Often in research I find that individuals living in someone's house might be regarded as "children" of the family head (as indicated in some censuses) when in fact they were really cousins with the same surname. Before the truth can be sorted out, it would be good to be able to signify that a parent-child relationship is not a certainty by dotted or dashed line.

A visual indicator like that would help physically see within a genomap which relationships need further proof or research. Thanks!

K. Scott Rimell

That is a brillant suggestion, perhaps Unconfirmed Child.

The image below shows how I set out a possible link using data from different sources, here the IGI and the UK 1851 census. I am reasonably sure that John Shambrook of the census is John Shambrooke from the IGI abstract of the Parish Register. I use the vertical dimension to indicate the date and an Emotional line to point up the link. This apparent link does not appear in the text of a Report, only apparent in the graphics.

One problem that would occur if the two Johns were united as 'unconfirmed child' is that this would amalgamate the related data from the different sources. I suppose that this would have to be addressed when entering the data and making sure that each fact was correctly related to te Source. Possibly the use of events would help here