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From: "William M Roberts" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Sort not consistent?
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 20:33:20 -0400
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Cheryl

Are all of the tags marked primary, especially the death tag.

Myrnice

"Cheryl Freeman" wrote on Tuesday, June 01, 2004 5:24 PM
Subject: [TMG] Sort not consistent?


> I am having a problem, apparently with sort dates, for one individual in a
descendancy narrative - but I cannot duplicate the problem when I run an IN
on that person.
>
> Here are the primary tags for this person:
>
> Birth Data and Sort date are both "ca 1838".
>
> Marriage Date and Marriage Sort date are both "13 Oct 1853".
>
> Death Date and Death Sort date are both "06 Aug 1896".
>
> Burial Date is blank, and Burial Sort date is "08 Aug 1896".
>
> All sentences except the burial sentence have [CR:][:CR] preceding them.
>
> Here is the output in the descendancy report:
>
> Malinda Ann Winn was born in 1854 at Boone County, Missouri.
>
> Malinda Ann Winn married James Thomas Wingo on 11 Jan 1870. She
was buried at Rocky Fork Church Cemetery, Boone County, Missouri.
>
> Malinda Ann Winn died in 1893 at Boone County, Missouri.
>
> Since the last sort date is on the burial tag, why is the burial sentence
moving up next to the marriage sentence - where it makes no sense?
>
> When I run an IN report on this person, the report outputs exactly as it
should:
>
> Malinda Ann Winn was born in 1854 at Boone County, Missouri.
>
> Malinda Ann Winn married James Thomas Wingo on 11 Jan 1870.
>
> Malinda Ann Winn (1043) died in 1893 at Boone County, Missouri.
She was buried at Rocky Fork Church Cemetery, Boone County, Missouri.
>
> Can anyone tell me why this might be happening?
>
> Thanks!


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