Frequently Asked Question

If a person is said to have died in reports, this must be because there is a death event in their list of events and attributes. To solve the problem, open the Property Dialog for the person in question, select the Facts tab, locate the death event and delete it.

That still leaves the question of how the death event got there in the first place. There is some reason to believe that some other genealogy program is creating spurious death events for individuals who have not died. If you imported your data from another program, that may be the explanation. Another possible explanation is that a death date was entered for someone by mistake, in the Main tab of the Property dialog, and then cleared again. When the death date was entered, a death event was automatically created to ‘house’ the death date. When the death date was cleared, the date was removed, but the death event itself was not deleted.