Deceased: Local Status Active vs Inactive

The local status is based on the member status captured at the time of death.

Deceased; Local Status Inactive:

One member can be inactive at the time of the merger due to having died before the date of the merger.
In other records, where a member is deceased with a local status inactive, the member was inactive at the time of death due to a demit, NPD, or another reason.
This might occur when a member dies before a merger and is inactive when the merger occurs; another case would be when the member is inactive (Suspended, Demitted, Expelled, etc.) at the time of death, whether there is a merger or not.

Deceased; Local Status Active:

A member in good/active status at the time of the merger and/or the date of death will have a local active status when they are deceased.
The system preserves the last status of the member in each local. If they are plural members, they could be demitted inactive in one or more lodges and active in another one or more lodges. The members themselves are deceased, but we preserve whether they were inactive at the time of death in the current list of all their past memberships.