When I had that problem, I went to the Index view and added the column entitled "Living". While I had to re-adjust the columnar widths so that I could see more columns for each person, I found it a lot easier to see those who were marked as either "No" for not living or "Yes" for living.
This allowed me to see people and their relevant info on one line. Just clicking on a line opened up the Individual's Information screen where I could then change the status from Living to Deceased. I found this way to be relative easy. I was also clicked on the RIN section at the top of the page which sorted everyone by RIN numbers. In that way, I knew where I stopped editing the Living status when I stopped an editing session. Then I wrote down the last RIN number viewed or edited so that I knew where to start the next time I picked up the task again. -----Original Message----- From: k...@legacyfamilytree.com [mailto:k...@legacyfamilytree.com] On Behalf Of Michele Lewis Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 7:08 PM To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Subject: [LegacyUG] living again I did everything y'all to do but the program is still killing people that are long dead. If someone married in 1821 there is no way they could be alive but Legacy is marking them as living unless I manually kill them off. I have tagged everyone in my file that is marked as living that doesn't have a birth date and I am killing them off one at a time. I only have 2000 more to check! Maybe Legacy can add some additional parameters for automatically killing people off. If a person was married 100 years ago or more he is probably dead. If his mother died over 100 years ago he is probably dead etc. The problem is that my uploaded file on the internet has 1/3 of the people marked as living so my file isn't very helpful to anyone. michele ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eileen" <reilee...@yahoo.com> To: <LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com> Sent: Thursday, October 08, 2009 5:53 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Master l Source is messing up > Well I just hate to write again about anything to do with Legacy, I have > not > done anymore updates for fear of some unknown happening. I'm on version > 7.0.090 and have used the program since version 4. > > I have been updating all my families with their 1850 census, I go to the > Master Source List, go to Source, open the file and go down the list > checking everything that shows it has a 1850 census. Ask it to show me > the > list, to make sure all are checked with a number 2, close it and go to the > next one. > > I have come on a group under Indiana, Clay Co., Van Buren Twp., - 1850 and > the next on the list is the same everything except it's a 1860. These two > list has 18 people, All eighteen have both the 1850 census and the 1860 > census. > > All of the people on both these lists have 1850 census and 1860 census on > their family screens, all information shows correct, all sources show > correct, but on the Master list, only half of them (11) show on 1850 list > and (7) show on the 1860. > > So I went through all the 1860 deleted the old 1860 from the Events list, > re-added it and everything on my Master Source list finally showed up just > right, all on both the 1850 & 1860 lists. > > Shut the program down, since I was almost sick thinking of all I was going > to have to change when I finally felt up to it. Some hours have gone bye, > open up the program, went right to the Master Source and guess what half > is > on the 1850 and half are on the 1860. Right back to where they were before > all the work deleting and adding the census again. What in the world is > happening? Can I sent attachments so you can look at the papers I printed > out? It might help you understand what I'm writing. > > I know I don't seem to be able to explain things clearly so staff can > understand what I telling them. But this is a mess and I afraid to check > anymore files but know that there are more errors. > > Pleae help as soon as possible > thanks > Eileen > > > > > > 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: 8.5.421 / Virus Database: 270.14.8/2423 - Release Date: 10/08/09 18:33:00 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 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
