Custom Event: Death of Spouse

margarita · Post by **margarita** » 03 Jun 2007 12:03

I am trying to create a custom event'Death of Spouse'

I would like this to appear on the Event list for an individual as 'Death of Spouse' and show deceased spouse's name.

I would like the sentence to read something like 'Spouse Richard died in 1910'

I have tried to create this but with no avail - I don't seem to be able to get the relevant name in.

Can anyone help please?

Thanks in advance.

margarita

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YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 03 Jun 2007 21:13

You would need to create this as an attribute rather than an event so that you could define the spouses name as the value.

margarita · Post by **margarita** » 04 Jun 2007 08:05

Thanks, Jane.

It's easy when you know how isn't it. All sorted now.

margarita

DooDL · Post by **DooDL** » 04 Jun 2007 08:45

Being naive, surely 'Death of Spouse' must be an event?
The attribute equivalent would be 'was widowed by' in order to still allow the spouse name to be included in a sentence.

YouTube · Post by **Jane** » 04 Jun 2007 09:57

IMHO, it's not worth worrying about whether a fact is an event or attribute, if you need to provide a 'value' as in this case a spouse name, then it needs to be an attribute, if you only need a place and date then you can use an event.

SunnyLady · Post by **SunnyLady** » 04 Jun 2007 20:10

I am with Jane on this one - I started off with both events and attributes but found that events (even if they were 'events') did not work for what I wanted. So I use attributes - and I have a general one that I use to record all sorts of dated but miscellaneous information - letters, visits somewhere, meeting someone of note, an article about that person, - which are of interest but not within the standard fact set, or likely to be relevant to any other person in my FamHist. I thought about having masses of custom events/attrributes, but decided this was a simple way that fitted my way of working. Having said that I do like the idea of adding a Death of spouse (and then reflected on Death of child too - not the natural order but a reality for many)

margarita · Post by **margarita** » 04 Jun 2007 22:25

What I wanted to do works as an attribute - I just didn't think of it until Jane told me.

There may be other uses for events in this situation but I have achieved the result that I wanted which is all that matters in the end.

maragrita

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