My original suggestion was to have an auto-sort capability for:
(1) children in a family {by birth date}, and/or
(2) for marriages of an individual {by marriage date}.After reading some of the responses I would like to set some conditions for the sort routines: (a) all auto-sort routines would be global, and would be user-controllable. A user could elect to use either global auto-sort routine or choose to turn either off. (b) if a user has a particular family (for auto-sort of children) or a particular individual (for auto-sort of marriage) that he/she doesn't want auto-sorted, the program would have a check-box for that family or individual where the user can turn off auto-sort for that particular family (auto-sort for children) or individual (auto-sort for marriages). This way a global auto-sort could be used for the database in general, but the user could turn it off for special-occassion instances where he/she would not want the global auto-sort to mess with what he/she has entered. (c) the auto-sort will not affect any records that don't have a at least a year of birth (auto-sort of children) or at least a year of marriage (for auto-sort of marriages). (d) the auto-sort for children routine would not re-order children who do not have at least a year of birth in the birth field. That way if you have a family of 5 children, none of which have a birth year entered, and you entered them in your program in a certain order (which you believe is the correct order of birth, even if you have no birth years), the auto-sort routine would leave them in the order you entered them. Also, let's say you have a family with 4 children, and children 1, 3, 4 have birth years, but child 2 doesn't: the auto-sort routine would sort children 1,3, and 4 according to their birth years. I guess the routine would have to be written in some way to maybe put that child ahead of all the others or behind all the others... I don't know how that particular situation would be handled. Anyway, it's just a suggestion and I'm airing for comment. 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
