Names with no birth or death data

[JoeS01]

Hello, I am making a GECOM file to put on Ancestry. I have a number of Persons who have no data , just a first name and surname.
What is the best way to prevent these persons from being included in my GEDCOM file?

[Bob White]

Leave those names in. Ancestry's bots are constantly looking for matches to your tree entries, then showing you the famous waving leaves. It may just end up finding more info for you. (My recommendation. One of the Find experts here can probably come up with a scheme that leaves such records out... creating a set that you can make a GEDCOM from.

[JoeS01]

Thanks Bob. My preference is to leave them out of my GEDCOM file at this stage

[JoeS01]

Found it! you put me on to it , Bob. Just use Advance Find and select persons with no birthdate AND no death date, and mark them.
If I have put down the name only for living people, they would appear in the GEDCOM file without marking them using the Advanced Find, there is no Privacy provision to block them, and living people’s names would appear on my Ancesrty tree when I imported the GEDCOM file