See Legacy Manual page 285-86 on how Legacy does this easily. Loran in Indiana.
On Wed, 19 Dec 2001 12:37:40 +0100 =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Michel_Th=E9bault?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi ! > > I downloaded Gedliving and some other programs to privatise my > gedcom before > sending to some web cousin, but I ask myself why Legacy could not > use a tag > like "Living" for private datas, except that we could mark "Private" > people > who died hundred years ago. > > The problem with privacy softs is that they take a limit date for > privacy : > for example, Gedliving can suppress datas before 1900. > But in my family, for the people I do know well, there is no trouble > to send > datas for people until 1900. In other parts of my family, I am not > sure they > would like their gr-gr-father to be in a gedcom, so for them the > cutoff date > could be 1850. And in another part, there was a confused story of > 2nd > marriage that made people weep for a lost heritage they keep talking > about > sometimes when we tell them about genealogy... I don't want this > sort of > people for whom genealogy means looking for hazy heritage to pollute > my > gedcom. > > So, a cutoff date is not so good a way to choose which datas may be > published. > > Another soft can work with a list of predefined people. It does > recognize > them not with their names, but with their ID (I think it is the > RIN). > Useless for me : I like to have a clean RIN range, and I have Legacy > renumber the RINs when I think I may have suppressed several peoples > in a > gedcom I imported. With this method, I would be obliged to rebuild > my > private list each time. > > So, why not a "privacy" tag that would work exactly as the "living" > tag ? > Why not using the living tag itself ? Because you cannot turn it on > when a > person has got a death date... > > Michel Th�bault > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp
