Michele, We seem to be at cross-purposes here. No, I was not suggesting that one updates before transferring to Legacy (your last post). Options>Customise>Data Entry does what it says on the tin! it applies when one is making a *Data Entry* ie. adding or amending data. Thus if you enter someone with a birthdate more than (say) 120 years ago is will automatically set them to dead. If there is no birthdate and no death it will set them according to your Living Indicator Defaults (Options>Customise>Data Defaults) and will not make any calculation was to whether the individual should be living or otherwise. If using Tools>Advanced Living killed off 500 people, then within your files you had 500 people who were older than the setting which you made when using the tool. Thus you had 500 people set to living but who are, in fact, dead.
Ron Ferguson _____________________________________________________________________ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger 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 20:12:57 -0400 > > I am going to OPTIONS, CUSTOMIZE, DATA ENTRY, then there is a section titled > "Presumed Dead" I have that set up but when I did it your way it killed off > over 500 more people! > > michele > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "ronald ferguson" > To: > Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 4:41 PM > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living > > > > Michele, > > How are you doing this? If you go to Tools>Advanced Set Living, set the age > to whatever age you require for age at death and run, it will set them all > above that age as dead. No tags no nothing. > > > > Ron Ferguson > > _____________________________________________________________________ > > New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger 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 15:29:44 -0400 >> >> I don't think so Ron. I tagged over 1000 people in my file that fit the >> following criteria... >> >> no death date >> set as living >> >> Over 3/4 of those tagged are people that would have died before 1900 and >> couldn't possibly be alive. They had parents with birth dates of 1750 or >> children with birthdates of 1790 (you get the idea). I am manually going >> in >> and marking them as dead. >> >> I realize it is partly my problem for not estimating birth and death dates >> or manually marking them as dead when I enter them. >> >> michele >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: "ronald ferguson" >> To: >> Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:48 AM >> Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living >> >> >> >> 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/ > _________________________________________________________________ > Learn how to add other email accounts to Hotmail in 3 easy steps. > http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ _________________________________________________________________ Use Hotmail to send and receive mail from your different email accounts. 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
