Howard,
I trust your brother is getting excellent care in the Hospice.
Thanks for pointing out what you were using. It's not often I learn of a
feature in Legacy I've not been aware of. I use Advanced Set Living
quite often but didn't know you could change this setting for a group. I
obviously don't use the Name List/Search List often enough and when I
do, I know what I'm looking for and don't see the other options.
I certainly wouldn't think of using it for an individual or two. Easier
to do it on their Individual Information screen where you can find the
problem if you can't change the setting.
In fact, I can't think of a use for it the way I use Legacy which is no
doubt why I don't know about it. It would perhaps be helpful when
importing a gedcom where the living setting was a mess. Set everyone
without death information to living and then use Advanced set living to
set obviously deceased people to dead.
Cathy
Howard Cady wrote:
Cathy,
Somewhere in the help listings for Legacy I found a method for
resetting the Living Yes/No for a tagged set of individuals. I used
tag 8 for the brother as the only tagged individual in my file. Then
used the sequence of selections View/ Name List/ Options/ Set Living/
All Individuals Tagged on 8/ Set Living = Yes to try to return the
brother to life. I often got a message that 1 Individual had been
reset, but found on his Individual Information screen that he was
still dead.
This brother is in Hospice Care and I had entries under Sources -
Death Cause and Medical Notes listing his anticipated “Cause of Death”
without realizing that a Sourced Note could actually be fatal without
entering anything for Death/Burial information. It took me several
attempts at finding and removing information, labels, or sources to
bring him back to life.
I don’t think I had a problem that will occur often. Your initial
suggestion was the important clue for fixing my problem and I don’t
think further work is needed.
Howard
*From:* Cathy Pinner
*Sent:* Sunday, November 5, 2017 9:55 PM
*To:* Legacy User Group
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Potential GEDCOM Error
Howard,
I'm glad it's sorted but you shouldn't have to remove Medical Notes
unless you'd put them in Cause of Death or sourced them as Cause of
Death. I just retested this and adding Cause of Death or sources for
it doesn't change the Living status either.
I don't know what you mean by "View-Set Living".
If you mean Tools - Advanced Set Living - well it wouldn't help as it
is badly named - it means set the living flag to deceased if the
person couldn't still be alive based on surrounding individuals. The
unofficial title is Intellimurder ;)
If you mean setting the flag on the Individual Information screen - it
would reset to deceased if one of the fields associated with death was
filled.
Cathy
Howard Cady wrote:
Cathy,
You were correct as to the cause of my problem (individual marked as
deceased). Fi xing the problem was harder. The “View-Set Living” reset
kept returning “fixed” but the Individual Information screen kept
returning “Deceased” for several attempts. Deleting Medical Notes and
Medical Note Sources was my final fix that was required to get him
alive. Thanks for steering me to the solution.
Howard Cady
*From:* Cathy Pinner
*Sent:* Saturday, November 4, 2017 6:55 PM
*To:* Legacy User Group
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Potential GEDCOM Error
Howard,
You don't need LTools for this and I'd be very wary of using LTools
beyond Legacy 7.
For this particular case, you just need to look at his Individual
Information screen and see.
For others you may want to check, you can use Legacy Detailed Search.
Individual - Birth Date - after - <your choice of date>
AND
Individual - Living - equal to - NO
Cathy
Howard Cady wrote:
Cathy, Thanks for the information that removing everything from
death/burial/sources wouldn’t restore “deceased” to “living”. I will
search for “deceased” and dig out Ltools and look when I have time –
but not before this reply. It is also possible that I might have
checked his deceased box at one time and then reversed that check.
Howard
*From:* Cathy Pinner
*Sent:* Friday, Nov ember 3, 2017 6:26 PM
*To:* Legacy User Group
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Potential GEDCOM Error
Have you checked that he's not been accidentally marked as deceased in
your file? It's easy to do. Adding anything in death or burial field
or adding a source to them will switch the Living indicator. Removing
it doesn't switch the indicator back.
Cathy
Howard Cady wrote:
I used Legacy 9 version 198 to prepare an GEDCOM (import to Ancestry
version) of my wife's bloodline (only her relatives) with privacy
(only names for living people). Everything was as expected except for
her living brother where the exported file treated him as deceased. My
wife and all living descendants were properly exported as names only.
A deceased older sister was properly exported as deceased. Have others
noticed this potential error?
Howard Cady
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