Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying an ancestry graph within a social networking service are provided. A first and a second ancestry graphs are received via accounts of a first and a second user of a social networking service. Each ancestry graph including members of a subset of social contacts of the respective user and ancestry relationships between the respective user and the members of the subset of the social contacts. An ancestry relationship between a third user and the first user of the social networking service is determined, where the first ancestry graph includes the second user and the second ancestry graph includes the third user. The ancestry relationship between the third user and the first user and a suggestion for adding the third user to the first ancestry graph is provided to the first user via the account of the first user.

Abstract: Systems and methods for displaying an ancestry graph within a social networking service are provided. In some aspects, an indication of a subset of social contacts of the first user, where an ancestry of the first user includes the subset of the social contacts of the first user, and an indication of ancestry relationships between the first user and the subset of the social contacts of the first user are received, via an account associated with a first user of a social networking service. A first ancestry graph including representations of the subset of the social contacts of the first user and representations of the ancestry relationships among the subset of the social contacts are provided for display, via the account associated with the first user.