Peter,
I've been doing some testing on this and you appear to be right.
I can't see it entered as a bug so I've entered it (I'm a beta tester)
and noted you as the reporter.
They're not options I've used for a long time. I don't make Gedcoms
often and lately just for DNA purposes so everyone except me in it is
deceased and I've mostly just edited out my details.
Cathy
Peter Astle via LegacyUserGroup wrote:
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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