Excellent summarization, Ray. Bruce Buzbee has never liked being told he was wrong. > /From:/Ray Hayes <rayhayes@bigpond.net.au <mailto:rayhayes@bigpond.net.au>> > /Subject:/Re: [RMagic] RootsMagic 6 - sorting of birth,death and burial events > when all occur in the same year > /Date:/Tue, 25 Dec 2012 11:09:58 +1100 > > 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

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