Kent
Surely people are one or the other and it is quite important to know the difference. The difference, in terms of your research work, is that if they are living then it is pointless searching for where they are buried. An added advantage to setting the status is that if you publish your tree then you save any embarrassment by excluding the details of living people. Whilst you may have no data to support the idea, it is quite reasonable to presume that anybody who was born more than, say, 105 years ago is now deceased. It is equally logical (if you are going to publish your tree) to presume that, without other information, that somebody under 90 is possibly alive. Legacy has a system called “advanced set living” to set the Living indicator using such criteria where you haven’t bothered. It can only calculated “as best it can”, but it is an excellent first step Jack From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Myrick Sent: 04 March 2008 18:06 To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Customize unentered person as non-living I wonder if I'm missing something, because it has never occurred to me to mark someone for whom I have no data as Living or Dead. There is only one reason I can think of: uploading my file to RootsWeb.com. Obviously I don't want living people to show up on the internet. So I just checked some of my internet listings, compared to my Legacy file, for people for whom I have no data at all, aside from their names. For people probably born in the 1960s - or yesterday - Legacy marks them as Living. For people probably born in the 1700s, Legacy marks them as Living too. BUT when I upload to RootsWeb.com, the names from the earlier times are listed, and the younger ones are not. I don't know how they get sorted out, but SINCE they do, nothing would change if I marked one group Living and the other Dead. So why would it matter? (I've used Legacy for years and love it, but I just joined this group last week. I'm finding questions about things I've never thought of!) Kent Myrick tabase: 269.21.4/1310 - Release Date: 04/03/2008 08:35 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.516 / Virus Database: 269.21.4/1310 - Release Date: 04/03/2008 08:35 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
