I discovered after searching the Manchester Collection of records on www.findmypast.co.uk that both my great-grandfather and his father at separate times served short terms of imprisonment. I would welcome suggestions about how it might be best to record this as I can't find anything in the Event/Attribute list to cover this. In case anyone is wondering I am not in the least disturbed about finding that an ancestor served a prison sentence as I long ago decided that it is not for me to judge my ancestors at this distance in time. It makes it more interesting anyway. :-)). Margaret North.

<<snipped>> terms of imprisonment. I would welcome suggestions about how it might be best to record this as I can't find anything in the Event/Attribute list to cover this. <<snipped>> If it was me, I'd create a new _event_ for this. Go to Tools/Work with Fact Sets and click New... You may as well call the new fact "Imprisonment", set it as Fact Type "Event", Record Type "Individual" and let "Fact Set" default to "Custom". On the next window, the Fact Definition, you can let everything default except for the sentence, which should read something like {individual} was imprisoned {date}< in {address}>< {place}>. Address will contain the name of the prison, place = the town, city or locality where the prison is. You may also find it useful to have a custom attribute "Court case" - my sentence for that reads: {individual} was charged with {value} {date}< at {address}>< {place}>. Notice the court case is an attribute - the value of this will be what they are charged with. Imprisonment, on the other hand, is an event since I can think of no useful value for it. I'd use the note for each event or attribute to contain useful extra bits. For instance, the note of the court case attribute could finish with the verdict and sentence. The arrangement of < and > is simply to get the best spacing in any sentence that misses one of the items. It is possible that one of the downloadable fact sets contains what you need - I don't know, I always create my own as they're so easy (for me!) Adrian B

Thanks Adrian. I have printed your email to help me creating a new event but I will also have a look at the downloadable fact sets to see if there is anything there. So far the Event/Attribut list has covered everything that I have needed so it is new ground to be creating a new event. Margaret. On 27/09/2011 19:47, Adrian Bruce wrote: > <<snipped>> terms of imprisonment. I would welcome suggestions about how it > might be best to record this as I can't find anything in the Event/Attribute > list to cover this. > <<snipped>> > > If it was me, I'd create a new _event_ for this. Go to Tools/Work with Fact > Sets and click New... You may as well call the new fact "Imprisonment", set > it as Fact Type "Event", Record Type "Individual" and let "Fact Set" default > to "Custom". > > On the next window, the Fact Definition, you can let everything default > except for the sentence, which should read something like > > {individual} was imprisoned {date}< in {address}>< {place}>. > > Address will contain the name of the prison, place = the town, city or > locality where the prison is. > > You may also find it useful to have a custom attribute "Court case" - my > sentence for that reads: > > {individual} was charged with {value} {date}< at {address}>< {place}>. > > Notice the court case is an attribute - the value of this will be what they > are charged with. Imprisonment, on the other hand, is an event since I can > think of no useful value for it. I'd use the note for each event or > attribute to contain useful extra bits. For instance, the note of the court > case attribute could finish with the verdict and sentence. The arrangement > of< and> is simply to get the best spacing in any sentence that misses one > of the items. > > It is possible that one of the downloadable fact sets contains what you need > - I don't know, I always create my own as they're so easy (for me!) > > Adrian B > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >