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Gramps 5.1 Wiki Manual - Probably Alive

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== How does Gramps determine if someone is alive? ==
 
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A simple way to tell if someone is alive is to see if they have a death event, or a death-related event (such as a burial). However, it is probably true that many people in your database don't have such events, as you may not know any details of their death. If you know someone is dead, it might be a good idea to create a death event. You can also go back and add useful details (such as date and place of death) once that is known. Adding events for people known dead, even if they contain no exact details, is somewhat useful. However, Gramps can also add events with estimated dates (or not) for you (described below).
Today's date is treated specially in the instances of events with no dates, and checking alive status in the past. For example, if a person has a death event with no date, then we know that the person is dead as of today, and always in the future. However, for those functions for which you can check to see if a person was alive on a date in the past, we cannot say if they were alive or dead on that date. So, if you have a death event with no date, and check to see if they were alive just yesterday, Gramps will be unable to determine the alive/dead status.
 
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* [[Gramps_5.1_Wiki_Manual_-_Filters#People_probably_alive|People probably alive filter]]
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