Yes this works. It's what I did myself. Put Deceased in the death location field for ALL dead. I actually did it as a search and replace and then worked through all the LIVING records taking it out! LOL I had much fewer living people than I had dead ones in my file. Sondra ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Fowler Leek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 10:52 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with marking individuals as "dead"
<snipped> | My database is over 107,000 people and I need to mark about 30,000+ | records as "deceased". <snipped> | Deidrich Fehr --------------------------------------------- | Deidrich, | | Put the word Deceased <snipped> -- Alice ------------------------------------------------------- Alice, This is about the best I can think of, too, but 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. Since we have the ability in Legacy to mark someone as "NOT Living", without having to have something entered in those data fields, it would be nice to have the option of automatically including the word <deceased> in the death date field for those who are marked as "NOT Living", especially if this would trigger the proper response when uploading a Legacy gedcom to the Rootsweb site. Mary 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 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
