Mary Fowler Leek, Did you receive my reply to your Sept 23 e-mail off-list? Still waiting for the same parcel October 4. A number of Internet services seem to be blocking personal replies.
<deceased> in Legacy 6 death date field is changed automatically to Deceased with 0 in the age at death display on the data entry screen. The results of words in date fields would need to be checked in *every* application used by a Legacy customer and his/her research contacts. Could be variations in specific versions of applications used to import a Legacy GEDCOM. In the past, there have been many variations in results of transfers of the Legacy GEDCOMs -- default with maximum custom detail, "standard GED 5.5" and Basic. Simple data entry that works for all applications may be easier than constant testing of transfers with custom data entry choices. Estimated dates are preferable to words or date ranges in my experience with GEDCOM transfers. Deceased is accepted in the death date field of another genealogy program but the LIVING check box is kept. Deceased is accepted by PAF 5 which has no living check box. Living "no" in Legacy used to result in a "Y" in the death location field of an older version of a genealogy program used for charts. My personal preference is to estimate dates of birth and death for nearly every individual in my databases so I can view custom reports of individuals who were alive at the time of a census or old enough to have married. Sometimes I enter the country of death. "He died in USA" looks better in a report with computerized sentences than "He was born. He died." -- Elizabeth ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary I'm wondering if this will be recognized by Rootsweb as an indication of the person being deceased and keep their software from marking them as living? Does "anything" in the death date field OR death location field result in their software NOT marking that person as living? I'd surely check with Rootsweb before I took the time to make this change on 30,000 people. Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
