Re: [LegacyUG] Unique Events you have made

My event for jail is simply called jail. The sentence that it generates is... [HeShe] was incarcerated at [Desc], [onDate] [inPlace].[Sources] [Notes] My moonshie event reads [HeShe] was a moonshiner [onDate] [inPlace].[Sources] [Notes] I usually on the jail event use the Between Jan 1, 1920

Re: [LegacyUG] Unique Events you have made

Thanks Allen for those thoughts, I'm still new to researching family history and haven't checked court information yet. I have seen a news clipping of one court appearance for my family members on sly grogging charges, a similar type of thing to running moonshine in Australia. So I'll keep your

Re: [LegacyUG] Unique Events you have made

07, 2007 12:59 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Unique Events you have made I have added an event Exemption from the Aboriginal Protection Act the proper name for the Act is Aboriginal Protection and the Restriction of the Sale of Opium Act 1897, I think its a very odd name for an Act, so I just

Re: [LegacyUG] Unique Events you have made

You could use Occupation for moonshiner since that's probably how he made his living. ;-) - Original Message - From: Allen Prunty To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2007 9:24 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Unique Events you have made My event

Re: [LegacyUG] Unique Events you have made - LAND and MILITARY related

for the same reason - Military - POW, Military - Battle, Military - Wounded, etc. Sharon - Original Message - From: Allen Prunty [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Saturday, October 06, 2007 6:07 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] Unique Events you have made Just

Re: [LegacyUG] Unique Events you have made

I have found that the court records (most of my family was from a VERY small town in Tennessee), especially the transcripts of the case, told me more about who my ancestors really were. I have a gggreat uncle who had 22 bastard-court trials and I am afraid I'm going to find more. Seems like

[LegacyUG] Unique Events you have made

Just to add a bit of levity here... How many of you have made unique events? Like I have one that I created called Jail where I logged the jail time that one of my ancestors spent in jail. I have another called Prison and one called Moonshine (My family was intwined with the capones)

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Allen, How do you handle the jail issue, actually mine was workhouse and then there would be moonshine that contributed to the workhouse. Then I also have the problem that the family members were scattered all over that census year. Well one son was also in the workhouse with his father. Various