I do something similar for marriages. I created a Witness (Marr) event and put the name in the description and use the notes for the relationship so my sentences read 'abc (brother of xyz) was a witness to the marriage.' Because most of my witnesses are also relatives I created a Marriage Witness (Individual) event for the individuals - here the description contains the two parties to the marriage and the sentence reads 'abc was a witness to the marriage of xyz and def on date.' Both event definitions contain the date. I've yet to find a replaceable field that would pull in the names of other people in the file. On wills I've not really had the need but if I discover some more I might think about creating 'Executor' and 'Executrix' events. Graham
-----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jenny M Benson Sent: 23 June 2006 11:10 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] How do you record someone acting as a witness? Changes in County boundaries? Carol wrote >I know this is a sore spot for many users, but how do you record the >fact that someone acted as a witness on a deed or a will? I haven't come to entering precisely that type of witness yet, but I have recorded a few instances of people being witnesses at weddings. In those cases, I use an Event named Witness (can't remember now if that is a standard Legacy one or if I added it) and in Description I write something like "Marriage of John Smith RIN to Jane Brown RIN." In the case of someone witnessing, say, a Will, I would use the Event Name Witness and Event Description would be "Will of John Smith [RIN]". (In that case I've put [RIN] because John Smith may or may not be an individual in my Family File.) Date and Place would, of course, be the date and location when/where the witnessing took place. -- Jenny M Benson Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ For online technical support, please visit http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
