Hi Isabel, I was told basically the same thing years ago. But I would think the disruption it would cause would be minimal in relation to the benefits it would offer ALL Legacy users. Perhaps the programmers could create an option to override this and allow users to "un-chronologically" (if than can be used as a word<grin>) set their order of children, either for the whole file or by families. I don't know! If children are entered without a birth date then why would the programmers not create a situation where these children are listed at the bottom, or top of the lists? This way we could have all children with birth dates shown chronologically!
I don't think I've seen another genealogy program that does not automatically place children in chronological order of birth, but then again I could be wrong. I think in many cases this is the result if importing via a GEDCOM, but am not too sure if this is a part of the problem. Cheers, Ron Ch�nier ----- Original Message ----- From: "Isabel M. Carter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 6:12 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] Child Order > I asked that exact question the last time I needed to contact someone within > the company. I also would like to put all of the children in chronological > order... automatically, not just one family at a time. I was told that this > option was not offered because often children have no birth dates, and some > users will manually arrange them in their known order of birth. A program > that arranges children in birth order would undo the work that these users > have done. > > I still would like the option to sort the children automatically. Perhaps > there could be a block to check for those certain families that have been > manually arranged, to exclude them from the sorting. > > Isabel > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ron Chenier" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 5:46 PM > Subject: [LegacyUG] Child Order > > > > I find it frustrating to see the order birth of children out of sequence. > > Would it be possible in future upgrades to have all children displayed > > chronologicaly? > > > > Thank you, > > Ron Ch�nier > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Claire Quortrup" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Friday, September 05, 2003 3:17 PM > > Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] They had at least Suggestion > > > > > > > Gene, > > > > > > I prefer the phrase "They had [number] known children:" > > > > > > As a matter of fact when editing narrative reports in Word that is what > I > > > change the phrase to. Just my thoughts. > > > > > > Claire > > > > > > > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > > > > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > > > > > To unsubscribe please visit: > > > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > > > > > > > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > > > To unsubscribe please visit: > > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: > http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp > > To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: > http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ > > To unsubscribe please visit: > http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp > Legacy User Group Etiquette guidelines can be found at: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp To find past messages, please go to our searchable archives at: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup%40mail.millenniacorp.com/ To unsubscribe please visit: http://www.legacyfamilytree.com/LegacyLists.asp
