I certainly don't understand your point. This really has nothing to do with your mother's privacy. Those not actually known dead would need to be treated as alive for reporting purposes, and those known to be dead would be handled as you normally do.
The point is that it would be HIGHLY convenient to record your current state of knowledge about a particular person. It would be good as a research tool. For example, tag all folks who have an "unknown" status so you could search the SSDI, and then track down death certificates, etc for those who had passed. Similarly, you could work through the family, and perhaps find some of these "unknown" folks, and perhaps interview them and learn something more about the family. What objection do you have to more accurately recording the information availble to us? -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, December 28, 2004 17:39 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] When will we get yes/no/unknown for living? I appreciate your point of view. However, I have a mother still alive. She was born in Jan 1912. What about the respect of her privacy? In Utah, it is my understanding they have a 100 year waiting period. I would suggest that there comes a time to fish or cut bait. I would suggest cutting bait. thank you. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Robert Carneal" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 4:38 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] When will we get yes/no/unknown for living? > No, not really. You are alive or you are dead, and that is pretty much it. > The question though, is what if the genealogist does not know if the > person > is alive or dead for sure? I have several people born in the 1910s and > 1920s > that I don't know yet if they died. They -could- be alive. > > The argument is having a unknown indicator for living will allow the user > to > give a label to everyone to a more degree of certainty. The user either > knows you are dead, or you are alive, or the user does not know yet. > Hence, > the option of "Unknown" for living was suggested. > > Robert > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 5:27 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] When will we get yes/no/unknown for living? > > ummm what other options are there besides living/dead? Is there an > inbetween I don't know about? > > >> June, >> >> There really is no way to deal with the Living indicator field, since >> it must be set to either Yes or No, neither of which is correct in >> many cases. The suggestions that others have made are simply different >> ways to indicate that it is not known whether someone is living, but >> that does not prevent the Living indicator from being wrong. >> >> Bob >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of June >> McDonald >> Sent: Monday, December 27, 2004 14:49 >> To: [email protected] >> Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] When will we get yes/no/unknown for living? >> >> >> I agree. I asked for this some years ago when I first started using >> Legacy 2?, 3? and was told it would be looked at, and that was the end >> of that. I have a number of people who I don't know if they are alive or >> not and still wonder how others deal with it. >> June >> Canberra, the nation's capital >> >> >> Porter wrote: >> >> >yes/no doesn't cut it! "unknown" would be most helpful............ We > have >> m/f/? for sex. Makes good sense to have living choices! >> > >> > >> >A >> > >> >Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: >> >http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp >> > >> >To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: >> >http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ >> > >> >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 find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ >> >> 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 find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: >> http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ >> >> 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 find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > 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 find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > 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 find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ 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 find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
