How do I best define table relationships to track family relationships?

Problem: I am stuck because I don't know how to relate to individual's IDs to each other.

Background: I am compiling a dataset of high officers of the British crown between 1603 and 1763. It turns out that many of these individuals are related to each other. Hence I determined that it will be useful to track personal relationships.

I have assigned each individual an ID. Now I would like to link them to each. So far, I have created a variable that expresses the nature of the family relation (1 father, 2 mother, three sister, four brother). I have also created a variable to express non-family relationships (1 patron, 2 client, 3 teacher etc.).

You might first try a search for +family +relationship, as there are several previous threads that deal with how to structure these things.

Thanks for the pointer, Ender. However, the other users were more advanced than me and I could not understand previous posts.