Terry Pinnell wrote: > I'm just resuming work in FTM 2006 after a break of a couple of years, > so I'm a bit rusty. > > I have a list of 8 children. One birth date I've entered exactly: > 03 Jan 1914 > > 3 others are only within a Quarter: > Bet. Apr - Jun 1907 (the oldest) > Bet. Jul - Sep 1911 > Bet. Jan - Mar 1919 (the youngest) > > I don't yet have dates for the other 4 intermediate ones, so for the > time being I've entered: > Bet. Jul 1907 - Dec 1918 > > But after sorting by date,("Arrange the children on this Family View > in order of birth (oldest first)?"), they were displayed incorrectly > like this: > > Bet. Jul 1907 - Dec 1918 > Bet. Jul 1907 - Dec 1918 > Bet. Jul 1907 - Dec 1918 > Bet. Jul 1907 - Dec 1918 > Bet. Apr - Jun 1907 <------ OLDEST > Bet. Jul - Sep 1911 > 03 Jan 1914 > Bet. Jan - Mar 1919 > > Why isn't the oldest shown at the top please? If it's a bug, seems to > have been around for a couple of years... > > -- > Terry, East Grinstead, UK Hi Terry This is not a new problem - if you trawl the archives here, you will find that it has been discussed before. I doubt the problem is confined to FTM. Trying to sort date fields with abt., bef., aft., and all the variations is quite difficult to arrange. Dates - ie, full dates, d.m.y or m.d.y - are normally converted to an integer, and sorted that way. But add in the generalisations mentioned above, and creating an integer is difficult, if not impossible. The workaround is to figure out the correct order, and enter some spurious *full* dates that run in that order. Sort the kids, then go back and alter the real dates to the ranges you have. Paul

Paul Blair wrote: >[..] I doubt the problem is confined to FTM. >Trying to sort date fields with abt., bef., aft., and all the variations >is quite difficult to arrange. [...] >The workaround is to figure out the correct order, and enter some >spurious *full* dates that run in that order. Sort the kids, then go >back and alter the real dates to the ranges you have. Legacy allows sorting of siblings birth-dates, and then individual moving up or down the list. Does not FTM?