For my part I've never had a problem with setting the sort date for those cases where the certain events actual or assumed dates didn't line up chronologically automatically. The sort date works easily for me with very little effort. I would prefer that the software not be altered with a switch to make birth, marriage, death, and funeral and other events line up in some popular or assume common sense sequence. My observation has been that life events don't actually follow some popularly assumed order or sequence in real lives. I vote for leaving this thing as is. For years I've referred to this list almost daily and more often than not learn something, even if it isn't something that is on my personal importance list at the time. Sometimes a thread goes on a little long but eventually goes away, but this thread has gone on ad nauseam and am eager to have it end. I don't care who thinks they are right and has a hold on common sense, but I do know that Bruce has the best genealogy program out there for many years for us to use. I still trust that he makes the best choices for that program that will meet the needs of genealogists and their professional criteria as well as some of us family history hobbyists. We can't all have the lily gilded to our personal preferences. Thanks for a great program, Bruce. John Robbins