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--- Begin Message ---This is my first message to the user group - so apologies if this query has been aired before. In my database I have a number of females who were living in the mid-late 1800's, and their living status is set to NO. In the process of exporting the family file via a Gedcom to view on a website, I used the privacy options within Legacy to suppress the details of living individuals as follows:- Suppress details for deceased spouses of living individuals, change name to deceased. and Suppress details for deceased children of living individuals, change name to deceased. After uploading the Gedcom to the website I reviewed the family file details that were displayed and I was surprised to see the following pattern. In most cases, the names and other details of females who were born in the 1800s and whose living status is NO would be displayed as normal. However, if the female had a child, but the relevant father details had not been entered, the mother appears as "Deceased" and her actual name and other details are suppressed. The name and details of her "illegitimate" child are not suppressed however and appear in full. It looks rather odd to have an individual's details suppressed and their name replaced by "deceased" when they died well before 1900. It appears that Legacy has made this decision for me - as the mothers concerned are not the spouses of a living individual as under the suppressing option I selected above. I can understand the need to protect the privacy of people where apparent and actual illegitimacy is concerned, but if that is the intention/design of Legacy, should the child's name and details be suppressed too? I realise as a relatively new user of Legacy I may have misunderstood, or overlooked a setting option or a work around for this, so I'd be grateful for views/advice. I was considering entering some details for the "unknown" fathers, perhaps that would solve the issue, but I don't think entering people as name "unknown" is good practice - is it?? Thanks Peter
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