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From: "Tom Morris" <>
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Mass Executions
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:05:46 -0400
In-Reply-To: <015401c31adc$bde9f6a0$897ba8c0@floyd>


If you have the option to re-import, check the archives for
a message from me back in March titled "Legacy GEDCOM
Import Fixups" which describes workarounds for this and
a few other problems.

Tom

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jim Winfrey [mailto:]
> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 8:23 AM
> To:
> Subject: [GENBOX] Mass Executions
>
> My database was imported from Legacy. Legacy sets a living
> flag of Y or N internally. When these flags import into GB,
> folks with a flag value of N get a Death event added. Many
> times the death event will have no information. The problem
> is that every one of the people who have the Death event show
> up in the Potential Problems report. This is in the form of
> "has events occurring after person's death". I guess there
> are two questions - first, do we need the Death event as a
> flag. Does it influence reports, etc? Second, if we don't
> need them is there any way to do a mass deletion of the empty
> Death events?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim
>


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