* Your opinion please

[DBAMorse]

I, like others I'm sure, have acquired various additional bits and pieces for individuals, such as newspaper cuttings, references following military service, useful letters etc.  I can and will scan such documents but where would be a useful place to record the written details in FH?
Thanks in anticipation

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[Jane]

There is a Military Fact Set in the downloads, which I think covers a large number of the facts from those documents.

Personally I look for a 'standard' gedcom fact and use that if it exists and use custom ones for the ones which don't

[NickWalker]

I would create a source and transcribe key bits (or all of it) and put this in the source text and perhaps put other comments in the source note. I would link this source to multimedia records each of which would be a scan of each page of the letter/cutting etc.

As Jane suggests, I would then create facts for people mentioned in the documents and link to these sources via citations. e.g. a letter might say 'my sister had a child last week' so this would allow me to create a birth event for the child with an estimated date of birth and I would link this to the source which represents the letter.

[SunnyLady]

I have created a single additional custom attribute field for things that don't quite fit - if in doubt I put the item in that. I call it 'additional attribute' and use the main field to make a sentence of what has happened (eg 'Jane wrote to her sister in law') - this prints out logically in narrative reports. Then I put in all the dates etc, notes, sources and text against that.  I decided on this route so as not to have masses of custom attributes/events as I agree with trying to use the ones provided.  So far this method has worked for me

[DBAMorse]

Thank you all for the helpful advice. I guessed others must have dealt with this issue.  Will now start to apply some of these suggestions.