As a side note. I changed in preferences to have all new records added with the living indicator set to no (deceased). That way all I have to remember is to change the indicator when people are living. I kept forgetting to set it to deceased before. I'm not having a problem with deceased people showing as living on Rootsweb, as long as I have them marked deceased on the indicator.
I did have this problem before. I used the tool in Legacy 5 (haven't tried vs. 6 on this) to mark people as deceased but it wasn't getting everyone that was deceased marked. (Some people didn't have birth information, so it wasn't calculating things correctly.) Rootsweb also wasn't taking out the deceased correctly. I had to go in individually and look at all the living and mark then as deceased on the indicator, what a pain. So not to recreate the problem again in the future I make sure any new people added are marked deceased and then I change it if they are living. Renee Zamora www.harrisena.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sondra Miller-Prowett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, October 04, 2005 4:16 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Problem with marking individuals as "dead" > 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 > 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
