I noticed that sometimes the death comes before the birth in order - seems to largely happen when someone died before they were born! Pretty good way to get you to take a good look at it, LOL! PAF always asked if that was really what you really meant when you tried to add dates that made no sense, like the marriage year for the birth date. Rootsmagic just takes them and never says boo. Dora -----Original Message----- From: Jon Czarowitz via Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 6:32 PM To: [email protected] ; rootsmagic-users Subject: Re: [RMagic] Sort Dates in exported GEDCOM Sort Date is used to do a sort of proper order of events thus not showing the burial before birth or a birth after the parents died. PAF had that and I'm sure that is where it started. Only way around that would be to import the GEDCOM into a new database and replace each estimated date with one not showing abt,est, or a year without day and month. This means correcting the database 1 fact at a time. For importing purposes the fact order is necessary for a program to be readable. I used the "Sort Date" all time to put Birth, Death and Burial in proper order Jon On Tue, Jan 13, 2015 at 2:21 PM, Arthur & Pauline Kennedy via < [email protected]> wrote: > I'm using RM 6.3.1.4, and have discovered an issue with not being able > to exclude sort dates from an exported .ged file. > > Sort dates are typically found in a pair with an approximate date for an > event, or else on their own where no date is known: > > 2 DATE ABT 1823 > 2 _SDATE 1 JUL 1823 > > I gather that the underscore indicates that this is a RM-specific tag. > > One program I tried to import this file to seems to simply ignore the > sort date, but in another one the existence of the sort date appears to > cause all kinds of problems with any event address following, such as > not including it at all, or mapping it to the wrong field. > > I appreciate that there may be issues to raise with the other program, > but there is a RM issue too: if I try to get round this by excluding > RM-specific data from the GEDCOM export, this _SDATE tag is still > created. Other RM tags such as _COLOR are excluded, but the sort date > remains. > > Have I missed some setting? > > Thanks for any help, > > Arthur > > > > =================================== > RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS > WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: > http://blog.rootsmagic.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 > -- -- *Jon P Czarowitz*, NHC, GF, GGF, IGC Hempel Genealogist since 1986 Retired International Genealogist for http://www.clancunninghamintl.org RootsMagic 7 http://www.rootsmagic.com CUNNINGHAMS TOGETHER - CUNNINGHAMS WORLDWIDE! =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.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 --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. http://www.avast.com

RM gives you an error message in the form of the Yellow Triangle which when your pointer hovers over it will tell you the problem. Good Hunting, Love, Lou Louis E. Love, O.D. ________________________________ From: Dora Smith via <[email protected]> To: Jon Czarowitz <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [RMagic] Sort Dates in exported GEDCOM I noticed that sometimes the death comes before the birth in order - seems to largely happen when someone died before they were born! Pretty good way to get you to take a good look at it, LOL! PAF always asked if that was really what you really meant when you tried to add dates that made no sense, like the marriage year for the birth date. Rootsmagic just takes them and never says boo. Dora ------------------------------- 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

Sorry - I mis-spoke - It's a Red Triangle and you have to click on it! Lou ________________________________ From: Lou Love via <[email protected]> To: Dora Smith <[email protected]>; "[email protected]" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2015 9:43 AM Subject: Re: [RMagic] Sort Dates in exported GEDCOM RM gives you an error message in the form of the Yellow Triangle which when your pointer hovers over it will tell you the problem. Good Hunting, Love, Lou Louis E. Love, O.D. ________________________________ From: Dora Smith via <[email protected]> To: Jon Czarowitz <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Tuesday, January 13, 2015 9:01 PM Subject: Re: [RMagic] Sort Dates in exported GEDCOM I noticed that sometimes the death comes before the birth in order - seems to largely happen when someone died before they were born! Pretty good way to get you to take a good look at it, LOL! PAF always asked if that was really what you really meant when you tried to add dates that made no sense, like the marriage year for the birth date. Rootsmagic just takes them and never says boo. Dora ------------------------------- 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 =================================== RM list Archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/ROOTSMAGIC-USERS/ http://archiver.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/search?path=ROOTSMAGIC-USERS WISH LIST: http://www.rootsmagic.com/forums/ BLOG: http://blog.rootsmagic.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