After you have sorted your children (and the Data Errors Report) can find all instances of children out of birth order), you can turn the blended view back on again. Depending on how you have arranged your spouses and preferred spouse (where there is multiple marriages), the children in the blended view (remember it is a view), may not appear sorted where in fact they are and will reproduce correctly in charts and reports. John D -----Original Message----- From: ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:ftm-tech-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Mary Ellis Sent: Friday, October 21, 2011 12:56 AM To: ftm-tech@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FTM-TECH] 2012 Not able to sort Children On 10/20/2011 12:51 AM, John Donaldson wrote: > Turn off the blended view then the sort children should work > > Compacting the file could improve its speed > > > > John Donaldson > Thanks that worked. Mary