I’ve reached a point in my family history research where cluster analysis has become a major tool in my work. I have been using RM since it first began supporting shared events. Often, there are individuals who share events with my ancestors and I have no idea at the time what their deeper relationships (if any) are with my ancestors.
In those cases, rather than adding them as persons to my database I have used the “type the name of the person” option to record them. Now, with years of associations recorded in the shared event and/or typed person table, RM announced it’s new association capability.
I am glad to see this development in RM, but I wish that RM could also tap into the old tools I’ve used for so many years rather than having me start over with associations.