Very many thanks, Bert and Cathy.
Cathy - I tried your suggestion and as far as I can see - it worked! It change over 1400 people! and at the same time left those that could still be alive! (Yes I have the DeLuxe Edition, right up to date)
Bert - could not quite understand your suggestion, but as soon as I can find my manual (packed up somewhere due to a house move) I will check it out, in more depth.
with regards,
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From: "Bert van Kootwijk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Living/Dead option? Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:52:35 +0100 Reply-To: [email protected] Hi,
This does not work , only for people with known birth and death dates.
Label those people and go to Name List> Options> Set living/not living.
Success
Bert
----- Original Message ----- From: "Cathy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > If you have the Deluxe edition of Legacy use Tools > Advanced Set Living > This will intelligently search your file and mark as dead those obviously > dead. You can review the people who are changed from living to dead in this > operation. You can set an age at which to assume people are dead. Default > is 120 but I usually drop that to 105. I have a few of people who made it > past 100 but not many and none I know of that lived more than 105 years. > > I run this periodically as I never remember to change the default when > mostly adding people from previous generations and almost always forget to > set the flag. > > With the Standard edition you could use the Search and search for those > with Living - equal to - YES > The Search list is like the Name list and you can edit from there. > I've also just tripped over another feature in the Options of Search List > and Name List so you don't need to change them individually. You can change > the status of the whole search list or a tagged group. > With a combination of tags and searching you could get the Search List down > to people definitely dead with few exceptions. > > Hope this helps, > Cathy >
Susan,
Victoria, Australia.
English webpage: http://www.st.net.au/~susanp/index.html
American webpage: http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~susanp
Research: ALSTON-Suffolk/Bedford/America,post 1850, BOURCHIER-UK, post 1650, CHUDLEIGH-Devon, All, HOLTTUM-Kent,pre 1720,MARTEN-Sussex,pre 1660, OXENDEN-Kent, All.
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