"Tough noogies" is such harsh language ;-) The sort date was designed to allow the user to sort events in any order they prefer, rather than RM making any assumptions that the user may not want. - Bruce http://www.rootsmagic.com On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Ludlow Bay <ludlow.bay@gmail.com> wrote: > Yeah, you'd think it would work the way you described. However, the official > line (paraphrasing) is: "tough noogies - deal with it". > > See this forum post for the official wording: > http://forums.rootsmagic.com/index.php?/topic/11808-rootsmagic-6/#entry53897 > > > > > > >> /From:/Ray Hayes <rayhayes@bigpond.net.au <mailto:rayhayes@bigpond.net.au>> >> /Subject:/[RMagic] RootsMagic 6 - sorting of birth,death and burial events >> when all occur in the same year >> /Date:/Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:20:26 +1100 >> >> >> I have a child born, died and buried all in 1896. >> >> I would have expected the events to sort Birth, Death, Burial, however >> they sort in reverse order showing Burial, Death, Birth in the Edit >> Person window. >> >> I can change the sort date for each event, but I don't think that I >> should have to? >> >> I entered the Birth event, then the Death, then the Burial so it is not >> sorting based on which event was entered first. >> >> Any thoughts? >> >> Ray > > > > =================================== > 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

On 12/24/2012 9:50 AM, RootsMagic wrote: > "Tough noogies" is such harsh language ;-) > > The sort date was designed to allow the user to sort events in any > order they prefer, rather than RM making any assumptions that the user > may not want. > Darlin' while I appreciate everything that you and the RootsMagic development team do for us, and your willingness to participate in this forum, that's a crock and you know it. Who, in their right mind wants to bury somebody, then -- oh, lets have them born! Then they might die and after that the christening! There are indeed some facts that I might want to sort differently than you, but "born, christened, died and buried" ain't them~! 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

The way it is done now helps catch typo errors quickly. Otherwise, they might stay until someone else catches them. Merry Christmas. J. Davis From: Susan Farmer Sent: Monday, December 24, 2012 10:25 PM To: rootsmagic-users@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [RMagic] RootsMagic 6 - sorting of birth, death and burial events when all occur in the same year On 12/24/2012 9:50 AM, RootsMagic wrote: > "Tough noogies" is such harsh language ;-) > > The sort date was designed to allow the user to sort events in any > order they prefer, rather than RM making any assumptions that the user > may not want. > Darlin' while I appreciate everything that you and the RootsMagic development team do for us, and your willingness to participate in this forum, that's a crock and you know it. Who, in their right mind wants to bury somebody, then -- oh, lets have them born! Then they might die and after that the christening! There are indeed some facts that I might want to sort differently than you, but "born, christened, died and buried" ain't them~! 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 =================================== 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 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.2805 / Virus Database: 2637/5983 - Release Date: 12/24/12

Thanks Bruce, I appreciate the ability to manually sort events, and use the feature for various situations, such as when I find someone on two electoral electoral rolls in the one year and I know which addresses they moved from and to. However for basic birth, baptism/christening, death an burial/cremation events, very few people are baptised before they are born and very few are buried before they die. I've watched enough CSI and Bones episodes to know that being buried alive and expiring a day or two later in extreme stress is common in those shows, but very rare in the real world. RM should sort those basic events automatically, with the sort date available as it is for other scenarios. Choosing not to fix that is, in Aussie terms, a "cop out". Regards Ray On 25/12/2012 1:50 AM, RootsMagic wrote: > "Tough noogies" is such harsh language ;-) > > The sort date was designed to allow the user to sort events in any > order they prefer, rather than RM making any assumptions that the user > may not want. > > - Bruce > http://www.rootsmagic.com > > > On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 12:17 AM, Ludlow Bay <ludlow.bay@gmail.com> wrote: >> Yeah, you'd think it would work the way you described. However, the official >> line (paraphrasing) is: "tough noogies - deal with it". >> >> See this forum post for the official wording: >> http://forums.rootsmagic.com/index.php?/topic/11808-rootsmagic-6/#entry53897 >> >> >> >> >> >> >>> /From:/Ray Hayes <rayhayes@bigpond.net.au <mailto:rayhayes@bigpond.net.au>> >>> /Subject:/[RMagic] RootsMagic 6 - sorting of birth,death and burial events >>> when all occur in the same year >>> /Date:/Mon, 24 Dec 2012 17:20:26 +1100 >>> >>> >>> I have a child born, died and buried all in 1896. >>> >>> I would have expected the events to sort Birth, Death, Burial, however >>> they sort in reverse order showing Burial, Death, Birth in the Edit >>> Person window. >>> >>> I can change the sort date for each event, but I don't think that I >>> should have to? >>> >>> I entered the Birth event, then the Death, then the Burial so it is not >>> sorting based on which event was entered first. >>> >>> Any thoughts? >>> >>> Ray >> >> >> =================================== >> 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 >