Michele, That is not so. It will look at ancestors and descendants and decide if they would have been over whatever date you have set for the life span.
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ New Tutorial: Embed a Bogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _____________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------- > From: cranberryf...@charter.net > To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living > Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:48:37 -0400 > > I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over > 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! > > michele > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gene Young" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:27 AM > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living > > >> Michele Lewis wrote: >>> I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death >>> date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and >>> children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload >>> your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your file is >>> blocked out that shouldn't be. I am having to go through and find all >>> these (I did it with a simple search, any body with no date of death >>> that is marked living). >>> >>> michele >>> >> >> From the help file; >> >> Advanced Set Living >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> There are several Legacy reports, plus web pages, where the privacy of >> anyone whose Living status is set to Yes is protected by suppressing all >> personal details. When creating these reports, no information is >> included for ancestors born centuries ago if they are inadvertently left >> set as Living. >> >> >> >> Normally an individual's Living status is set at the time they are >> manually entered. The process is automatic if their death or burial >> information is entered or their birth or christening date is more than >> 120 years ago. If no birth, christening, death, or burial information >> is entered, their status remains at the default Yes, if not changed to No. >> >> >> >> It is an easy task to set the Living status of a few individuals >> manually, but the task can become formidable when adding hundreds or >> thousands of new people to your family file with a GEDCOM import. This >> is where the Advanced Set Living feature comes in handy. This option >> does an intelligent search through your entire family file looking for >> people that are older than the cutoff age, which is usually 120 years >> old. When someone of this age is found, it is assumed that all of their >> ancestors are older than that and that they are all dead. Legacy then >> sets their Living flag to NO as far back as the line goes from there, >> regardless of whether or not they have birth or christening dates. >> >> To use the Advanced Set Living feature: >> >> 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. >> >> 2. Set the cutoff age at the desired level by either typing in the >> number or by using the up and down arrows of the spin control. >> >> 3. Click the Start button. Legacy goes through your entire family file >> setting the Living flag to NO when it is determined that they are older >> than the you specified. When finished, Legacy asks if you would like to >> see a list of all the people who had their Living flag set to NO. To >> view the list, click Yes. >> >> >> -- >> Gene Y. >> n2kvs >> Researching Young, Zies, Harer & Cox with >> Legacy Family Tree >> http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ >> _________________________________________________________________ Learn how to add other email accounts to Hotmail in 3 easy steps. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
