Exclude Living in Gedcom

[wvlilabner 0]

I am wanting to make a gedcom file and exclude the living people. I have selected suppress living and also unchecked the living tag and they still show up. How can I do this.

[jim.orrell 0]

I think Suppress living details does not exclude the living, just their details. My method for this is to:

- ensure you have your flags set correctly for the Living Flag.

- run a filter to exclude living on project explorer

- delete all from Focus group

- R mouse, copy all copy to Focus group

- run GEDCOM export using the current focus group.

 

As long as your dates are set correctly, many upload sites will exclude the living for you, but some like GRU are too draconian for me (120 years), so I use the above method instead

 

Re above method, you can also set flags for others you don't want in your output.

 

There should be an easier way, if anyone knows please let me know!

[Terry Reigel 0]

Jim,

 

I think that using a Flag as you describe is the only way to totally exclude living people. But you don't need to use the Focus Group. Once you have the filter set up in the Project Explorer as you describe, you can select everyone in the Project Explorer and use "Selected people in the Project Explorer" to control who is exported. You select everyone in the PE using the standard Windows technique for selecting from a list -- select the first person on the list, scroll to the bottom of the list, and hold shift while selecting the last one.