When an original writing or record must be used to prove the contents of the writing or record

Cf. United States v. Aboumoussalem, 726 F.2d 906, 911-912 (2d Cir. 1984) (upholding trial court's exclusion of irrelevant evidence that defendant was duped into transporting contraband by his co-conspirators because "it tends to make the existence of a consequential fact, defendant's knowledge,...The prohibition against circumstantial character evidence applies to non-parties.

Fed. R. Evid. 804(b)(4) ("(A) A statement concerning the declarant's own birth, adoption, marriage, divorce, legitimacy, relationship by blood, adoption, or marriage, ancestry, or other similar fact of personal or family history, even though declarant had no means of acquiring personal knowledge of the matter stated; or (B) a statement...If the declarant is unavailable, Federal Rule of Evidence 804(b)(4) or a comparable State rules recognizes a hearsay exception for (A) A statement concerning the declarant's own birth, adoption, marriage, divorce, legitimacy, relationship by blood, adoption, or marriage, ancestry, or other similar fact of personal or family history, even though declarant had no means of acquiring personal knowledge of the matter stated; or (B) a statement concerning the foregoing matters, and death also, of another person, if the declarant was related to the other by blood, adoption, or marriage or was so intimately associated with the other's family as to be likely to have accurate information concerning the matter declared.

Cf. United States v. Naiden, 424 F.3d 718, 722-723 (11th Cir. 2005) (upholding trial court's exclusion of defendant's statement [that he did not believe his online acquaintance to be fourteen years old] as a state of mind....To fall within the hearsay exception provided by Federal Rule of Evidence 803(3) or a comparable State rule for person's present internal states, it must be shown that declarant had no chance to reflect, fabricate, or misrepresent his thoughts.