Put and about date of marriage..i.e. c 1840 or c 1829...the one with the earliest date with be the first wife......I figured that out. Good luck. Joy In a message dated 9/4/01 9:50:48 PM Eastern Daylight Time, JimLeviner@aol.com writes: > I have not figured out how to put spouses in correct order. If i entered a > wife then learned there was a wife before her but,I had to put the first > wife in as second wife, I could not put her in as first wife. My program > assumes that the first spouse I enter is no 1 and that the second spouse is > no 2. Some times I find out about a first spouse years after I have > entered > info about a spouse. This means that no 2 will show as no 1 and so on. > even though the dates for the children and dates of death show different. > If > I ever learn how do rearrange them in the correct order I will do so. > >