Gramps 5.1.4 on Windows Vista. I have a known Dead person in my database, when I export via GEDCOM and upload GEDCOM to Family History Websites this person is shown living. I have also imported same GEDCOM to other family history softwares with person still shown as living. Person born in 1899 died 1992. I have longest age set to 120 years. I have also deleted person and created person again with same result. Can anyone help, without starting a brand new database.
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Do both Birth and Death events have the Role: Primary?
Does either event date have a modifier; about, before, after, etc?
Both Birth and Death are set as primary, Birth has exact date, Death has about date. I have a large number of people who are entered the same who are showing as Dead. When I created this database I entered each Person, Event and Source manually, as this is first GRAMPS database I created.
In Gramps, ‘about’, ‘before’ and ‘after’ have specific meanings when applied to a date entry. The range is set in Preferences on the Dates tab. The default is 50 years.
In this case, with a death event of ‘about 1992’ Gramps calculates ages as if the person died anytime between 1942 and 2042. In this case, the person may still be alive.
Personally, I have set my limits to 5 years for ‘about’ and 10 years for ‘before’ and ‘after’.
These year ranges will also apply to filters (which I assume is why the ranges are defaulted to a large time span). Using any of these date modifiers in a filter argument will use the limits set in Dates. If you set a filter to display all deaths in 1950, with a range of 50 years, the person with ‘about 1992’ will also return as true for the filter. Likewise, a filter to display all deaths ‘before 1950’ would only find deaths that would be true down to 1900. Someone who died in 1800 would not show up in the list. A search of ‘between 1 to 1950’ would be a better filter.
Regardless of the limits you have set in Preferences, when setting up filters based upon dates, special care needs to be taken.
Note: these limits do not apply to date entries when setting up your Places database hierarchy.
Did you check that the DEAT tag is present in the GEDCOM export?
Thank you, I changed about date to 2 years and performed a check and clean, which has worked. I exported a GEDCOM and opened in other family history software and person of focus is now shown as dead, also I imported GEDCOM to family history sites and person is shown as dead. Thanks again for your advice.
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