Be good to standardise, but I don't see why a restriction of 9 is necessary or sufficient (you could have more than nine birth-dates for an individual from different sources, for example -- 8 censuses, a marriage and a baptism) -- why not just use numbers and order lowest to highest? That way somebody could choose to number 100, 200, 300 etc. and slip an entry in between 100 and 200 without needing to re-number anything. ColeValleyGirl www.colevalleygirl.co.uk Moderator, genealogy.stackexchange.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Beryl and Mike Tate Sent: 20 March 2014 17:55 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [FHU] Ordering of events by date This capability has been requested before in the FHUG Forums, and I thought there was Wish List entry, but cannot find one. May I suggest that the Descriptor values should be standardised on the ordinal numbers 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, ..., 9th. (Nine should be enough.) Then not only could a Plugin order the Facts in the Properties Box appropriately, but Fact Queries, and Record Window Columns could also filter and order the Facts according to the Descriptor. Eventually, FH might take over the role from the Plugin. What say you all? Regards, Mike Tate