Answers.Body: <p>Make email address field not-required on the profile you include on your event online registration form.</p>
  
  <p>If the registering participant does not provide an email address, you could get duplicates in your CiviCRM contacts. See this warning:</p>
  
  <blockquote>
    <p>Duplicate Matching Impossible The selected profiles do not contain the
    fields necessary to match registrations with existing contacts. This
    means all anonymous registrations will result in a new contact.</p>
  </blockquote>
  
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Answers.Text: Yes this works. I didn't know you could make email address optional.
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Answers.Body: <p>Civi requires either a last name OR an email (plus a first name), so make sure the profile on your event registration form doesn't make email required.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Thank you, I edited the profile and set the email to not required. I didn't know you could do this.
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Body: <p>Sorry for such a brain dead question but we have people that want to register for our events that have no email address. Hard to imagine in this day and age but it happens. A lot of our contacts are old and not up with all the newfangled internet stuff. I have set up an event registration form that works very well for most, but requires email address. I have googled "civicrm register event email address" and not found anything specific on this issue.</p>
  
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Title: How to register for event without an email address?
ThreadText: # How to register for event without an email address?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2015-04-06)
  
  Sorry for such a brain dead question but we have people that want to register for our events that have no email address. Hard to imagine in this day and age but it happens. A lot of our contacts are old and not up with all the newfangled internet stuff. I have set up an event registration form that works very well for most, but requires email address. I have googled "civicrm register event email address" and not found anything specific on this issue.
  
  **Tags:** civievent
  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2015-04-06. Score: 6
  
  Make email address field not-required on the profile you include on your event online registration form.
  
  If the registering participant does not provide an email address, you could get duplicates in your CiviCRM contacts. See this warning:
  
  > Duplicate Matching Impossible The selected profiles do not contain the
  > fields necessary to match registrations with existing contacts. This
  > means all anonymous registrations will result in a new contact.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Yes this works. I didn't know you could make email address optional.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2015-04-06. Score: 1
  
  Civi requires either a last name OR an email (plus a first name), so make sure the profile on your event registration form doesn't make email required.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Thank you, I edited the profile and set the email to not required. I didn't know you could do this.  
  
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