Explanation for i_isdead

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In the table Individuals, the field i_isdead can have 3 values
0 = alive, 1 = death, what mean the value -1.
I have people alive with -1.
For this reason I have errors in the list of persons alive(statistics).
Thank you for giving me an explanation.

[Greg Roach]

-1 means not known.

For example, if you have a person with no birth/death or other event, then you cannot know if he is alive or dead.

But later, you may add a child, who was born in 1700.  You know that he is dead, and can update is_dead.

This should get updated whenever we next access the person.  However, the statistics doesn't access the individual records, so they do not get updated.

This is a known problem with the current design.

[fa0850-fa0850]

Thank you, I will use to temporarily solve the advanced search where I look for names that contain a and e, i, o, u, y. Whenever I refill my GEDCOM file.
As all names have been seen and the base has changed -1 by 0 or 1.