Continuing the discussion of how to model Family and Local History relationships, as opposed to strictly Genealogical relationships within FOW, I'd like to add this item to the wish list for FOW v.20. It is my hope that these ideas can contribute to making FOW a more useful and general tool for the recording and study of all types of History, not strictly Genealogy. FOW presently has user definable facts. However, all the relationships between people are predefined. I've had many occasions in my experience studying Genealogy and Family History where I would like to create new types of relationships and groups. For instance, I've seen cases where there seemed to be a lot of intermarriage between various families but couldn't figure out why until I realized that all the men were members of the same Masonic lodge. I think it would be a great feature to be able to create an object (e.g. "Beau Gest Lodge F.&.A.O.M") along with the rules and characteristics for that class of object (Fraternal Lodge) that would allow me to attach individuals to that object as "members". Under this schema, the present FOW object classes, Person, Family, etc. would become some of the pre-defined classes supplied with FOW, just as Birth, Death, Marriage are some of the predefined fact types supplied with the program. However, the user would be able to define new object classes according to the dictates of his research. I understand that this may not be a feature that everyone would be able to use (or even understand), however, I think it would be a great boon to historical research. Donald R. Newcomb DRNewcomb (at) attglobal (dot) net