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From: "Jim Winfrey" <>
Subject: Re: [GENBOX] Mass Executions
Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 10:28:14 -0400
References: <002901c31aeb$15540350$6401a8c0@micronxp>


Thanks Tom,

I should have said I do have your e-mail. I've done a lot of work on this
database since I imported it and have added a lot of stuff that is not in
Legacy. I was hoping for a solution that could be done within GB.

Jim

----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Morris" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2003 10:05 AM
Subject: RE: [GENBOX] Mass Executions


| 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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