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.
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Gene Y.
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