* Individual Military History

[hf]

I have the full military papers for a relative who gained the MM in 1918.
I am trying to decide the best way to record his military records (including postings, wounds, hospitalisation etc etc).
I wonder how others of you might have done this?

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[Jane]

There are a couple of Military History fact sets in the downloads/fact sets area which have most of the common items.

I have a single source for each persons records, and then extract the information into standard tags where I can and use custom ones as required, using the source which has all the scanned documents attached.

[nsw]

Similar to Jane: I transcribe all of the various details of my military ancestors into one source e.g. 'Military Records of Jo Bloggs' and then as Jane suggests I have a number of custom 'facts' and standard ones, e.g. occupation, place of birth, might be mentioned at attestation.

[jmurphy]

If you use one source for the entire collection of records as suggested above, you can use 'where within source' to note which bit of information came from which document.

Jan

[hf]

I have downloaded the suggested fact sheet but don't seem to be able to open it. It shows in the 'Custom' section but doesn't open with a window to allow entries.
Any thoughts please? It is likely that I am doing summat wrong but what I do not know.

[jmurphy]

Did they not install properly, I wonder?

Try this:

1) open Family Historian
2) choose an individual
3) right-click and choose 'Properties' to pop up the data-entry box
4) go to the events tab
5) hit the + button

You should see the facts and be able to choose them as needed. If not, please tell us what happens instead.

Jan

[RosalindE]

Interesting thread and can I add
any medal catalogues into my FH software's diagram, but copy and pasting it over??
Thanks