Greetings Dennis, OK, I thought I was going a little crazy here but after a little bit of checking things out, it turns out that were are talking about two closely related situations in which the auto-death setting comes into play.
For the first scenario, let's say my auto-death setting is 100 years. I enter a person born in 1909 which makes him 100 years old and there is no death date information. Legacy immediately opens a window and says "This person has no death information and was born (100) years ago. This person is currently set as living. Is this person still alive?" If I answer YES to Legacy's question, that person will be marked as LIVING and it does not change even if I close the program and come back later. My manual setting of LIVING is sticky. As a side note, Legacy is smart enough to realize this may change and if I ever edit that person's Individual Information again, Legacy will once again remind me that I need to decide if the person is still living. Now let's change the numbers slightly for a second scenario. Suppose I enter a person that was born in 1908 with no death date information and my auto-death setting remains at 100. That makes the persons age 101. Legacy does not even bother asking me about the person because his/her age is MORE THAN the auto-death setting. But what if the person were still living and out of 50,000 names in my family file, he is the only person that lived to be older than 100. Bad news, because Legacy will automatically mark him as NOT LIVING. OK, no problem. On the person's Individual Information window, I can go in an click on the LIVING-YES button and when I cursor off that line, the setting seems to stick but when I close the window, it reverts back to LIVING-NO. There is no way to override when a person's age exceeds the auto-death setting. Perhaps I had gotten the mistaken impression that the OP was greeted by that dialog box I talked about in my first paragraph thus my reason for questioning why is was not "sticky" for the OP. In the second scenario, it works as you described and as you state you like the way it works. I also like the fact that Legacy has such an auto-death setting and will magically go into a person's family file and "kill off" all those old folk just hanging around for 200 years or more where no death date info was ever entered. But I do have to state that I should think a user should be able to pick one individual who happened to outlive everybody's expectations (and the auto-death setting) and manually set the person as still living and have that override stick. Since the option to even pick LIVING-YES on such people still exists within the program, I wonder if the programmer's got it right, that is forgot about making the manual override stick. Oh well, a little older and a little wiser. Mark myself as LIVING-YES Brian in CA -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 16, 2009 3:40 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Living? On Wed, 16 Dec 2009 15:15:55 -0800, [email protected] wrote: >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? It has always worked the way the OP describes. If the OP wants it to work differently, he/she needs to adjust the settings. I have mine set to ask if over 90, and to set to dead if over 110. There is also a setting for the Living Indicator Default which could come into play. I like the way it currently works. -- Dennis Kowallek (LTools) http://zippersoftware.com/ltools http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ltools 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
