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• Roles
  ...ase (by adding the name), or a combination of both. In the case of a birth fact, the child would be the principal, family members (the mother's mother or a ...the role, and then assign people to that role when adding witnesses to the fact.
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• Working With Facts
  ...tive, weave the story of the person's life. The Edit Person window and the fact pane provide the tools to embellish this story. ==The Edit Person window==
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• Fact Types
  In RootsMagic, a fact type is an item that defines an event. Fact types can have one or two principals and any number of associated witnesses ...You can use the fact types as is, or you can edit fact types to tailor the fact types to your preference or your style.
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• Adding Media Items
  ...yet, but it becomes available to use (and reuse) when adding media in the Edit Person form. *'''Media type''' - the type of media (Image, File, Sound, or Video).
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• Adding Facts
  ...e the fact list of the Edit Person form. RootsMagic will display the fact type list. [[File:RM8_EditPerson-AddFact.jpg|Add Fact]]
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• Sharing Facts
  ...room, etc. For a census, there are no witnesses, just people who share the fact because they were enumerated at the same time. Similarly for an obituary, t The "Share" feature in RootsMagic lets you share a person’s fact or event with other people in your database, by assigning roles to the othe
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• Editing a Fact
  ==Editing a Fact== ...ata fields, just click in the desired field. There are different types of edit fields:
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• Editing Media Items
  To edit a media item, do one of the following: *Select the Media page, and select the media you want to edit from the thumbnail view or the media list
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• TMG Import
  ...ents of one or more children, RootsMagic will import it into a family fact type. ...in the TMG Marriage and Divorce tag type groups will be imported as family fact types irrespective of whether they have one or two principals in TMG.
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• Adding a Task
  ...yet, but it becomes available to use (and reuse) when adding a task in the Edit Person form. *'''Last edit date''' - the date the task was most recently worked on
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• Editing a Person
  ==How To Edit a Person== #or right click on a person's name and select Edit person
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• Advanced Person Search
  #Enter the field you want to search in. This can be a fact (like birth, death, etc), or a name, or many other options ...subfield you want to search in. This will be different depending on what type of field you selected in step 1. For example, if your field was "Death", t
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• Adding People
  #*Sex – Select the person’s sex from the drop list, or type M for male, F for female, or U for unknown if you are not sure of the perso ...g - set by default to living. If a birth date is over 105 years or a death fact is added the living flag will automatically be unchecked when saved.
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• Working With Places
  RootsMagic has two place fields for each fact, Place and Place Details. The Place field is where you would enter the city ...t of places if you know there is an exact match, rather than continuing to type the name. You can also click on the Place list icon at the end of the Place
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• Place List
  ...in that place. While a "place" is usually a city, county, state, country type of location, place details are more specific, like a street address, hospit ...n the list, RootsMagic will display information about that place in a live edit panel on the right side of the screen.
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• Using Sentence Templates
  ...ing_With_Facts|Working With Facts]]</u> > <u>[[RootsMagic_8:Fact_Sentences|Fact Sentences]]</u> > ...tell RootsMagic how to write a sentence when a particular role for a fact type is encountered in narrative reports or websites. (The template language is
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• Creating a source template
  ...s are created in two steps – first, define source fields applicable to the type of source, and, second, arrange these fields (with other text, punctuation, [[File:RM8_Sources-Template-Edit.jpg|Template Edit]]
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• Sentence Template Language
  ...ing_With_Facts|Working With Facts]]</u> > <u>[[RootsMagic_8:Fact_Sentences|Fact Sentences]]</u> > '''Note:''' This help item is common to both Fact Sentence templates and Source templates. Some items are applicable to only
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• Update History
  * Fixed: Mac note editor now uses Cmd+Key for edit commands (Cut, Copy, Paste, etc.) * Fixed: Customize sentence on relative events in Edit Person was showing the wrong person
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• Report Settings
  In addition to the specific settings for each type of report, some settings are available which apply to some or all of the re RootsMagic will slide in the appropriate settings edit panel. Not all reports will include every setting. For example, the index
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