At 12/13/2017 12:37, Greg Vaut wrote >After years of stuffing data into TMG, I'm finally starting to try to >extract some of it back out in reports and now realizing that formatting >Reports, Sources, etc. is something I need to spend a lot of time on. I >have a lot to learn! > >On my FGS reports, in the heading for each child, why does a "?" (question >mark) appear before the "M" or "F" in front of each child's name? (Each is >preceded with a "?/M" or "?/F", depending on the sex of the child.) > >I can't see anything the the designation of the parents that might them >appear to be conditional/questionable. The "?" takes the place of the "child number" when the Birth Order is not known. The Birth Order Flag is used to set this value. I rarely use the Birth Order Flag and then only when I _know_ the birth order but not the birth date for one or more children. Lee