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Remove or hide living people in a GEDCOM file
Drop the .ged, open “Fix” and choose whether living people are hidden or removed. Then save the tree again and share it safely.
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Who counts as living
Anyone without a death or burial who was born less than 110 years ago. When a person has no dates at all, their age is judged from relatives — a parent’s or child’s birth year — so a great-grandmother without dates is not taken for a living person.
Hide or remove
Hiding keeps the person in the tree as “Living”, with their sex and family links but no dates, places, notes, sources, photos or contact details, so the tree still connects. Removing takes them out completely, along with families that are left empty.
Questions
- Is the original changed?
- No. The file on your computer stays as it is; the changed tree is saved as a new file.
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