Rita,
Search>Find>Detailed search.
then:
1st Row: Individual, Birth Date, Equal to, leave the last field blank.
AND
2nd Row: Individual, Living, Equal to, Yes.
BTW. the advanced set living does work as I stated in my post.
Ron Ferguson
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Rita Lynn McKale wrote:
Would someone tell me how to do this search? Thanks.
Rita in South Carolina
-----Original Message-----
From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On
Behalf Of Michele Lewis
Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:30 PM
To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com
Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
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" <ronfe...@msn.com>
To: <legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com>
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
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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.
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