On 12/25/2012 11:48 AM, RootsMagic wrote: > Paul, > > I think I understand how dates and sort dates work ;-) > > What I meant by saying if there is no date (thus no sort date), is > that what is being asked for is for RM to *automatically* put those > events in BMD order. If I enter a birth and death event with no date, > RM does not just make up a sort date (thus no sort date by default). > Then why not give an *OPTION* for a standard sort order? If you don't want it, don't turn it on! Clearly, from this conversation thread (which I do understand is a small percentage of users), MANY more folks want it than don't! Susan -- Susan Farmer sfarmer@goldsword.com Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College Division of Science and Math http://www.abac.edu/sfarmer http://www.goldsword.com/sfarmer/Trillium

On 12/25/2012 11:37 AM, Susan Farmer wrote: > <snip> > Then why not give an *OPTION* for a standard sort order? If you don't > want it, don't turn it on! Clearly, from this conversation thread > (which I do understand is a small percentage of users), MANY more > folks want it than don't! Susan I think that's an incorrect conclusion. A more correct conclusion would be that more of the people dissatisfied with the way RM handles it now would like it differently. The hundreds (maybe thousands) of us who are not dissatisfied are absent from the current discussion. However, I personally have no problem with a switchable option (unless it breaks something else that's working now). -- Charlie Hoffpauir http://my.rootsmagic.com/CRHoffpauir/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~charlieh/ http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=board&r=rw&p=surnames.hoffpauir http://www.familytreedna.com/group-join.aspx?Group=Hoffpauir