Hi, I am going to buy a new family tree program and have my choice narrowed down to two. (Family Origins or Legacy) I have a question about the program re: privacy of living individuals. If I have living individuals in my database, and were to publish a webpage using the program, how will the information of the "living" individuals be displayed, e.g. dates, etc. Will they be displayed or would I have to omit that information? Also, if a date field is left empty, does the program estimate a date and fill it in automatically? I have seen some programs that do this. Thanks for any feedback. Susan Gowen http://clix.to/susan

>>I have a question about the program re: privacy of living individuals. If I have living individuals in my database, and were to publish a webpage using the program, how will the information of the "living" individuals be displayed, e.g. dates, etc. Will they be displayed or would I have to omit that information? FO optional book at p. 194 states you can privatize for the living. No death or burial date or less than 120 years old is treated as possibly living. Only the name without any other data will be listed. Privitizing is optional. If you are fairly sure of demise, any death fact even if you do not know the date or place will force treatment as a deceased person. I.E., you know great uncle John is dead some 20 years or died in the War, but you just do not know the date and place. >>Also, if a date field is left empty, does the program estimate a date and fill it in automatically? I have seen some programs that do this. Not generally, you may however add your own estimate or range. I generally use something like < est 1890s > or < 1870s/80s >, this is treated as textual malerial because of the addition of non numeric data. Program estimates I have seen in FTM are so broad as to be meaningless in my opinion. I generally use the rule of thumb convention that a child is 25 years younger than the father. As crude as that seems, when data are later acquired, it proves to be remarkably close. A 3rd possible program choice is the new RootsMagic by the Family Origins sogtware author due out this January. Pre Febrauary orders get a bargain price. Many here are sufficiently confident to have ordered it sight unseen. beta version review http://www.rootsforum.com/archives/news0251.htm#RootsMagic 23 Dec 2002 By Dick Eastman release expected Jan 2003 Paul Studly Cleveland/Chesterland, OH paulstudly@studly.net -----Original Message----- From: Susan Gowen [mailto:sgowen@ns.sympatico.ca] Sent: Sunday, January 05, 2003 12:05 PM To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [FO] Have questions before buying software Hi, I am going to buy a new family tree program and have my choice narrowed down to two. (Family Origins or Legacy) I have a question about the program re: privacy of living individuals. If I have living individuals in my database, and were to publish a webpage using the program, how will the information of the "living" individuals be displayed, e.g. dates, etc. Will they be displayed or would I have to omit that information? Also, if a date field is left empty, does the program estimate a date and fill it in automatically? I have seen some programs that do this. Thanks for any feedback. Susan Gowen http://clix.to/susan ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== Family Origins GenForum - http://genforum.genealogy.com/fo/ Tech Support Knowledge Base http://www.familyorigins.com/support/