For the census I put the new role as "1860 Census" That way I can see it easily in the Family Group sheets. Am I going to regret this later? Deborah LaFine-Rhoads -----Original Message----- From: Alfred Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2012 2:09 PM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] What is a "witness?" Witness is only the default role for the sharee with most of the facts. There is a dropdown arrow at the end of the Role field which allows you to add a new role or choose an established one each time a person is added to share the event. For the Residence, I would probably add something like: Son, Daughter, Mother in-law, Housekeeper etc. When you add these new roles, you can add a sentence template or do it later by editing the fact in the Fact Type List. Alfred =========== David E. Cann wrote: > I have been experimenting with using the "Share" feature, trying to learn > how to properly use it and add individuals to a given fact, such as adding > children to a "Residence (family)" fact. I have not met with much success > though, or else I am simply misunderstanding the purpose and use of this > feature, because when I try to use it to add a child for example, it > defaults that child as a "witness" with no option to change it that I can > find. What is a "witness," and can anyone explain to this long-time FO & > RM > user what this feature is used for, if not what I thought? > > I've gone back to each individual entry as I have always done, but I would > like to enter for example a "Residence (family)" entry as just that, a > FAMILY including the children (and likewise "Census (family)," if there is > a > way of doing it. Maybe I am trying to do something the software isn't > designed to do though, and am misunderstanding the function of this > feature. > > > David E. Cann > decann@infionline.net > or "david.e.cann" on Skype > > =================================== 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 ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message