Greetings. I have a question about footnotes. Is there a hard and fast rule about including explanations/discussions in footnotes instead of the main article? If I state that an ancestor in the late 1700s was accused of a crime and apparently fled the authorities and disappeared, would I explain my reasoning in the article? Or would I cite the arrest record and explain that no further records have been discovered to show the outcome of the case, and that it is assumed the accused fled? In this case, the court records were destroyed in a fire. Should this also be in a footnote? As you can see, I am confused. In the latest NGS Quarterly I see lots of footnotes which contain explanations of reasoning for conclusions stated in the main body of the article. Can someone give me some guidance on what goes where? Thanks. Peace, Part of the Tree, Greg