Sounds like a good reason not to use Birth Order flags, just use sort dates to keep them in order, then if that is changed, it won't be necessary to change the flags. On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 1:10 PM, Lee Hoffman/KY <[email protected]> wrote: > At 12/13/2017 15:02, Chuck Wolfram wrote > >> From what I understand of the history the Birth Order flag was included as >> a feature before we had sort dates. When I began using TMG they already >> had >> sort dates and I have never used that flag. Just use sort dates and they >> accomplish the same thing and more---the right place (according to you) on >> the parent's page. That flag can be safely ignored. >> > > One other point about the Birth Order Flag is that it will override any > Sort Date sequencing. So if you have say three children as follows: > Child A (b. 1846) Birth Order Flag 1 > Child B (b. 1848) Birth Order Flag 2 > Child C (no birth Tag) (Birth Order Flag 3) > The children will sort according to the Birth Order Flag. > > You now learn the birth date for the third child and it happens to be that > the child is actually the first born. You add a Birth Tag giving it a Sort > Date of 1844 then the children will still sort by the Birth Order Flag > because you forgot to change the Birth Order Flag numbering. > > Lee > > The TMG archive is found here: http://archiver.rootsweb.ances > try.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 >