Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
If you go to ToolsAdvanced Set Living, then you can have the program locate everyone who is likely to be over 120 old and set them as not living. The program will use birth or death dates of parents, children or anyone else to figure out if the person could possibly be 120 years of age or older. Then the person is set as not living so that you don't have to do it all manually. You can even see a list of who was changed from living to not living. This is a feature highlighted on the training DVDs for version 7.0. Ellen Kramer Researching and loving Dorman, Kramer, Mirarchi, Procopio, Renninger and Staudt-Stoudt-Stout families On Sep 30, 2009, at 8:07 PM, Jim Walton wrote: If you are using Legacy 7 there is an entry under CustomizeData Entry where you can set the age at which a person is Presumed Dead. It defaults to ask if over 90 and set as dead if over 120. You can change these years then hit the Apply button and it will update your database accordingly. It only changes records with no death date entered, so you might set it to set everyone at 80 years, at least temporarily. This may not get them all, but it should clean up the bulk of them. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Rita Lynn McKale cagr...@comporium.net wrote: Would someone tell me how to do this search? Thanks. Rita in South Carolina -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Michele Lewis Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:30 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living I don't think so Ron. I tagged over 1000 people in my file that fit the following criteria... no death date set as living Over 3/4 of those tagged are people that would have died before 1900 and couldn't possibly be alive. They had parents with birth dates of 1750 or children with birthdates of 1790 (you get the idea). I am manually going in and marking them as dead. I realize it is partly my problem for not estimating birth and death dates or manually marking them as dead when I enter them. michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:48 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele, That is not so. It will look at ancestors and descendants and decide if they would have been over whatever date you have set for the life span. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Bogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:48:37 -0400 I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele - Original Message - From: Gene Young To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele Lewis wrote: I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your file is blocked out that shouldn't be. I am having to go through and find all these (I did it with a simple search, any body with no date of death that is marked living). michele From the help file; Advanced Set Living There are several Legacy reports, plus web pages, where the privacy of anyone whose Living status is set to Yes is protected by suppressing all personal details. When creating these reports, no information is included for ancestors born centuries ago if they are inadvertently left set as Living. Normally an individual's Living status is set at the time they are manually entered. The process is automatic if their death or burial information is entered or their birth or christening date is more than 120 years ago. If no birth, christening, death, or burial information is entered, their status remains at the default Yes, if not changed to No. It is an easy task to set the Living status of a few individuals manually, but the task can become formidable when adding hundreds or thousands of new people to your family file with a GEDCOM import. This is where the Advanced Set Living feature comes in handy. This option does an intelligent search through your entire family file
RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
Would someone tell me how to do this search? Thanks. Rita in South Carolina -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Michele Lewis Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:30 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living I don't think so Ron. I tagged over 1000 people in my file that fit the following criteria... no death date set as living Over 3/4 of those tagged are people that would have died before 1900 and couldn't possibly be alive. They had parents with birth dates of 1750 or children with birthdates of 1790 (you get the idea). I am manually going in and marking them as dead. I realize it is partly my problem for not estimating birth and death dates or manually marking them as dead when I enter them. michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:48 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele, That is not so. It will look at ancestors and descendants and decide if they would have been over whatever date you have set for the life span. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Bogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:48:37 -0400 I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele - Original Message - From: Gene Young To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele Lewis wrote: I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your file is blocked out that shouldn't be. I am having to go through and find all these (I did it with a simple search, any body with no date of death that is marked living). michele From the help file; Advanced Set Living There are several Legacy reports, plus web pages, where the privacy of anyone whose Living status is set to Yes is protected by suppressing all personal details. When creating these reports, no information is included for ancestors born centuries ago if they are inadvertently left set as Living. Normally an individual's Living status is set at the time they are manually entered. The process is automatic if their death or burial information is entered or their birth or christening date is more than 120 years ago. If no birth, christening, death, or burial information is entered, their status remains at the default Yes, if not changed to No. It is an easy task to set the Living status of a few individuals manually, but the task can become formidable when adding hundreds or thousands of new people to your family file with a GEDCOM import. This is where the Advanced Set Living feature comes in handy. This option does an intelligent search through your entire family file looking for people that are older than the cutoff age, which is usually 120 years old. When someone of this age is found, it is assumed that all of their ancestors are older than that and that they are all dead. Legacy then sets their Living flag to NO as far back as the line goes from there, regardless of whether or not they have birth or christening dates. To use the Advanced Set Living feature: 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. 2. Set the cutoff age at the desired level by either typing in the number or by using the up and down arrows of the spin control. 3. Click the Start button. Legacy goes through your entire family file setting the Living flag to NO when it is determined that they are older than the you specified. When finished, Legacy asks if you would like to see a list of all the people who had their Living flag set to NO. To view the list, click Yes. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
Rita, SearchFindDetailed search. then: 1st Row: Individual, Birth Date, Equal to, leave the last field blank. AND 2nd Row: Individual, Living, Equal to, Yes. BTW. the advanced set living does work as I stated in my post. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ Follow me on twitter http://twitter.com/ronfergy Rita Lynn McKale wrote: Would someone tell me how to do this search? Thanks. Rita in South Carolina -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Michele Lewis Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:30 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living I don't think so Ron. I tagged over 1000 people in my file that fit the following criteria... no death date set as living Over 3/4 of those tagged are people that would have died before 1900 and couldn't possibly be alive. They had parents with birth dates of 1750 or children with birthdates of 1790 (you get the idea). I am manually going in and marking them as dead. I realize it is partly my problem for not estimating birth and death dates or manually marking them as dead when I enter them. michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:48 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele, That is not so. It will look at ancestors and descendants and decide if they would have been over whatever date you have set for the life span. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Bogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:48:37 -0400 I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele - Original Message - From: Gene Young To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele Lewis wrote: I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your file is blocked out that shouldn't be. I am having to go through and find all these (I did it with a simple search, any body with no date of death that is marked living). michele From the help file; Advanced Set Living There are several Legacy reports, plus web pages, where the privacy of anyone whose Living status is set to Yes is protected by suppressing all personal details. When creating these reports, no information is included for ancestors born centuries ago if they are inadvertently left set as Living. Normally an individual's Living status is set at the time they are manually entered. The process is automatic if their death or burial information is entered or their birth or christening date is more than 120 years ago. If no birth, christening, death, or burial information is entered, their status remains at the default Yes, if not changed to No. It is an easy task to set the Living status of a few individuals manually, but the task can become formidable when adding hundreds or thousands of new people to your family file with a GEDCOM import. This is where the Advanced Set Living feature comes in handy. This option does an intelligent search through your entire family file looking for people that are older than the cutoff age, which is usually 120 years old. When someone of this age is found, it is assumed that all of their ancestors are older than that and that they are all dead. Legacy then sets their Living flag to NO as far back as the line goes from there, regardless of whether or not they have birth or christening dates. To use the Advanced Set Living feature: 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. 2. Set the cutoff age at the desired level by either typing in the number or by using the up and down arrows of the spin control. 3. Click the Start button. Legacy goes through your entire family file setting the Living flag to NO when it is determined
Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
If you are using Legacy 7 there is an entry under CustomizeData Entry where you can set the age at which a person is Presumed Dead. It defaults to ask if over 90 and set as dead if over 120. You can change these years then hit the Apply button and it will update your database accordingly. It only changes records with no death date entered, so you might set it to set everyone at 80 years, at least temporarily. This may not get them all, but it should clean up the bulk of them. On Thu, Oct 1, 2009 at 3:16 AM, Rita Lynn McKale cagr...@comporium.netwrote: Would someone tell me how to do this search? Thanks. Rita in South Carolina -Original Message- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Michele Lewis Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:30 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living I don't think so Ron. I tagged over 1000 people in my file that fit the following criteria... no death date set as living Over 3/4 of those tagged are people that would have died before 1900 and couldn't possibly be alive. They had parents with birth dates of 1750 or children with birthdates of 1790 (you get the idea). I am manually going in and marking them as dead. I realize it is partly my problem for not estimating birth and death dates or manually marking them as dead when I enter them. michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:48 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele, That is not so. It will look at ancestors and descendants and decide if they would have been over whatever date you have set for the life span. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Bogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:48:37 -0400 I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele - Original Message - From: Gene Young To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele Lewis wrote: I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your file is blocked out that shouldn't be. I am having to go through and find all these (I did it with a simple search, any body with no date of death that is marked living). michele From the help file; Advanced Set Living There are several Legacy reports, plus web pages, where the privacy of anyone whose Living status is set to Yes is protected by suppressing all personal details. When creating these reports, no information is included for ancestors born centuries ago if they are inadvertently left set as Living. Normally an individual's Living status is set at the time they are manually entered. The process is automatic if their death or burial information is entered or their birth or christening date is more than 120 years ago. If no birth, christening, death, or burial information is entered, their status remains at the default Yes, if not changed to No. It is an easy task to set the Living status of a few individuals manually, but the task can become formidable when adding hundreds or thousands of new people to your family file with a GEDCOM import. This is where the Advanced Set Living feature comes in handy. This option does an intelligent search through your entire family file looking for people that are older than the cutoff age, which is usually 120 years old. When someone of this age is found, it is assumed that all of their ancestors are older than that and that they are all dead. Legacy then sets their Living flag to NO as far back as the line goes from there, regardless of whether or not they have birth or christening dates. To use the Advanced Set Living feature: 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. 2. Set the cutoff age at the desired level by either typing in the number or by using the up and down arrows of the spin control. 3. Click the Start button. Legacy goes through your entire family file
RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
Michele, We seem to be at cross-purposes here. No, I was not suggesting that one updates before transferring to Legacy (your last post). OptionsCustomiseData Entry does what it says on the tin! it applies when one is making a *Data Entry* ie. adding or amending data. Thus if you enter someone with a birthdate more than (say) 120 years ago is will automatically set them to dead. If there is no birthdate and no death it will set them according to your Living Indicator Defaults (OptionsCustomiseData Defaults) and will not make any calculation was to whether the individual should be living or otherwise. If using ToolsAdvanced Living killed off 500 people, then within your files you had 500 people who were older than the setting which you made when using the tool. Thus you had 500 people set to living but who are, in fact, dead. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 20:12:57 -0400 I am going to OPTIONS, CUSTOMIZE, DATA ENTRY, then there is a section titled Presumed Dead I have that set up but when I did it your way it killed off over 500 more people! michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 4:41 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele, How are you doing this? If you go to ToolsAdvanced Set Living, set the age to whatever age you require for age at death and run, it will set them all above that age as dead. No tags no nothing. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:29:44 -0400 I don't think so Ron. I tagged over 1000 people in my file that fit the following criteria... no death date set as living Over 3/4 of those tagged are people that would have died before 1900 and couldn't possibly be alive. They had parents with birth dates of 1750 or children with birthdates of 1790 (you get the idea). I am manually going in and marking them as dead. I realize it is partly my problem for not estimating birth and death dates or manually marking them as dead when I enter them. michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:48 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele, That is not so. It will look at ancestors and descendants and decide if they would have been over whatever date you have set for the life span. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Bogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:48:37 -0400 I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele - Original Message - From: Gene Young To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele Lewis wrote: I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your file is blocked out that shouldn't be. I am having to go through and find all these (I did it with a simple search, any body with no date of death that is marked living). michele From the help file; Advanced Set Living There are several Legacy reports, plus web pages, where the privacy of anyone whose Living status is set
Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
Michele Lewis wrote: Okay regroup I have it set like that under options. I did exactly as your said and did it off of the tools menu and you were right. It marked 508 people as dead. Why is it then that I have it set up properly on the options menu but it isn't working. I go to the tool menu and use the same age cut off and it works. michele One way is a SETTING that marks NEW people you are currently entering, the other is a TOOL that retroactively searches for EXISTING people who meet the criteria and re-sets their living status according to the rules you have defined. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
Michele Lewis wrote: I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your file is blocked out that shouldn't be. I am having to go through and find all these (I did it with a simple search, any body with no date of death that is marked living). michele From the help file; Advanced Set Living There are several Legacy reports, plus web pages, where the privacy of anyone whose Living status is set to Yes is protected by suppressing all personal details. When creating these reports, no information is included for ancestors born centuries ago if they are inadvertently left set as Living. Normally an individual's Living status is set at the time they are manually entered. The process is automatic if their death or burial information is entered or their birth or christening date is more than 120 years ago. If no birth, christening, death, or burial information is entered, their status remains at the default Yes, if not changed to No. It is an easy task to set the Living status of a few individuals manually, but the task can become formidable when adding hundreds or thousands of new people to your family file with a GEDCOM import. This is where the Advanced Set Living feature comes in handy. This option does an intelligent search through your entire family file looking for people that are older than the cutoff age, which is usually 120 years old. When someone of this age is found, it is assumed that all of their ancestors are older than that and that they are all dead. Legacy then sets their Living flag to NO as far back as the line goes from there, regardless of whether or not they have birth or christening dates. To use the Advanced Set Living feature: 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. 2. Set the cutoff age at the desired level by either typing in the number or by using the up and down arrows of the spin control. 3. Click the Start button. Legacy goes through your entire family file setting the Living flag to NO when it is determined that they are older than the you specified. When finished, Legacy asks if you would like to see a list of all the people who had their Living flag set to NO. To view the list, click Yes. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
Michele, Go to optionscustomizedata entry and you can solve your problem quite easily. Jon Raymond St Paul Park, MN http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~raymond/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
Go to Options - Customise - Data Entry and you can set your Presumed Dead preferences. Barbara - Original Message - From: Michele Lewis cranberryf...@charter.net To: Legacy E-Mail List LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 3:16 PM Subject: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your file is blocked out that shouldn't be. I am having to go through and find all these (I did it with a simple search, any body with no date of death that is marked living). michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele - Original Message - From: Gene Young n2...@cfl.rr.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele Lewis wrote: I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your file is blocked out that shouldn't be. I am having to go through and find all these (I did it with a simple search, any body with no date of death that is marked living). michele From the help file; Advanced Set Living There are several Legacy reports, plus web pages, where the privacy of anyone whose Living status is set to Yes is protected by suppressing all personal details. When creating these reports, no information is included for ancestors born centuries ago if they are inadvertently left set as Living. Normally an individual's Living status is set at the time they are manually entered. The process is automatic if their death or burial information is entered or their birth or christening date is more than 120 years ago. If no birth, christening, death, or burial information is entered, their status remains at the default Yes, if not changed to No. It is an easy task to set the Living status of a few individuals manually, but the task can become formidable when adding hundreds or thousands of new people to your family file with a GEDCOM import. This is where the Advanced Set Living feature comes in handy. This option does an intelligent search through your entire family file looking for people that are older than the cutoff age, which is usually 120 years old. When someone of this age is found, it is assumed that all of their ancestors are older than that and that they are all dead. Legacy then sets their Living flag to NO as far back as the line goes from there, regardless of whether or not they have birth or christening dates. To use the Advanced Set Living feature: 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. 2. Set the cutoff age at the desired level by either typing in the number or by using the up and down arrows of the spin control. 3. Click the Start button. Legacy goes through your entire family file setting the Living flag to NO when it is determined that they are older than the you specified. When finished, Legacy asks if you would like to see a list of all the people who had their Living flag set to NO. To view the list, click Yes. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.87/2356 - Release Date: 09/09/09 06:53:00 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
Michele, That is not so. It will look at ancestors and descendants and decide if they would have been over whatever date you have set for the life span. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Bogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:48:37 -0400 I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele - Original Message - From: Gene Young To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele Lewis wrote: I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your file is blocked out that shouldn't be. I am having to go through and find all these (I did it with a simple search, any body with no date of death that is marked living). michele From the help file; Advanced Set Living There are several Legacy reports, plus web pages, where the privacy of anyone whose Living status is set to Yes is protected by suppressing all personal details. When creating these reports, no information is included for ancestors born centuries ago if they are inadvertently left set as Living. Normally an individual's Living status is set at the time they are manually entered. The process is automatic if their death or burial information is entered or their birth or christening date is more than 120 years ago. If no birth, christening, death, or burial information is entered, their status remains at the default Yes, if not changed to No. It is an easy task to set the Living status of a few individuals manually, but the task can become formidable when adding hundreds or thousands of new people to your family file with a GEDCOM import. This is where the Advanced Set Living feature comes in handy. This option does an intelligent search through your entire family file looking for people that are older than the cutoff age, which is usually 120 years old. When someone of this age is found, it is assumed that all of their ancestors are older than that and that they are all dead. Legacy then sets their Living flag to NO as far back as the line goes from there, regardless of whether or not they have birth or christening dates. To use the Advanced Set Living feature: 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. 2. Set the cutoff age at the desired level by either typing in the number or by using the up and down arrows of the spin control. 3. Click the Start button. Legacy goes through your entire family file setting the Living flag to NO when it is determined that they are older than the you specified. When finished, Legacy asks if you would like to see a list of all the people who had their Living flag set to NO. To view the list, click Yes. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ _ Learn how to add other email accounts to Hotmail in 3 easy steps. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
Michele Lewis wrote: I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele To use the Advanced Set Living feature: 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. 2. Set the cutoff age at the desired level by either typing in the number or by using the up and down arrows of the spin control. 3. Click the Start button. Legacy goes through your entire family file setting the Living flag to NO when it is determined that they are older than the you specified. When finished, Legacy asks if you would like to see a list of all the people who had their Living flag set to NO. To view the list, click Yes. As the help file indicates, Legacy will use information from relatives to help determine dead or living status. You must do the above to have Legacy scan your file and correct the flags. In the help file search Intellimurder. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
Okay regroup I have it set like that under options. I did exactly as your said and did it off of the tools menu and you were right. It marked 508 people as dead. Why is it then that I have it set up properly on the options menu but it isn't working. I go to the tool menu and use the same age cut off and it works. michele - Original Message - From: Gene Young n2...@cfl.rr.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 12:08 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele Lewis wrote: I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele To use the Advanced Set Living feature: 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. 2. Set the cutoff age at the desired level by either typing in the number or by using the up and down arrows of the spin control. 3. Click the Start button. Legacy goes through your entire family file setting the Living flag to NO when it is determined that they are older than the you specified. When finished, Legacy asks if you would like to see a list of all the people who had their Living flag set to NO. To view the list, click Yes. As the help file indicates, Legacy will use information from relatives to help determine dead or living status. You must do the above to have Legacy scan your file and correct the flags. In the help file search Intellimurder. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.87/2356 - Release Date: 09/09/09 06:53:00 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
Michele, How are you doing this? If you go to ToolsAdvanced Set Living, set the age to whatever age you require for age at death and run, it will set them all above that age as dead. No tags no nothing. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:29:44 -0400 I don't think so Ron. I tagged over 1000 people in my file that fit the following criteria... no death date set as living Over 3/4 of those tagged are people that would have died before 1900 and couldn't possibly be alive. They had parents with birth dates of 1750 or children with birthdates of 1790 (you get the idea). I am manually going in and marking them as dead. I realize it is partly my problem for not estimating birth and death dates or manually marking them as dead when I enter them. michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:48 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele, That is not so. It will look at ancestors and descendants and decide if they would have been over whatever date you have set for the life span. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Bogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:48:37 -0400 I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele - Original Message - From: Gene Young To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele Lewis wrote: I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your file is blocked out that shouldn't be. I am having to go through and find all these (I did it with a simple search, any body with no date of death that is marked living). michele From the help file; Advanced Set Living There are several Legacy reports, plus web pages, where the privacy of anyone whose Living status is set to Yes is protected by suppressing all personal details. When creating these reports, no information is included for ancestors born centuries ago if they are inadvertently left set as Living. Normally an individual's Living status is set at the time they are manually entered. The process is automatic if their death or burial information is entered or their birth or christening date is more than 120 years ago. If no birth, christening, death, or burial information is entered, their status remains at the default Yes, if not changed to No. It is an easy task to set the Living status of a few individuals manually, but the task can become formidable when adding hundreds or thousands of new people to your family file with a GEDCOM import. This is where the Advanced Set Living feature comes in handy. This option does an intelligent search through your entire family file looking for people that are older than the cutoff age, which is usually 120 years old. When someone of this age is found, it is assumed that all of their ancestors are older than that and that they are all dead. Legacy then sets their Living flag to NO as far back as the line goes from there, regardless of whether or not they have birth or christening dates. To use the Advanced Set Living feature: 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. 2. Set the cutoff age at the desired level by either typing in the number or by using the up and down arrows of the spin control. 3. Click the Start button. Legacy goes through your entire family file setting the Living flag to NO when it is determined that they are older than the you specified. When finished, Legacy asks if you would like to see a list of all the people who had their Living flag set to NO. To view the list, click Yes
Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
I don't think so Ron. I tagged over 1000 people in my file that fit the following criteria... no death date set as living Over 3/4 of those tagged are people that would have died before 1900 and couldn't possibly be alive. They had parents with birth dates of 1750 or children with birthdates of 1790 (you get the idea). I am manually going in and marking them as dead. I realize it is partly my problem for not estimating birth and death dates or manually marking them as dead when I enter them. michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:48 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele, That is not so. It will look at ancestors and descendants and decide if they would have been over whatever date you have set for the life span. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Bogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:48:37 -0400 I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele - Original Message - From: Gene Young To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele Lewis wrote: I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your file is blocked out that shouldn't be. I am having to go through and find all these (I did it with a simple search, any body with no date of death that is marked living). michele From the help file; Advanced Set Living There are several Legacy reports, plus web pages, where the privacy of anyone whose Living status is set to Yes is protected by suppressing all personal details. When creating these reports, no information is included for ancestors born centuries ago if they are inadvertently left set as Living. Normally an individual's Living status is set at the time they are manually entered. The process is automatic if their death or burial information is entered or their birth or christening date is more than 120 years ago. If no birth, christening, death, or burial information is entered, their status remains at the default Yes, if not changed to No. It is an easy task to set the Living status of a few individuals manually, but the task can become formidable when adding hundreds or thousands of new people to your family file with a GEDCOM import. This is where the Advanced Set Living feature comes in handy. This option does an intelligent search through your entire family file looking for people that are older than the cutoff age, which is usually 120 years old. When someone of this age is found, it is assumed that all of their ancestors are older than that and that they are all dead. Legacy then sets their Living flag to NO as far back as the line goes from there, regardless of whether or not they have birth or christening dates. To use the Advanced Set Living feature: 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. 2. Set the cutoff age at the desired level by either typing in the number or by using the up and down arrows of the spin control. 3. Click the Start button. Legacy goes through your entire family file setting the Living flag to NO when it is determined that they are older than the you specified. When finished, Legacy asks if you would like to see a list of all the people who had their Living flag set to NO. To view the list, click Yes. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ _ Learn how to add other email accounts to Hotmail in 3 easy steps. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.87/2356 - Release
RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
Michele, The Options settings only ensure that when you enter a *new* individual, if the age of that person would be greater than your selecteed upper age then that person will be automatically marked as dead. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:34:42 -0400 Okay regroup I have it set like that under options. I did exactly as your said and did it off of the tools menu and you were right. It marked 508 people as dead. Why is it then that I have it set up properly on the options menu but it isn't working. I go to the tool menu and use the same age cut off and it works. michele - Original Message - From: Gene Young To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 12:08 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele Lewis wrote: I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele To use the Advanced Set Living feature: 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. 2. Set the cutoff age at the desired level by either typing in the number or by using the up and down arrows of the spin control. 3. Click the Start button. Legacy goes through your entire family file setting the Living flag to NO when it is determined that they are older than the you specified. When finished, Legacy asks if you would like to see a list of all the people who had their Living flag set to NO. To view the list, click Yes. As the help file indicates, Legacy will use information from relatives to help determine dead or living status. You must do the above to have Legacy scan your file and correct the flags. In the help file search Intellimurder. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ _ View your other email accounts from your Hotmail inbox. Add them now. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
Ah! So your way was cleaning up people that were in my file BEFORE I switched over to Legacy. michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 5:56 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele, The Options settings only ensure that when you enter a *new* individual, if the age of that person would be greater than your selecteed upper age then that person will be automatically marked as dead. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:34:42 -0400 Okay regroup I have it set like that under options. I did exactly as your said and did it off of the tools menu and you were right. It marked 508 people as dead. Why is it then that I have it set up properly on the options menu but it isn't working. I go to the tool menu and use the same age cut off and it works. michele - Original Message - From: Gene Young To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 12:08 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele Lewis wrote: I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele To use the Advanced Set Living feature: 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. 2. Set the cutoff age at the desired level by either typing in the number or by using the up and down arrows of the spin control. 3. Click the Start button. Legacy goes through your entire family file setting the Living flag to NO when it is determined that they are older than the you specified. When finished, Legacy asks if you would like to see a list of all the people who had their Living flag set to NO. To view the list, click Yes. As the help file indicates, Legacy will use information from relatives to help determine dead or living status. You must do the above to have Legacy scan your file and correct the flags. In the help file search Intellimurder. -- Gene Y. n2kvs Researching Young, Zies, Harer Cox with Legacy Family Tree http://h1.ripway.com/egptech/ _ View your other email accounts from your Hotmail inbox. Add them now. http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/167688463/direct/01/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.13.87/2356 - Release Date: 09/09/09 06:53:00 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living
I am going to OPTIONS, CUSTOMIZE, DATA ENTRY, then there is a section titled Presumed Dead I have that set up but when I did it your way it killed off over 500 more people! michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson ronfe...@msn.com To: legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 4:41 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele, How are you doing this? If you go to ToolsAdvanced Set Living, set the age to whatever age you require for age at death and run, it will set them all above that age as dead. No tags no nothing. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Blogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 15:29:44 -0400 I don't think so Ron. I tagged over 1000 people in my file that fit the following criteria... no death date set as living Over 3/4 of those tagged are people that would have died before 1900 and couldn't possibly be alive. They had parents with birth dates of 1750 or children with birthdates of 1790 (you get the idea). I am manually going in and marking them as dead. I realize it is partly my problem for not estimating birth and death dates or manually marking them as dead when I enter them. michele - Original Message - From: ronald ferguson To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 11:48 AM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele, That is not so. It will look at ancestors and descendants and decide if they would have been over whatever date you have set for the life span. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed a Bogger RSS feed on your webpage http://www.fergys.co.uk/ View the Grimshaw Family Tree at: http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England See: http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ _ From: cranberryf...@charter.net To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2009 10:48:37 -0400 I have the advanced set living thing set. It automatically marks those over 110 dead but that only works if you have birth and death dates! michele - Original Message - From: Gene Young To: Sent: Wednesday, September 09, 2009 10:27 AM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] marking people as not living Michele Lewis wrote: I just figured something out the hard way. If you don't put a death date for someone it defaults to living even though their parents and children died in the 1700s! The significance to his is when you upload your file with all living persons blocked out a lot of your file is blocked out that shouldn't be. I am having to go through and find all these (I did it with a simple search, any body with no date of death that is marked living). michele From the help file; Advanced Set Living There are several Legacy reports, plus web pages, where the privacy of anyone whose Living status is set to Yes is protected by suppressing all personal details. When creating these reports, no information is included for ancestors born centuries ago if they are inadvertently left set as Living. Normally an individual's Living status is set at the time they are manually entered. The process is automatic if their death or burial information is entered or their birth or christening date is more than 120 years ago. If no birth, christening, death, or burial information is entered, their status remains at the default Yes, if not changed to No. It is an easy task to set the Living status of a few individuals manually, but the task can become formidable when adding hundreds or thousands of new people to your family file with a GEDCOM import. This is where the Advanced Set Living feature comes in handy. This option does an intelligent search through your entire family file looking for people that are older than the cutoff age, which is usually 120 years old. When someone of this age is found, it is assumed that all of their ancestors are older than that and that they are all dead. Legacy then sets their Living flag to NO as far back as the line goes from there, regardless of whether or not they have birth or christening dates. To use the Advanced Set Living feature: 1. Choose Advanced Set Living from the Tools menu. 2. Set the cutoff age at the desired level by either typing in the number or by using the up and down arrows of the spin
