Howard,
If the Living status can't be changed on the Individual Information
screen, nothing else in Legacy is able to change it so it's a matter of
removing data on death related fields until the change becomes available
- which is what you eventually did.
It's the same if on the Individual Information screen the checkbox for
'This individual has no known marriage and no known children' is greyed
out. Any inadvertently added marriages to unknown need to be removed
before the choice is active again.
Cathy
Howard Cady <mailto:howardc...@q.com>
Wednesday, 8 November 2017 3:17 AM
Cathy,
If a person is set to Living = No because there is a “Cause of Death”
in Medical Notes then it is no longer an option to be changed on the
Individual Information screen. That is why I had to find an alternate
route to set living to YES.
Howard
*From:* Cathy Pinner
*Sent:* Monday, November 6, 2017 8:32 PM
*To:* Legacy User Group
*Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Potential GEDCOM Error
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 Advance d set living
to set obviously deceased people to dead.
Cathy
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Cathy Pinner <mailto:genea...@gmail.com>
Tuesday, 7 November 2017 11:32 AM
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 Advance d set living
to set obviously deceased people to dead.
Cathy
Howard Cady wrote:
Howard Cady <mailto:howardc...@q.com>
Tuesday, 7 November 2017 10:13 AM
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
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Cathy Pinner <mailto:genea...@gmail.com>
Monday, 6 November 2017 12:55 PM
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
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