Setting death dates and/or status

[TheTree]

Hi

Is there any way to find everyone born over 100 years ago with no death date and then set an approximate (bef xxxx) death date for them?

Or mark them dead in some other way

The myheritage consistency checker picked up a lot of things in my gedcom import and i would like to tidy these "undead" people easily if it is possible.

Thanks
Steve

[TheTree]

I managed to partly solve the issue by adding a new flag for deceased and use the GEDCPM Tag DEAT with a value of Y

https://www.reddit.com/r/Genealogy/comments/9zpfyo/deat_tag_in_gedcom/

The gedcom exports with this flag but myheritage does not use the Y value it seems

Still cant set death dates in reunion though

[theKiwi]

You can put a ? in the Death Date field. Reunion will accept that and it transfers by GEDCOM to different places.

In your particular case, MyHeritage interprets that as "Deceased" and so checks the radio button for "Deceased" for the person in their online tree.

Roger

[TheTree]

You can put a ? in the Death Date field. Reunion will accept that and it transfers by GEDCOM to different places.

In your particular case, MyHeritage interprets that as "Deceased" and so checks the radio button for "Deceased" for the person in their online tree.

Roger

Thanks Roger, It seems I have about 600 to go through, i was hoping I could automate it

Steve

[theKiwi]

If you can get them into a list as a result of a Find, you can enter the ? directly into the death date column in that list rather than having to edit each person's record individually.

You have to click in the field, and then move the mouse slightly to make that field available for editing, and just type in the ? and press Enter/Return.

So you can go down the list doing this pretty quickly.

Roger