Well said!! On 12/27/2012 10:06 AM, Red Fenton wrote: > I just don't see this being the big issue that people are making it. I just > have never found it to be a problem so I wrote a small program to find where I > had the same date for birth and baptism, birth and death, or death and burial; > It turns out to be in less than one half of one percent of the total number of > fact entries in my database. On those rare occasions when they might be the > same I use the sort date or the more common case for me is where I pick up the > Death Date from a tombstone I enter the death date as that on the tombstone and > the burial date as being AFT the death date. Doing it at the time of data > entry takes no time at all. I would rather see Bruce continue to use his time > to provide us with new capabilities like he has been doing than "fix" a problem > that is easily handled by the program as it now stands. > > > > ----- Original Message ---- > From: George W. Durman <GermannaResearch@comcast.net> > To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thu, December 27, 2012 12:00:57 AM > Subject: Re: [RMagic] RootsMagic 6 - sorting of birth, death and burial events > when all occur in the same year > > I'm almost ignorant on this subject, but how difficult would it be for those > who write the code for RootsMagic to make the program sort by EVENT, > i.e., Birth, Christening, Marriage, Death, Burial, etc., regardless of the date? > > FTM does that automatically, Birth comes before Marriage, Marriage comes > before Death, Death comes before Burial, etc. > > Is it so difficult to sort by logical Events? > > Doesn't seem to be an insurmountable problem, just takes common sense. > If Birth, Death, and Burial all happen in the same year, why can't RM > automatically align the events to show a logical progression? > > Sarge > > > Germanna Database at Ancestry: > http://trees.ancestry.com/tree/28427876/family > > My Germanna Database at Rootsweb: > http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=germanna > > My Germanna Website at Rootsweb: > http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~george/index.html > > > > =================================== > 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 > ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com 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 ROOTSMAGIC-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >