It's for this reason I set any new person entered marked deceased. Go under Options - Customize - Data Defaults - Living Indicator Default set to NO. It is easier to remember to check the box on the individual screen to living than to remember it for deceased. I also make sure in Customize that under Data Format I check "Highlight Living Individuals" and set it to green so I see it.
As for your question - there is no easy way to clean up your file marking the living as deceased when there are no dates. You can try going under Search - Advanced Set Living and let Legacy determine if they are deceased. But without dates it's not very successful. The "simplest" way to get all the deceased marked correctly is to Go under Search - Find - Detailed Search set the conditions to Individual - living - equal to - YES. Then create a list of all the living in your records. I then went through the list and had to determine by the dates of relatives to them if they were deceased or living. Good Luck it's a big project. Renee Zamora www.harrisena.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Coddgenealogy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 6:08 PM Subject: RE: [LegacyUG] Finding "dead" Livings with Access > Right. I misspoke. These are people with no dates at all. Sometimes > they are married to people with no dates, and it may not be until their > great-grandchildren that a date shows up. They are hard to find. > Jonathan > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Steve > Hayes > Sent: Sunday, January 22, 2006 9:26 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Finding "dead" Livings with Access > > > On 22 Jan 2006 at 9:13, Coddgenealogy wrote: > > > Folks, > > By default Legacy codes all new additions as living if they don't > > have a death date. An absent-minded genealogist can enter a lot of > > people from bygone centuries before they wake up and remember to click > > > "no" on Living. > > Can anyone help me with the microsoft query syntax to find "livings" > > > that have spouses or children born before 1900, or (is this possible?) > > > anyone in their descendant line born before 1900? > > Somewhere there is an option to set evertone over a certain age as not > living. Can't remember where it is, but it's there if you look for it. > -- > Steve Hayes > E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Web: http://www.geocities.com/hayesstw/stevesig.htm > Phone: 083-342-3563 or 012-333-6727 > > > Legacy User Group 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 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 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
