Showing Dead

[John Williams]

Hi All,
Is there some way of showing a peson is dead if you don't have a death date?
Instance:- I have a person who is showing their age as 115.
I have their birth, but no other info.
TIA.
Jeksa

[SGilbert]

I just type in the word Died in the death date. It will ask; just click 'save custom date'

[theKiwi]

You can put a Y in the death date field to indicate that the person is deceased and you don't know the date.

Roger

[Blaise A. Darveaux]

I would put nothing in the date field if you don't have, at least marginally, a verifiable source for what you believe to be true. People do live to be 115 and beyond.

If it is just your assumption that the person is dead, put that, and the reason for that assumption, in the notes field. If your reason is something like "Aunt Edna, as a young girl attended his funeral and she has communicated this to me.", this make it clear to the reader why you believe this person is dead and if that communication from Aunt Edna is written in a letter, text, email, Facebook post, or what ever, make it a source and cite your Note with the citation number.

[debrigard]

If I put either a "Y," or "Died" in the date field to indicate someone is deceased, will this information be preserved when I convert the family file to GEDCOM ?? What about the "deceased"flag: does that transfer (via Gedcom) as a deceased notation? Is there an automatic way to have anyone born more than 110 years ago, with no death date, designated as "deseaced" Could the latter feature, if it does not exist now, be included in the next software update?

[bmohr]

If I put either a "Y," or "Died" in the date field to indicate someone is deceased, will this information be preserved when I convert the family file to GEDCOM ?? What about the "deceased"flag: does that transfer (via Gedcom) as a deceased notation? Is there an automatic way to have anyone born more than 110 years ago, with no death date, designated as "deseaced" Could the latter feature, if it does not exist now, be included in the next software update?

Reunion doesn't really do much (or any?) validity-checking when it exports a GEDCOM, so whatever you put in the date field will end up in your exported GEDCOM file. That being said, the "GEDCOM-approved" way to show that someone is known to be dead without a date is the single letter "Y" (so the line in the GEDCOM file would be something like "1 DEAT Y"). The problem is that Reunion doesn't recognize this convention and treats the "Y" as a date, so it gets exported as two lines:

1 DEAT
2 DATE Y

...which is not a valid GEDCOM construct.

Flags do get exported in a GEDCOM, but using custom tags that you can't count on being understood by any other software.