Peter Buyk Posted September 2, 2018 Report Share Posted September 2, 2018 How can I add a witness for example to a birth, marriage or death Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lloyd Posted September 2, 2018 Report Share Posted September 2, 2018 I usually add that detail in the notes section for the event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Buyk Posted September 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 Chris thanks for the answer, is it possible to make in the notes section a Link to that person with his personsid Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XerxX Posted September 9, 2018 Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 Yes: Copy the complete URL from the addressbar of the person in question. The "http://" or "https://" must be included. Paste it into the Note and Save. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter Buyk Posted September 9, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 Thank you that works Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katryne Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 Hello ! Would the feature "association" be a better way to connect a witness to a family ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Lloyd Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 I don't think it matters how you do it - as long as it makes sense to you and you are consistent in the way you record witnesses. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katryne Posted June 5, 2019 Report Share Posted June 5, 2019 I was just wondering, it's the 1st "witness" I have to enter. I chose the "association" feature in the end, with the reverse option, so the wedding will be shown on the witness personnal page and the witness will be displayed on the family page too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Arnaud Posted July 11, 2019 Report Share Posted July 11, 2019 I faced myself with this same question. I started adding the witnesses of christening events in the notes, using just plain text. The problem; this data is not (easily) searchable. The names in the notes field don't link to actual individuals in your database. Creating a hyper-link in the notes to the person page is possible, but it is a one-way linkage. On the witnesses own person page you cannot trackback all the events he witnessed. Maybe using an association is indeed an option, but I would like the association to really link to the christening event, not to the overall person (where you can name the association). It would be nice when there was on option to add witnesses to your database, and associate them as witness to an event. I'm still not sure which approach i will take on this in my database. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newfloridian Posted July 11, 2019 Report Share Posted July 11, 2019 I have never found this an issue. I do all my data collection in Legacy 7.5 (never bothered to upgrade!!) This has a specific space in the area for witnesses where you add marriage details. I then upload this by GEDCOM to my online site. Witnesses (where present) are carried across into the line below the marriage date and place on the person's data sheet. Look at the family block immediately above the Event map in this example: Frank Tansley - details I've never had to try to add details direct to TNG Alan Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fritz Loseries Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 Hi Alan, you will see the witnesses in the marriage event, but in the sheet of the witnesses there is no link set to whom they are witnesses. This would be sometimes (in may case searching for possible relations) very useful. Do you enter in Legacy the name of a witness or can you create the witness as a new person and link the person to the witness role. This seems to be the idea behind Association and it is very very helpful. Regards, Fritz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fluffy82 Posted January 20, 2021 Report Share Posted January 20, 2021 What I do (but this won't work for everyone) is not adding the witnesses to the baptism event, but to the media file that is attached to it. I always write a transcription of the text on the media in the description. There I put names in the <a></a> format. This shows hyperlinked names next to the image with every baptism. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omarquet Posted January 15, 2023 Report Share Posted January 15, 2023 On 7/11/2019 at 12:07 PM, Arnaud said: I faced myself with this same question. I started adding the witnesses of christening events in the notes, using just plain text. The problem; this data is not (easily) searchable. The names in the notes field don't link to actual individuals in your database. Creating a hyper-link in the notes to the person page is possible, but it is a one-way linkage. On the witnesses own person page you cannot trackback all the events he witnessed. Maybe using an association is indeed an option, but I would like the association to really link to the christening event, not to the overall person (where you can name the association). It would be nice when there was on option to add witnesses to your database, and associate them as witness to an event. I'm still not sure which approach i will take on this in my database. it is indeed an issue, and it is strange that this has not been adressed since. Associations should be linkable to events. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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