* Clean Living People plugin question

[BillH]

Jane,

Would it be possible to modify the Clean Living People plugin to have an option or options to remove all nicknames, prefixes, suffixes, titles, alternate names, and any other name related fields for living individuals? For living individuals I would like to have just the name "Living" and no other name related fields.

Thanks!

[davidm_uk]

As a long time user of Res Privata I would like an option to keep the living individuals Name and Year of birth and marriage (if applicable), and remove everything else including all other facts, citations, sources*, and notes (all of them).
*not sure about what to do with a source for a living person that is also cited for a non living person (eg. my birth source might also be cited in my parents records). Probably safest to remove it.

I'm sure that many others will have their own preferences, so maybe almost impossible to cover all permutations, but like BillH I would like to see a much simpler approach to obtaining an export Gedcom, as I like to update my Ancestry tree quite frequently and using permutations of "tools" is time consuming and, more importantly, prone to operator error.

I also echo Bills comments in the other thread re thanking Mike and Jane for all of the work that they do in supporting this Forum and creating all these great plugins. A huge THANK YOU

[Jane]

I will try and have a look at this, but work is pretty hectic at the moment.

[BillH]

Hi Jane,

Thanks for looking into this when you have a chance.

Another item has come up that is probably a bigger problem. Individual/Family <whole record> Source Citations and Source Citations on Name fields are causing a problem for living people. I'm not sure if there are others as well. For me the associated source name often has the names of the individual or individuals in it so it defeats the purpose of changing the name to "Living". Could the plugin be modified to have an option to remove all citations for living people when you get a chance?

See this post, creating a file for Ancestry with no facts for living individuals (14691), for more information on the issue.

Thanks!

[davidm_uk]

Jane,
Mike suggested that I should post this here (ref ): creating a file for Ancestry with no facts for living individuals (14691)

Not sure if it's best here or in a separate post, but for any new version of Jane's Clean Living People plugin can I add my request for an option(s) to be able to retain individual primary full name, and year of birth and marriage, but remove everything else for living people:
subsidiary NAME fields such as NICKname, etc, or Alternate Name fields, or Aliases or Titles (I think that Sex could be left, it's usually implied by the name anyway, I don't know about Custom ID having never used it)
source records cited for living people even if they are also cited for non living people
all facts except birth and marriage (just keeping the year for those)
all notes associated with individuals, families (see below), citations, sources

If either parent of a child/children is living then their children should be cleaned as if living (even if they had died - except that a death year could be shown if that's not too complex.
If one person from a couple is living then both individuals should be treated as living except that the marriage year and death year should be shown for the deceased individual.

[tatewise]

I am planning to publish my Clean Living Persons Plugin in the Plugin Store next week to supercede Jane's Clean Living People Plugin. I think that will satisfy everyone.

[BillH]

Thanks so much!

[tatewise]

The new Clean Living Persons Plugin Version 1.3 Date 16 Mar 2017 has now been published in the Plugin Store to supersede Jane's Clean Living People Plugin Version 1.2.3 Date 25 Mar 2014.

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