recently deceased people

[Lynn McLaughlin]

Would it be easy to add something to TMG to GEDCOM to treat recently deceased people (deceased within a configurable number of years) the same as living people when Exclude Living People or Living People Private are concerned?

I'd rather not have to adjust the TMG Living flag to force this. 

I looked at filters on the People and Private T2G pages, and I think I could do what I want with something like in the screenshot below. Would that be the best way to go without a specific "dead how long" option? From my reading of the help, it sounds like if I have the Exclude Living People flag set, then it will exclude all people with living =Y or ? but also those with living =N but who meet my Recently Deceased criterion. But sometimes I don't want to exclude any living people and would not have Exclude Living People set. In that case, it sounds like it would include living people and dead people who died more than 10 years ago, but leave out those who died in the last 10 years, which wouldn't be what I want. I'm not sure how to have a filter that only applies when the Exclude Living People is checked.

BTW, there is a minor typo on the help page for filters, where it says At present, the only filter is in the People section. Actually, there is also one in the Private section.

Thanks,

Lynn

[John Cardinal]

Lynn,

 

If you want to exclude living, but also exclude some recently deceased, you can probably implement a Person Filter to do that. When writing a filter, you select the people you want, so your filter would be something like this:

 

Person Filter: All must pass (AND)

                Not Living

                At least one must pass (OR)

                                Event Count: No Death Events

                                                Filter: All must pass (AND)

                                                                Tag Type: Death

                                                                                Tag Filter Type: selected

                                                                                Selected Types: Death

                                                Operator: equal-to

                                                Comparand: 0

                                Primary Death Not Recent

                                                Filter: All must pass (AND)

                                                                Date: Tag Date Before 1 jan 2020

                                                                                Operator: before

                                                                                Date1: 1 Jan 2020

                                                                Tag Type: Death Event

                                                                                Tag Filter Type: selected

                                                                                Selected Types: Death

 

The filter above selects people who are (A) not living and (B) meet one of these conditions: (C) no death event or (D) primary death is not recent.

 

That logic is not fool-proof. For example, you may have people who did not die recently, and you know where they died, but not when. If those people have an undated death event, I don’t think they will be selected because the death event won’t pass the “not recent” part of the filter.

 

Also, please note that T2G will still treat the people who are recently deceased, but not included, as deceased. So, for example, if they are mentioned in an event shared with a person that is included, their name will appear. In other words, the filters in the people section that determine where names are shown is not affected by the filter above.

 

And… Living People Private won’t apply to recently deceased people.

 

John Cardinal

 

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