Carol-
You said:
One additional small thing I miss in FTM is the ease with which they had
an alert on possible duplicates.
Well, Legacy does find duplicates for you.
1. Open Legacy
2. Click on Tools (at the top)
3. one of the options is "Merge." Click it.
4. 3 options, and you want the "Find Duplicates."
You can intellimurder your ancestors! <g> Go to:
1. Options >> Options >> Data Entry.
2. Look for the "Presumed Dead" section.
I have mine set to ask me if a person is living if after 90 years of
age. If the person is older than 112, Legacy lists them as dead
automatically. But you can choose whatever values you want.
Will that do it?
Let us know.
Robert
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Many times, a research document may show the names of children, but
not give the birth/death dates. I had 65,000 names when I transferred
by database from FTM to Legacy. Now, on Legacy,I find this wonderful
little button that allows me to show whether the person is living or
dead.
I'm finding in my transferred data that "non-dated" children of
parents who m. back in the 1700s, are showing as "living". Several
questions: Do I need to go back and change each one using the Legacy
button to show "not living"? In the future, should I just record "yes"
in the death date area if I know the person has died, but have no
dates? (I could not do this on FTM).
Also, it's interesting to find that there is no software check on a
wife with no dates, who married a man with birth/death dates back in
the 1600-1700s. The husband can show as "not living", but if there's
no marriage date, then the wife shows as living. Again, I'm correcting
all these one-by-one.
One additional small thing I miss in FTM is the ease with which they
had an alert on possible duplicates. I don't find that Legacy catches
duplicates very easily. Maybe these things will change in the new version.
Carol
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