If you go to the Tools icon, then the" Advanced set Living" a pop up will be there where you can choose the age eg: 100 yrs and everyone over that age will automatically will be set" living" to "no". Carol
G4MHJ HEWITT wrote:
Through ignorance, I have entered my data without a thought to using the Living Person indicator. I somehow thought that Legacy took care of it completely and it was automatic using the Option/Customise/Data Entry/ Presumed Dead settings. But without a birth or death date how could it!
So, I needed to find a way of resolving the issue. I basically used the Index View and customised the columns so that I added the Living indicator. I then added the Marriage: Date & Place column. I looked for "Yes" in the living column and a date in the Marriage date before 1911 and changed the indicator to "No" for each record found. This took care of married persons but not single persons. If I found that a living persons mother was born prior to 1860 then I made the assumption that the child must be deceased.
I still have many records to check and it occurred to me that Legacy could be more helpful.
Firstly, in the Index View it would be a nice feature if All columns could be sorted rather than just those available currently. At least I could then sort the living. My second observation was that there must be some logic that can deduce whether a person is living if the mother's age is known and Legacy ought to validate this on entry. I quite expect that there is already a simpler method of doing this editing and I would be grateful for any advice before I start editing the remaining 4000 records.
Bob
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