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Comment by Jennifer Shaw on September 27, 2009 at 3:36pm

Reports-->Lists-->Place list, select the place and create a report.

If you are using RM4:
Go to the People screen, you can click on birth place or death place (or any other fact place you chose to show) and it will arrange everyone by place.

Comment by jammie barker on September 27, 2009 at 1:06pm

have a question. is there a way on RM that searches names through place search? We have a hugh data base withbdifferent lines and it would be nice to bring up everyone that connected with a certain place.

Comment by Bill Bienia on September 22, 2009 at 12:17pm

Debby,
There is no specific fact for that purpose, but you have two choices.

If this is a fact that you will be only using a few times, you might consider using the Miscellaneous fact. The details can be entered into the Description field.

On the other hand, if you believe that you will be using this type of fact quite a bit, you may want to create your own new fact type, something along the lines of Will_Proven, which I created for my Ontario, Canada probates. (There are details in hte online help to guide you in adding a new fact type.) Here are the sentences I use for my fact:

Will_Proven
Role: Principal
The will of [person] was proven and registered with the court< [Date]>< [PlaceDetails]>< [Place]> and administration of the estate was granted by the courts to [Executor]< [Desc]>.
Role: Executor
[ThisPerson] was granted the right to administer the estate of [person] by the courts< [Date]>< [PlaceDetails]>< [Place]>.

The nice thing about creating a new fact type is that the fact type name appears in the list of facts in the Edit Person window making it easy to spot.
Bill

Comment by Debby Staley on September 22, 2009 at 11:32am

I have the newest update on RM, how do I enter Will Recorded, I cannot figure that out.

Comment by Bill Bienia on September 16, 2009 at 11:34am

Brenda, an easy way to check if the date is valid in ver. 3 is to look at the sort date. If the date is valid, there will be a sort date. If the date is not valid or it si empty, there will be no sort date. RootsMagic sorts by Sort date, not the Date field, so if the sort date is empty, the fact is sorted at the end of the facts that have sort dates. If there is more than one fact without a sort date, the order of these facts without a sort date appears to be usually by the date entered or modified (I'm not entirely sure which), or sometimes in a seemingly random order. (Bruce assures us that there is no programming logic to sort facts without a sort date field.)

In version 4, if the date is not valid, the date field background turns yellow to highlight the fact that the program can't decifer the date as entered.

Comment by Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore on September 16, 2009 at 11:01am

Hi Bill, I am a tad confused by: valid date. The entries I am viewing have dates. (see old message-it tells just how they were listed-using dates) To edit every person in the database ;) goes beyond time! ;) But that might be a good option to add. If they all have dates I would think they would sort by date. I did do one person (will do future edits of course) and they were all in date order but 1; census famy was under the marriage date while the rest were in date order except the marriage. Thanks for all the time and effort you have taken. This version is right from her CD so will check out the 3.2.6 version. Appreciate all the effort you have done in helping me! I am now wiser in these areas ;) hehe

Comment by Bill Bienia on September 16, 2009 at 10:53am

Brenda, if there is a missing file, the person could try downloading the latest ver. 3.2.6 and install that over the existing software that is installed. NOTE: Be sure to do a backup of any files before running the new install, just in case.

Comment by Bill Bienia on September 16, 2009 at 10:50am

Unfortunately, RootsMagic does not have the capability to determine the sort date when no date is entered into the main date field, or the date field soes not contain a valid date. The only way is to enter a sort date by hand. The sort date can be an educated guess based on other facts, or it can be a fictitous date to force the fact into a certain place in the list of facts. However, it is up to you.

Comment by Brenda K. Wolfgram Moore on September 16, 2009 at 8:35am

Bill it says a file ?.exe is no long there. Thanks! I am doing this for someone and I cannot get her to use RM 4 until after it has been out and 'down and dirty tested' .. thanks again-- are you saying we cannot do this as a master for the entire software? that I have to check each fact (or for whole software) cannot imagine doing each fact for each person etc.. ;) - love the 1-2-3 steps! only way to go! bk

Comment by Bill Bienia on September 16, 2009 at 8:26am

Branda, I'm not sure why you cannot get the help. I can view the built-in help by pressing F1 or going to Help, Help Topics.

Highlight any fact in the Edit Person screen, and click the Edit fact button. The Sort date appears at the lower right corner of the window.

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