If you open up People at the top of the page and then look at the area where it says Index: XXXXX and to the left is a small house and next to that is three lines with a very tiny arrow. Click on that and a dropdown will allow you to list how you want them displayed ie, by birth, or death, or marriage. I have used FTM since the company that developed it in eastern Iowa put it on the market. I had to upgrade from FTM 11.0 after upgrading to Win 7 because I could not print a report. I still have my old FTM 11.0 on my harddrive so if I think I have a need to check something I can go back to it. Leon

Sorry that little arrow simply DISPLAYS the birth, marriage or death date it does not SORT by birth, marriage or death date. Indeed I have birth date displayed. HOWEVER the default sort order is still just surname, forename, in all previous versions the default sort order was surname, forename, birth date. Now I can sort by birth date but this sorts EVERYONE into birth order. So I get So FTM 2010 is still BUGGED, I have 217 William Bisset's all of them called Bisset, Willam (no middle names I've another 23 with middle names but I can find these easily enough). The only thing that distinguishes these William Bissets is their date of birth. However unlike ALL previous versions the sort order stops at forename, thus the list has all my William Bissets in random order. This means in order to find one I need to painfully scroll through each one trying to spot the right birth date. Similarly the "F2" lookup screen is only sorted by surname, forename whereas in ALL previous versions it was surname, forename, birth date. I've reported this bug numerous times on their website but have not even had an acknowledgement of receipt of the bug. It seems like Ancestry.com are too big to care about their paying customers. To date no-one has been able to advice a fix, or a work around short of what I currently do ie: manually trying to find the individuals. Its not a huge problem as it only affects those names where I have lots of them. However as I have over 1400 Bissets (doing a one name study) then when it comes to that name it often takes a good minute or so to find someone when it should be almost instantaneous. -- Alexander Bisset IT Administrator Aberdeen Harbour Board -----Original Message----- From: aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:aberdeen-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Leon O Kearns Sent: 11 March 2010 13:03 To: aberdeen@rootsweb.com Subject: [ABERDEEN] FTM 2010 If you open up People at the top of the page and then look at the area where it says Index: XXXXX and to the left is a small house and next to that is three lines with a very tiny arrow. Click on that and a dropdown will allow you to list how you want them displayed ie, by birth, or death, or marriage. I have used FTM since the company that developed it in eastern Iowa put it on the market. I had to upgrade from FTM 11.0 after upgrading to Win 7 because I could not print a report. I still have my old FTM 11.0 on my harddrive so if I think I have a need to check something I can go back to it. Leon ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to ABERDEEN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ______________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked by Dionach for all known viruses using MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.dionach.com ______________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked by Dionach for all known viruses using MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.dionach.com