This makes seeing beyond the 10,000 limit, in my case 31 generations, impossible in Geni.
I understand the rationale behind the limitation in terms of computational power to evaluate an ever increasing ancestry depth, and to be honest I am impressed that Geni does so well at this, particularly when compared to its sister site MyHeritage that seems to really struggle with a depth of generations, but if you have a deep tree the 10,000 limit is a very hard boundary to come up against.
I could do something programmatically via the API I guess, different to what I have already done, but it would be nice if there was some kind of workaround to get deeper than the 10,000 limit using the Geni UI.
Any thoughts, anyone?
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