On Mon, 25 May 1998 08:06:35 +0100 (BST), you wrote: Re: The Following msg which I have left intact. 1- ask everyone not to submit living people 2- manually remove those who are 3- I don;t know how your program works but it should be able to "split database" on a key family member and "erase" that line.. then just re-introduce the GEDcom submitted, sans alive people....... Of course, the easiest way might be to start afresh, with what you had, introducing all GEDcoms excepting those which have caused controversey...et voila! back to (almost) normal ! Derek >All, > I have had a request to delete the birth dates of living persons from a >section of the CHASE Dbase. > To do this I would have to delete dates of birth for all living persons in >the database. This may include some that are obviously dead but have no date >of death recorded. Can I have the views of all those who have submitted >dbases,please. I do not yet know how this part of the Programme works but if >it takes away the Birth date of all those that do not have a Death date >entered then we could lose some useful data >Keith > >Keith Hume, >email khume@netcomuk.co.uk > CHASE-L Website at:- http://www.surnameweb.org/centers/c/chase/index.html > http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~khume/home.html >Kent,England >Researching:- HULME,DAWSON,(In Lancs.) > HUME,McKAY, (In New Brunswick & Nova Scotia > SHERMAN,SIMMONS,HATHAWAY AND CHASE,(In USA & Canada) > SHERRING & BLUNDEN (Hampshire,England) > FALL,(Ireland & Australia) > BUTCHER,PAYNE/PAINE,BURCKITT(Bedfordshire,England)