My feeling is that it best to quote the source and add opinion separately. You are not responsible for what any of your predecessors did. If your source had slaves as "other relations", this would well be added as comments. cheers, Gard > I?was reseaching about a particular branch of my family and > discovered that in the 1840s?through 1860s they owned slaves > that were included in their census records. The slaves were > listed as ""other relations" which sounds more like their > slaves were relatives rather than property. Owning slaves is > pretty reprehensible. Do I want to list the slaves as part > of my family tree? No. However, should they be included > because that was just the way it was at that time in > history? > ? > Your thoughts? > ? > Thanks in advance, > ? > Dean >