Merryl, You can Manually set the birth order in Family Tree Maker. What version are you using? Russ On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 4:08 PM, Merryl Wells via <[email protected]> wrote: > I had some trouble sending below last night and it appears not to have > arrived so am trying again. > From > Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. > E-Mail: [email protected] > GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Merryl Wells" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Sent: Thursday, April 28, 2016 1:45 AM > Subject: Getting twins & quads on FTM trees in order they were born > > > > Hi, I am finding it slightly annoying that I can't think of a way to > > present > > multiple births on the same day on Family Tree Maker in the correct order > > of > > birth, other than giving them the incorrect date of birth under Date and > > then quoting the right birth-date and order in the Place column. Has > > anyone > > else come across this problem and how have they resolved it. > > > > The quads were born 15 August 1817 and baptized two days later when the > > vicar performing the baptism resolved it by giving each another 'name', > > being the Latin word for 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th. They all died within a > > three month period when he retained his 'names' for their burial entries. > > The couple earlier had twins when no distinction was made as to which was > > born first in their baptism entry and they both lived. > > From > > Merryl Wells of Luton, Beds. > > E-Mail: [email protected] > > GOONS Mem. No. 1757 Reg. ONS: Bawtree; Gullick/ock, Moist/Moyst. > > > > _____________________________________________ > > RootsWeb lists - surnames, regions, software, etc: > http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes > in the subject and the body of the message > -- [email protected]