Cathy, If a person is set to Living = No because there is a “Cause of Death” in Medical Notes then it is no longer an option to be changed on the Individual Information screen. That is why I had to find an alternate route to set living to YES. Howard
From: Cathy Pinner Sent: Monday, November 6, 2017 8:32 PM To: Legacy User Group Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Potential GEDCOM Error Howard, I trust your brother is getting excellent care in the Hospice. Thanks for pointing out what you were using. It's not often I learn of a feature in Legacy I've not been aware of. I use Advanced Set Living quite often but didn't know you could change this setting for a group. I obviously don't use the Name List/Search List often enough and when I do, I know what I'm looking for and don't see the other options. I certainly wouldn't think of using it for an individual or two. Easier to do it on their Individual Information screen where you can find the problem if you can't change the setting. In fact, I can't think of a use for it the way I use Legacy which is no doubt why I don't know about it. It would perhaps be helpful when importing a gedcom where the living setting was a mess. Set everyone without death information to living and then use Advance d set living to set obviously deceased people to dead. Cathy Howard Cady wrote: Cathy, Somewhere in the help listings for Legacy I found a method for resetting the Living Yes/No for a tagged set of individuals. I used tag 8 for the brother as the only tagged individual in my file. Then used the sequence of selections View/ Name List/ Options/ Set Living/ All Individuals Tagged on 8/ Set Living = Yes to try to return the brother to life. I often got a message that 1 Individual had been reset, but found on his Individual Information screen that he was still dead. This brother is in Hospice Care and I had entries under Sources - Death Cause and Medical Notes listing his anticipated “Cause of Death” without realizing that a Sourced Note could actually be fatal without entering anything for Death/Burial information. It took me several attempts at finding and removi ng information, labels, or sources to bring him back to life. I don’t think I had a problem that will occur often. Your initial suggestion was the important clue for fixing my problem and I don’t think further work is needed. Howard *From:* Cathy Pinner *Sent:* Sunday, November 5, 2017 9:55 PM *To:* Legacy User Group *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Potential GEDCOM Error Howard, I'm glad it's sorted but you shouldn't have to remove Medical Notes unless you'd put them in Cause of Death or sourced them as Cause of Death. I just retested this and adding Cause of Death or sources for it doesn't change the Living status either. I don't know what you mean by "View-Set Living". If you mean Tools - Advanced Set Living - well it wouldn't help as it is badly named - it means set the living flag to deceased if the person couldn't still be alive based on surrounding individuals. The unofficial title i s Intellimurder ;) If you mean setting the flag on the Individual Information screen - it would reset to deceased if one of the fields associated with death was filled. Cathy Howard Cady wrote: Cathy, You were correct as to the cause of my problem (individual marked as deceased). Fi xing the problem was harder. The “View-Set Living” reset kept returning “fixed” but the Individual Information screen kept returning “Deceased” for several attempts. Deleting Medical Notes and Medical Note Sources was my final fix that was required to get him alive. Thanks for steering me to the solution. Howard Cady *From:* Cathy Pinner *Sent:* Saturday, November 4, 2017 6:55 PM *To:* Legacy User Group *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Potential GEDCOM Error Howard, You don't need LTools for this and I'd be very wary of using LTools beyond Legacy 7. For t his particular case, you just need to look at his Individual Information screen and see. For others you may want to check, you can use Legacy Detailed Search. Individual - Birth Date - after - <your choice of date> AND Individual - Living - equal to - NO Cathy Howard Cady wrote: Cathy, Thanks for the information that removing everything from death/burial/sources wouldn’t restore “deceased” to “living”. I will search for “deceased” and dig out Ltools and look when I have time – but not before this reply. It is also possible that I might have checked his deceased box at one time and then reversed that check. Howard *From:* Cathy Pinner *Sent:* Friday, Nov ember 3, 2017 6:26 PM *To:* Legacy User Group *Subject:* Re: [LegacyUG] Potential GEDCOM Error Have you checked that he's not been accidentally marked as deceased in your file? It's easy to do. Adding anything in death or burial field or adding a source to them will switch the Living indicator. Removing it doesn't switch the indicator back. Cathy Howard Cady wrote: I used Legacy 9 version 198 to prepare an GEDCOM (import to Ancestry version) of my wife's bloodline (only her relatives) with privacy (only names for living people). Everything was as expected except for her living brother where the exported file treated him as deceased. My wife and all living descendants were properly exported as names only. A deceased older sister was properly exported as deceased. Have others noticed this potential error? Howard Cady -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- LegacyUserGroup mailing list LegacyUserGroup@legacyusers.com To manage your subscription and unsubscribe http://legacyusers.com/mailman/listinfo/legacyusergroup_legacyusers.com Archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyusers.com/
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