Everyone in my 70,000+ file has at least an abt birth year. I approximate 30 years per generation, marriage at about 25, first child one year after marriage, a child every two years, the wife is 2 years younger than the husband. In some large family groups I've been off by as much as 40 years.
On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 10:23 AM, Heather Stovold <hstov...@gmail.com>wrote: > Well actually - I always put in an estimated birth date - marked as an > estimate.... it works well for keeping track of different people with the > same name, or for helping me know aproximately when to look for someone. > Having an estimated birthdate helped me realize that 2 people with the same > name in my database were in fact the same person. (I checked a lot of > information around it first...) > So yes, I would love a global sort children - although I think I do have > them all sorted. > > And I think that they could have a global sort-children option which leaves > alone (and brings up for review?) and families that have any children > without a birth or christening date.... > > > > On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 5:15 PM, Mike Fry <mike...@iafrica.com> wrote: > >> Doris wrote: >> >>> Does anyone know if there is blanket way to perform a “sort order of >>> children” for a family file as a whole? So far, I am doing it with each >>> married couple with children but this way is taking too long and I keep >>> missing some so this becomes a common occurrence on my potential problem >>> report. >>> >> >> As others have said, there isn't any global function such as you describe. >> >> Why would you want this? Think about it! Have you got birth and/or baptism >> dates for everyone in your file? If not, then a global sort will place those >> without dates before those that do have dates. Probably not what you're >> looking to do :-) You'd still have to go back to each family to make sure >> that the children are in the right sequence. >> >> -- >> Best regards, >> Mike Fry >> Johannesburg. >> >> >> -- Bob Arens Vice President & Chief Financial Officer EagleVisions Energy LLC www.eaglevisionsenergy.com 1-952-430-7000
