OK, I’m going to go out on a limb here and say that your method in not necessarily correct and somewhat misleading (but then again, maybe its only me that has been mislead). I believe that changing the settings for the automatically assumed dead only applies to individuals wherein no death date information has been entered. In the example given by the OP, Legacy is trying to assume that the person is automatically dead because the age exceeds the settings. However, when the user specifically tells Legacy that the person is still living, that is a “manual override” and from that point on Legacy should be showing that person as still living. The OP has stated that Legacy wants to override the user which is something that should not be happening.
Assuming that I’m not totally off-base here and the program should work as I believe and apparently as the OP thinks it should, then the question before us is why is Legacy not accepting the user’s input? My first question to the OP would be if he/she is reading the family file from a CD/DVD non-rewritable media (which would explain why the user’s input is not “sticking”? Brian in CA -------------------------------------- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 1:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Living? Rita, You need to change your settings for the age to set as dead. If you change this to 95 or 100, it will not affect any existing data (dead individuals will not return to life), but it will allow you to have someone live to an older age. Currently I have mine set at 110 because I have a living relative who is 105. Good Luck, Bryan On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 1:50 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: Hi, I have an individual in my data that is 91 years old. In my Options > Customize> Data Entry, I have "Set as dead if over 90". When I go and mark my 91 year old relative as "Living" and click save, my relative does not stay "Living". Is that the way it is supposed to work? What would be the purpose of the Living? Yes or No if I can't make it what I want? Rita in South Carolina Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages after Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Archived messages from old mail server - before Nov. 21 2009: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
