Hi Brian Ah - that never occurred to me.
I will check that globally on Legacy. Glad I used this forum and not reporting it as a bug then! Thanks and merry Christmas. Jemima -----Original Message----- From: Brian/Support [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, December 21, 2011 12:49 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Reporting a bug In Legacy you can mark a person as not living without specifying any information on the death, date, place etc. The only way Legacy can indicate that situation when exporting to a GEDCOM is to use the Y with the DEAT tag to indicate the person is dead. Do not bother reporting it as a BUG. Brian Customer Support Millennia Corporation [email protected] http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com We are changing the world of genealogy! When replying to this message, please include all previous correspondence. Thanks. On 21/12/2011 6:31 AM, ArdenholmeGenealogy wrote: > Hello group > > Please may I ask how can I report a bug? I will explain what the bug > is here anyway to see if any of you noticed the same? > > Whenever I export my Legacy file into GEDCOM, I always check it in > GEDCOM format using the wonderful tool program – The Complete > Genealogy Products’ GedPad Pro – for my satisfaction before > importing into another program. > > What I see in GedPad Pro is an issue with the Death field – if this > field is blank (i.e. no date or place on it) for any individual – it > is then annotated with a Y. That seems to have been created by Legacy. > I think that shouldn’t have happened at all. > > If I don’t amend this – i.e. removing the letter Y – the death > field on charts will all have the Y in it. > > Hope this makes sense. > > Jemima > > > > 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 > Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) > and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). > 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). 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 Follow Legacy on Facebook (http://www.facebook.com/LegacyFamilyTree) and on our blog (http://news.LegacyFamilyTree.com). To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
