TIP OF THE DAY (Legacy Staff) - IntelliMurder and why it is important All versions (4+)
Tools > Advanced Set Living. We (programmers and staff) affectionately call this feature "IntelliMurder." It will go through your file and kill off people that are most assuredly dead. Legacy automatically kills people for you if you enter a birth date but no death date if they are older than whatever you have set in Option 2.3. IntelliMurder goes a step further. If you don't have a birth date it will use the surrounding people and other information to determine if the person should be dead. So why is this so important? If you do any sort of export and you use privacy options to privatize living people you will end up privatizing people from the 1700s that weren't automatically marked as descended. Also, if you add people to FamilySearch and they are dead but marked as living no one can see these people except for you. I run the IntelliMurder routine from time to time just for fun but I always run it before I do an export. I just ran it and Legacy killed 11 people in my file. For example, it killed off Carl Friedrich Gläntzer because he was married on 01 April 1777 and his kids were born in 1779, 1782, 1785, 1788 and 1791. Michele Simmons Lewis, CG Legacy Family Tree [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> www.legacyfamilytree.com <http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/> Certified Genealogist is a registered trademark and the designation CG is a service mark of the Board for Certification of GenealogistsR, used under license by Board certificants who meet competency standards.
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