Saves one set of hassles and introduces another ;-) So long as you can remember to mark the living, living, that's fine. For me it is too big a privacy risk to have people automatically set to deceased when added.
The Legacy 7 Advanced Set Living Tool was as effective as the Legacy 8 one. I don't think there has been a change in this tool for awhile. There has been changes from when it was first introduced to take account of more surrounding family. Cathy Mike Fry wrote: > On 04 Jun 2014 00:53, Cathy Pinner wrote: > >> If you have the Deluxe version, you can use the Tool - Advanced Set >> Living. This takes in more parameters than the automatic change to dead >> on save. It should mark your couple married in the 1700s dead. >> The Advanced Set Living tool is one of those to run periodically. It >> supplies a list of anyone it changes from Living to Dead. > > Long, long ago, I decided to set the option when adding a new person to the > file > to be deceased. Working on the va lid assumption that I have more ancestors than > peers or descendants, this saves a lot of hassles. > > The version of the tool before the advent of Legacy 8.0 is practically > useless. > 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
