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From: "Cheryl Freeman" <>
Subject: Re: [TMG] Sort not consistent?
Date: Wed, 2 Jun 2004 08:20:39 -0500
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Hi Dale,

I actually had done exactly that:

> Death Date and Death Sort date are both "06 Aug 1896".
>
> Burial Date is blank, and Burial Sort date is "08 Aug 1896".

I re-entered the dates and they are sorting correctly now. Not sure what
happened last night as they were sorting correctly on an IN but not on a
descendency report. I will chalk it up to "stuff happening" for now. I
would prefer to think that she was buried after her death. :)


----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Wednesday, June 02, 2004 6:20 AM
Subject: Re: [TMG] Sort not consistent?


> I can't tell you why burials get out of order but the fix is simple. If I
> know the death date and the burial date I enter them under the date and in
most
> cases the burial immediately follows the death by a few days. If, as often
> happens, I know the date of death, sometimes only the year, and I do not
know the
> burial date, I put a later date in the sort date field of the burial tag
to
> make sure burial goes in the right place. One may not know the exact date
of
> burial but one must presume it follows death in most cases. I would
suppose that,
> if it didn't, it ought to rate an explanatory memo as the story ought to
be
> interesting reading.-Dale
>
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