There is nothing natural or logical about "Born 1900 - Died 1899". Program for the masses (and we have spoken) - and let the rare person with those quirky dates use Sort Dates :-) > > /From:/RootsMagic <rootsmagic@gmail.com <mailto:rootsmagic@gmail.com>> > /Subject:/Re: [RMagic] RootsMagic 6 - sorting of birth,death and burial events > when all occur in the same year > /Date:/Tue, 25 Dec 2012 09:08:29 -0700 > > So my question stands... what is the definition of "naturally", > "logically", "organically" for the example below? I'm pointing out > that no two users are exactly the same, and when one group of users > says a feature to work "like this", there is another group that wants > it to work "like that". In this thread, we had at least one person > say they would want the birth before the death regardless of the date, > while others have said they would want it sorted by date. As a > software company, we have to be able to try and support all users, not > just one group of users. That is why we implemented the sort date, so > users can sort it the way they want. > > Now the other situation, where multiple events have the same date, > that is a different story, and I have asked Jerry for some > clarification as to how that might be handled outside the simple death > and burial have the same date type of scenario. > > - Bruce > http://www.rootsmagic.com <http://www.rootsmagic.com/>