On 20 Feb 2015 at 14:01, Tom Holden via wrote: > You could tag a document file as a media item (type "file") to the person. > Whenever you open it from RM, the program that is associated with it in > Windows will open it. If you are doing essays for multiple people, it might be > smart to add a custom, private fact, say "MyEssay" to each person and tag each > document accordingly. That way you can search for these people using > RootsMagic Explorer, create a Named a Group of them, etc. I have often wished for a Biography field in genealogy programs. Maybe that is something that could be added to the bucket list of features for a future version of RM. Perhaps there could also be a brief personal description field as well, for the kind of thing that I now add to the general notes field, but it would be good to have in a separate field that one could chose to print that line out in reports - descriptions like "Salesman of Toledo, Ohio", "Farmer of 40 acres in Ashton, Devon". Then you could choose to include that, or the full biography, or both in reports. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: [email protected]

One of the software companies, possibly Rootsmagic, sells "Family Historian" or whatever, that guides you to writing a biography. Dora -----Original Message----- From: Steve Hayes via Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 9:21 PM To: Tom Holden ; [email protected] Subject: Re: [RMagic] Is there a "write as you go along" feature? On 20 Feb 2015 at 14:01, Tom Holden via wrote: > You could tag a document file as a media item (type "file") to the person. > Whenever you open it from RM, the program that is associated with it in > Windows will open it. If you are doing essays for multiple people, it > might be > smart to add a custom, private fact, say "MyEssay" to each person and tag > each > document accordingly. That way you can search for these people using > RootsMagic Explorer, create a Named a Group of them, etc. I have often wished for a Biography field in genealogy programs. Maybe that is something that could be added to the bucket list of features for a future version of RM. Perhaps there could also be a brief personal description field as well, for the kind of thing that I now add to the general notes field, but it would be good to have in a separate field that one could chose to print that line out in reports - descriptions like "Salesman of Toledo, Ohio", "Farmer of 40 acres in Ashton, Devon". Then you could choose to include that, or the full biography, or both in reports. -- Keep well, Steve Hayes Blog: http://hayesgreene.wordpress.com Web: http://www.khanya.org.za/famhist1.htm E-mail: [email protected] =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com