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Thanks, and wow, I'll have to get my head round all of that. I chose 'appointment' as some positions (take for example 'Mayor') are temporary and not occupations. Overseer, Churchwarden, etc. are other good examples of temporary appointments. Regarding the place of settlement, that is a good one as ...

Many thanks. I think I'm beginning to get the hang of this at last.

Thanks, Jane, you gave me an idea. I substituted 'value' for 'address' and now have 'He was appointed Sergeant at Law for Cheshire on 29 May 1436'. There was no-where to put the Sergeant at Law bit except in the address space. I'll have a go at a fact set for poor law stuff but it may take some time...

I'm sorry, forget it. I've been trying for over an hour to create a fact for appointments and cannot get the words to come right. What I want to see is: Thomas Duncalf was made Serjeant at Law of Chester in 1437 All I can get it to say is that he was 'appointed'. I've read and re-read the help but c...

Hello, my first time on this forum but am on the rootsweb list. Been using FH for nearly 2 years, now on v.4. I want a fact to show that someone was appointed, for example, Sergeant at Law for Cheshire in 1436, appointed to a Commission of Justices in 1437 etc. This would have to be an event, not an...