From roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Mon May 1 17:31:38 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k41NVcjb031304; Mon, 1 May 2006 17:31:38 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l.rootsweb.com [66.43.16.22]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k41NVZCX030016 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 17:31:35 -0600 Received: from roots-l.rootsweb.com (roots-l [127.0.0.1]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id k41KwDFI031543 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 16:58:13 -0400 Received: (from roots-in@localhost) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.8/Submit) id k41KwDYG031542 for roots-approved@rootsweb.com; Mon, 1 May 2006 16:58:13 -0400 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.27.41]) by roots-l.rootsweb.com (8.12.10/8.12.10) with SMTP id k41JxOFI031372 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 15:59:24 -0400 Received: (from slist@localhost) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id k41MWa3v031649 for roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com; Mon, 1 May 2006 16:32:36 -0600 X-Envelope-From: JYoung6180@aol.com Mon May 1 16:32:36 2006 Received: from mail.rootsweb.com (mail.rootsweb.com [192.168.65.34]) by admin.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id k41MWajb031638 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 16:32:36 -0600 Received: from imo-d20.mx.aol.com (imo-d20.mx.aol.com [205.188.139.136]) by mail.rootsweb.com (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k41MWYP3007692 for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 16:32:35 -0600 Received: from JYoung6180@aol.com by imo-d20.mx.aol.com (mail_out_v38_r7.5.) id e.1ee.4e872168 (2612) for ; Mon, 1 May 2006 18:32:02 -0400 (EDT) From: JYoung6180@aol.com Message-ID: <1ee.4e872168.3187e662@aol.com> Date: Mon, 1 May 2006 18:32:02 EDT To: ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5026 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.52 on 192.168.65.34 Sender: roots-in@roots-l.rootsweb.com Subject: [ROOTS-L] Re: To Submit or Not Submit, that is the question. You are aware I am sure of leaving living people out of the gedcoms you submit or you can simply submit it with the living if you choose WorldConnect and let their filters sort out the living. ---- Margaret's advice is excellent--I just have one minor quibble. When submitting a GEDCOM to WorldConnect, it is best NOT to try to privatize the living person data prior to submitting for two very good reasons: 1) if you remove too much data before uploading your GEDCOM this can actually have the reverse effect of what you intended because WorldConnect's living filters use the birth, marriage, and death info in the file to decide whose data needs to be privatized and whose does not. If you remove some of the tools the living filters need to make those decisions you can actually end up with data for some living individuals being shown by accident or too much data being removed as "living" when that isn't the case. Let the superior filters at WorldConnect do the job for you--don't try to pre-clean the GEDCOM. I once saw a WorldConnect file where someone pre-cleaned it and ancestors from the 1500s were showing up as "living" all because there wasn't enough data (dates) for the living filters to know these people were long deceased. 2) should you ever find yourself in the position of losing data on your computer and needing to retrieve the GEDCOM--if you pre-cleaned the living data before submitting the file to WorldConnect, it isn't going to be there as a backup for you when you retrieve the GEDCOM. If you submit your entire family tree in the GEDCOM and let WorldConnect's living filters clean the file for you--then if you need to retrieve the GEDCOM later on to replace lost data, just use your original user code and password and you can retrieve your complete file just as you uploaded it originally. Joan