To all, I left a genealogy program that controlled most every thing for RM because I was impressed with the option to customize many more items. Yes it is annoying to find that an infant died before birth but I know to set the sort date. Here is one for those of you who would prefer automated structure. My husband's ancestors were involved in pirating and privateering. One had several aka's, died and was buried in more than one place and at several different points in time, under different names. His events continued after he died multiple times. I prefer my freedom to choose. The only way to compromise would be to have a database preference box to tick and it should be auto sort or manual sort. Anything more or in between would complicate what does not need to be complicated. In my opinion, the sort date process is not complicated. Jane

Nothing that I have proposed removes any freedom for you to customize your event order by customizing your sort dates. All it does is to exploit the capabilities of sort dates at the time of date entry so that, by default, the natural or logical order of events that occurred on the same date is respected, thus saving you the nuisance of having to customize your sort dates. By the same token, the process would be applied on import. Tom On 2012-12-25, at 6:44 PM, m absalom <mjabsalom@yahoo.com> wrote: > To all, > > I left a genealogy program that controlled most every thing for RM because I was impressed with the option to customize many more items. Yes it is annoying to find that an infant died before birth but I know to set the sort date. Here is one for those of you who would prefer automated structure. My husband's ancestors were involved in pirating and privateering. One had several aka's, died and was buried in more than one place and at several different points in time, under different names. His events continued after he died multiple times. I prefer my freedom to choose. The only way to compromise would be to have a database preference box to tick and it should be auto sort or manual sort. Anything more or in between would complicate what does not need to be complicated. In my opinion, the sort date process is not complicated. > Jane > > > =================================== > 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