'Deceased indicator' in Entities table

[alkark1]

Have started using Ancestris, just finding my way around.

1. Is there any way to view in the entities table if a person is living or dead?
2. Is there any indicator or event in the gedcom to denote whether I have met that person?

Thank you.

[mother10]

Welcome to Ancestris!

To answer your questions:

1: You can see that from the Death column, if there is a date in there, the person is dead.
2: There is no official GEDCOM tag, to denote that. (GEDCOM is in capitals, officially)

Suggestion:
Look in the extensive English Help file https://docs.ancestris.org/books/user-guide for the answer on a lot of questions.

In there is an explanation too, about how to add columns to the entities table and how to sort them.

Have fun with Ancestris.
Mother10

[alkark1]

Thank you for your response.

Is there any workaround for the deceased indicator? e.g. If a death event is added, some symbol to be visible?
This is possible in MyHeritage.

There are multiple ancestors whose death date is not known.

Thanks in advance.

[Zurga]

This is possible in MyHeritage.

As far as I know, we are not MyHeritage.
We don't have their money power nor their workforce.

Add a DEATH tag with no date.
Then you can add some markers in the dynamic tree to test the presence of DEATH tag
https://docs.ancestris.org/books/user-guide/page/blueprints#bkmrk-balise-%3Cmark%3E

For me, if the birth date is obviously older than the expected lifespan, I assume the individual is dead.
No need for a specific indicator.

Zurga

[Mikael]

This is what I suggest, as it is what I've decided to do for those of my ancestors I can't find a death date for (records were sketchy back in the 11th century).

I find all the children that they are supposed to be the parent of, or any other record like marriage, occupation, knighthood, and so on. Which ever is the latest date I set as the death date and select Period after. As they must have been alive at that date and died after that date.