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Thank you Mike. That helps!

Excellent. Thank you.

Thanks again for the reply. There is something here that I do not understand. You say: You cite that source against each of the individuals concerned to "prove" that the relationship exists. Similarly Mike says in an earlier post above: I think most FH users set the Citation against the Father's <wh...

Yes it does make sense. Thank you! You have described the situation exactly, and I appreciate your explanation. I appreciate too the advice in your first sentence - to find a way that works for me. The place I am coming from is one that I picked up from a forum (not sure if it was this one) where a ...

Mike, Thank you for this suggestion. I can see that the Witness feature might be a way to record the evidence of the relationship, but I do not want to go down that route in this case as both the fathers, although named on the marriage certificate, were not witnesses at the wedding as they were dece...

Thank you Adrian and Mike for your replies. They were helpful and encouraging. Yes Notes is the way I will go. I had wondered wondered if it would be possible to use a citation to link a source record to a relationship, but it seems not. Or whether there might be an additional Fact type of Relations...

On a marriage certificate the fathers of the couple are named. How does one record this? i.e to what facts do I add the citation? It seems to me there are two facts here for each father 1) his name 2) his relationship (father) to one of the persons being married. So I want my citation to link my sou...