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From: Lee Hoffman/KY <>
Subject: Re: TMG-L: Imported Data Set
Date: Thu, 02 Dec 1999 23:07:57 -0500


Brenda wrote:
>Completed my first data set import. The Family Page imported and listed
>children without DOB before children and events with dates. How do I arrange
>the children to appear after the marriage date?

TMG displays data in a chronological order as you have seen.
Unfortunately, we often don't know the dates of many events. However, we
can usually estimate a date. But because our estimate are often just plain
guesses, we may not want them to print. TMG provides the Sort Date for
this purpose. So add a Birth tag with only a Sort Date that positions the
child properly (or as well as you can estimate) within the parent's Person
View. The Sort Date never prints and is only used to sequence tags within
TMG.

Hope this helps -


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