Hi List This is driving me NUTS!  I can't figure out why I have a Dau-Bio tag that stays sorted in the detail screens of her parents at the top.  It looks fine on the daughter's detail screen (sorts correctly before her death in 1813), but when I go to the parents, it does not sort properly. The daughter's birth is entered with a date as 31 Sep 1804 with the sort date entered the same way.  On the parent screens, the birth comes up at the top- so her birth is before the father's birth on 09 Apr 1777 on his screen, and similarly on the mother's screen it shows this birth in 1804 before the mother's birth in 1783. Any ideas what the cause could be and a fix?  I've run the file maintenance over & over- & restarted the computer to no avail.  I'm a little under the weather, so maybe I did something stupid- but what?  There's no problem with the other siblings. Would appreciate any help- Thanks, Sydney Delfs

On 12/1/17 6:26 PM, Sydney wrote: > Hi List > > This is driving me NUTS!  I can't figure out why I have a Dau-Bio tag > that stays sorted in the detail screens of her parents at the top.  It > looks fine on the daughter's detail screen (sorts correctly before her > death in 1813), but when I go to the parents, it does not sort properly. > > The daughter's birth is entered with a date as 31 Sep 1804 with the > sort date entered the same way.  On the parent screens, the birth > comes up at the top- so her birth is before the father's birth on 09 > Apr 1777 on his screen, and similarly on the mother's screen it shows > this birth in 1804 before the mother's birth in 1783. > > Any ideas what the cause could be and a fix?  I've run the file > maintenance over & over- & restarted the computer to no avail.  I'm a > little under the weather, so maybe I did something stupid- but what?  > There's no problem with the other siblings. > > Would appreciate any help- > > Thanks, > Sydney Delfs For the Daughter, it won't be a Dau-Bio tag connecting her to her parents, those would be mother/father-bio tags (the relationship tag is really just a -bio tag, and the fat/mot/par/son/dau/chi is added based on the which side of the relationship you are on, and the sex of the other person). If you see a Dau-Bio tag in the daughters detail list, that indicates that she is the mother of the indicated person. (Could this tag be backwards?) It also shouldn't show in the detail list of the child if it is primary, as it would move up into the Father/Mother blocks. -- Richard Damon

Is Sep 31 really the date you are using? It is not a valid date. Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 1, 2017, at 4:52 PM, Richard Damon <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On 12/1/17 6:26 PM, Sydney wrote: >> Hi List >> >> This is driving me NUTS! I can't figure out why I have a Dau-Bio tag that stays sorted in the detail screens of her parents at the top. It looks fine on the daughter's detail screen (sorts correctly before her death in 1813), but when I go to the parents, it does not sort properly. >> >> The daughter's birth is entered with a date as 31 Sep 1804 with the sort date entered the same way. On the parent screens, the birth comes up at the top- so her birth is before the father's birth on 09 Apr 1777 on his screen, and similarly on the mother's screen it shows this birth in 1804 before the mother's birth in 1783. >> >> Any ideas what the cause could be and a fix? I've run the file maintenance over & over- & restarted the computer to no avail. I'm a little under the weather, so maybe I did something stupid- but what? There's no problem with the other siblings. >> >> Would appreciate any help- >> >> Thanks, >> Sydney Delfs > > For the Daughter, it won't be a Dau-Bio tag connecting her to her parents, those would be mother/father-bio tags (the relationship tag is really just a -bio tag, and the fat/mot/par/son/dau/chi is added based on the which side of the relationship you are on, and the sex of the other person). > > If you see a Dau-Bio tag in the daughters detail list, that indicates that she is the mother of the indicated person. (Could this tag be backwards?) > > It also shouldn't show in the detail list of the child if it is primary, as it would move up into the Father/Mother blocks. > -- > > Richard Damon > > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index/TMG/ > Instructions on how to subscribe to TMG: http://lists.rootsweb.ancestry.com/index/other/Software/TMG.html > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

At 06:26 PM 12/1/2017, Sydney wrote: >The daughter's birth is entered with a date as 31 Sep 1804 with the >sort date entered the same way. On the "30 days hath September; April, June, and November" September 31 would be an irregular date, and likely has irregular rules for sorting. -- [email protected] Dennis Lee Bieber HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/

On 12/1/17 8:28 PM, Dennis Lee Bieber wrote: > At 06:26 PM 12/1/2017, Sydney wrote: >> The daughter's birth is entered with a date as 31 Sep 1804 with the >> sort date entered the same way.  On the > >         "30 days hath September; April, June, and November" > >         September 31 would be an irregular date, and likely has > irregular rules for sorting. > > -- >     [email protected]        Dennis Lee Bieber >     HTTP://home.earthlink.net/~bieber.genealogy/ > Irregular dates have very defined rules for sorting, they sort strictly alphabetically (I think based on ASCII codes) and all irregular date sort before all regular dates. -- Richard Damon