* Outdoor Relief Fact

[janefrances]

Hi, I'm struggling to find a fact for the above, any ideas? I'm not too great at using custom facts so I'm a bit stuck. Many thanks, Jane

[tatewise]

Your earlier posting Newspapers fact (14847) gives some useful tips.

Think about whether you just need a Source record for the Outdoor Relief details and Standard Facts gleaned from it.

Otherwise, perhaps a generic Poor Law Relief fact (similar to the Newspaper fact) may also be needed.

If Narrative Reports are important to you, see how_to:narrative_report_fact_sentence_templates|> Narrative Report Fact Sentence Templates.

[LornaCraig]

I have a case where someone's occupation was recorded in a census as 'outdoor relief'. As the census is the only evidence I have, I simply allowed AS to create this as an occupation when entering the census details. I then amended the sentence in FH to read 'He was recorded as being in receipt of Outdoor Relief on...'

[tatewise]

A variant on what has been said so far, is to create a custom Income Attribute where the Attribute value is the income amount and perhaps its type, e.g. £1-2-6 Outdoor Relief or £125 pa salary.

Then the sentence would say something like:
His income was £1-2-6 Outdoor Relief on 20 Jan 1823 in London.
or
His income was £125 pa salary in 1901 in Manchester.

[janefrances]

Many thanks to all for help with this. I've created a Custom Fact Definition Type thus:
Name: Outdoor Relief. Fact Set: Custom. Fact Type: Event
[individual] receiving [label] [date] place] ][age]

Sentence reads.
He receiving Outdoor Relief in 1837 aged 63. I need to add ' was' so I just typed it in, not sure if this is the way it should be done but it seemed to work ok!

He was receiving Outdoor Relief in 1837 aged 63

[tatewise]

Yes, that seems OK Jane.

So I presume your Fact Definition for Outdoor Relief now has the Sentence Template:
{individual} was receiving {label} {date} {place} (age}

BTW: Also its Normal Time Frame: should be Life because that relief can only be received while alive.

[janefrances]

Thanks Mike, yes, the Normal Time Frame is set to Life.