I like the way Wendy worked around the issue. The KEY being that she used a copy of her original file so that she ended up with two files, one with living persons and one without living persons. Realizing that once a living person is deleted all persons following are also gone.
Jerry -------------------------------------------------- From: "Ron Ferguson" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 1:06 PM To: <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Set living persons as private > Wendy, > > A word of caution when using this method. With Genes ReUnited it works > reasonably well, but with a Legacy Pedigree tree it can cause problems, > because if a person is not included then a descendant who one may wish to > include eg. a deceased child of a living person will not be shown in the > correct part of the tree but as an island tree. This may not be what is > required eg. a serviceman killed in action. If "Private" or "Living" is > used > then they will. > > Ron Ferguson > http://www.fergys.co.uk/ > -------------------------------------------------- > From: "Wendy Howard" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, October 08, 2010 8:26 PM > To: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Set living persons as private > >> Hi Jerry, >> >>> Individual living persons were not set as private when they were >>> entered. So now when I want to produce a web page I do not want to >>> show living individuals. How do I set the private setting for all of >>> the living persons without going into each individual file? >>> >> >> I found myself in a similar situation this week when I prepared a GEDCOM >> file for uploading to Genes Reunited. I didn't want living people in >> the file, even to acknowledge that they exist. >> >> First, I made a copy of my file and worked with that. I was wanting to >> include only people I'd marked with Tag 2, which was already set, so I >> took steps to delete everyone else - I won't bore you with those >> details, since it's not part of what we're talking about here. >> >> Next, I did a search for all living people. Search > Look for whom? = >> Individual, Where to look = Living, How to look = Equal to, What to look >> for = YES > Create list. >> >> Then, in the Search List, click on Options > Advanced Tagging. Select >> an unused Tag (I used 6) and set that number in the box "Make changes on >> #". And the click on the "Everyone in Search List" button. >> >> Now, everyone in the file who is marked as Living has Tag 6 (or your tag >> of choice) set. >> >> You can now go to Tools > Advanced Deleting and delete everyone with >> that tag number. Make sure you change the tag number - it always starts >> at #1 and it would be easy to forget to alter the number if you were >> using a different one. Another good argument for working on a copy of >> your file, so you can start again if you make a mistake. >> >> When I was doing this exercise, I deleted one-by-one - I wanted to >> retain myself, my partner and his parents to tie his ancestors to mine, >> so did not delete those people. You can make it delete all the selected >> people in one hit if you prefer - I could have removed the tag on those >> four people first and then done a mass delete, if I'd thought of it at >> the time. >> >> What I was left with was a file containing the people I wanted to >> include in the GEDCOM, ready to export. And my original file was >> untouched. >> >> When I exported I selected to "Suppress details for living people" and >> "Change name to "Living"", then after I'd uploaded the file to Genes >> Reunited quickly altered those four remaining living people to appear as >> I wanted (ie, put my own name in for me, and "Living SURNAME" for the >> other three, slightly incorrect birth years, and country of birth only) >> so it made sense to others viewing the tree. I could have done that in >> the GEDCOM file before uploading, instead, but this seemed the simplest. >> >> Hope this helps. :-) >> >> Kind Regards, >> Wendy Howard >> -- >> Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand >> http://freepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wendyh65/ >> <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/> >> >> > > > > > > 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 > > > > 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
