Any information you add is, by default, private to you. If you add an event to a
map pin, you will be able to see the pin and the associated information but
no-one else will - unless you make the event 'public'. However, even then, you
cannot make an event public if it breaks our "120 Year Rule", which states:
An event can only be made public if it is associated with a deceased person, or
if the event took place more than 120 years ago. A person is considered deceased
if there is a death event associated with them or if the 'Deceased' tick box is
ticked in that person's record.

When you upload a GEDCOM file, you can ask that all events are made public by
default - saving you lots of time manually changing every record. However, this
process is still constrained by the 120 Year Rule. So nothing that can be
considered to be associated with a living individual can be made public.

- The Ancestral Atlas Team

--- In ancestral_atlas@yahoogroups.com, "mhbowes11" <mhbowes11@...> wrote:
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> When I upload my gedcom, what will it do with records for living individuals.
How does it determine which individuals are living? Does it assume that all
those born after a certain date could still be living? Or does my genealogy
program have to have a feature marking all of the deceased as no longer living?
>