Hi Kent,
It matters because not all your export of data may be to Rootsweb
that obviously have a control of their own.
You can use Advanced Set Living to automagically "kill off" those
marked living who lived in the 1700s.
This is a deluxe feature.
Cathy
At 03:06 AM 5/03/2008, you wrote:
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
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