Frequently Asked Question

If there are only a small number of records involved, you can set flags on multiple records at the same time by selecting them all (e.g. in the Records Window, or the Diagram Window) and clicking on ‘Record Flags’ on the Edit menu. When you tick on ‘Living’ the flag will be set on all the selected Individuals.

If you have a large file you may want to use a query to locate people who either are, or may be, living. There is a query called ‘Flag Living’ in the Query Store of the Family Historian User Group website (http://www.fhug.org.uk). If you download this file to your desktop and double-click on it, it will be installed as a custom query. You can then run it. It takes 2 dates as parameters which can be left as the defaults. Then, when viewing the results in the Query Window, click on the Query Menu button at the right-hand end of the Query toolbar, and click on “Set Flag on Result Set Records”. Choose ‘Living’ as the flag and press OK. This will set the Living flag on all records returned by the query. You should check the results as the query method is of course by no means infallible.