How do you handle deceased people?
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Josiah Rocke
Aug 31, 2016, 11:25:35 PM8/31/16
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Trying to determine a best practice for handling deceased people. Do you delete them? Leave them in the household? Orphan them? Make notes in the widow/widower profile?
How does your church handle that in the database?
Mitch Phillips
Sep 1, 2016, 9:29:53 PM9/1/16
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I looked at the subject line and my first thought was, "We offer to do a funeral." Sorry - just had to say that.
We change people to a new status and leave them in the household. We have two different statuses - "Deceased - member" and "Deceased" to distinguish if they had been a member of just someone we had in the database. We use the date of death as the effective date of the new status. You might also want to make a note in the spouse's record to note the date of their husband/wife's death.
We change people to a new status and leave them in the household. We have two different statuses - "Deceased - member" and "Deceased" to distinguish if they had been a member of just someone we had in the database. We use the date of death as the effective date of the new status. You might also want to make a note in the spouse's record to note the date of their husband/wife's death.
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