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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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• 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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• 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. ...when person is selected, the pane has one layout, and when the occupation fact is selected, another layout is presented.
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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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• Editing a Fact
  ==Editing a Fact== *'''Text fields''' - This is a simple text field for data like names. Just type what you want into the field.
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• Adding Media Items
  ...on the Media page, it isn't "linked" to any particular person, family, or fact yet, but it becomes available to use (and reuse) when adding media in the E *'''Media type''' - the type of media (Image, File, Sound, or Video).
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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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• 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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• Fact Sentences
  ...he various elements (the roles you've defined and the fields from the fact type) into the readable sentences that will appear in your narrative reports and ...d place. The sentence for the Principal role is the main sentence for each fact, while the role sentence is displayed for a person who is assigned a shared
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• Editing a Person
  #Fact List - The left half of the form contains a list of facts for the person, i ...it panel where you can make changes to whatever item is highlighted in the Fact List on the left
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• Adding a Task
  ...on the Tasks page, it isn't "linked" to any particular person, family, or fact yet, but it becomes available to use (and reuse) when adding a task in the *'''Task type''' - lets you specify whether the task is a research task, a to-do item, or
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• Editing Media Items
  *Highlight a fact on the Edit Person form, then click the Media button on the right side edit *'''Media type''' - the type of media (Image, File, Sound, or Video).
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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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• Narrative Reports
  ...tegories, there are other options to let you choose the content and/or the type of format for the report. ##Report type
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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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• Customizing Sentences
  ...ing_With_Facts|Working With Facts]]</u> > <u>[[RootsMagic_8:Fact_Sentences|Fact Sentences]]</u> > ...ult fact to the person, the sentence preview is shown at the bottom of the fact pane. Above the preview is a link to a command, Customize, that displays th
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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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• 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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• List Reports
  ##List Type – Choose whether to print a full descendancy or a direct descendancy: ##Numbering style - Choose what type of number to print in front of each person's name. You can choose from the
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