You've entered non-standard dates. These will show up in a potential problem report. You can do it. You may decide to keep doing it. But it seems unreasonable to expect a database to sort non-standard dates. Maybe one day the range of standard dates may increase. In the meantime, if you continue using non-standard dates, you can sort them yourself using the arrow keys on the Event page. This won't help the Chronology Report use them in the right place however.
You can enter a date range using "from - to" or "between - and"
but the dates must be standard. year, month and year, day, month and year.
For "in the early nineteen fifties", if you are referencing a point of time event you could use "between 1950 and 1955".
If referencing an event that happened over a period of time in that time slot you may be best to enter "about 1953" for sorting purposes and add a note. You could use an override sentence so that the about date wasn't reported in book reports.
Cheers, Cathy
At 05:40 14/12/2004, you wrote:
Over the last couple of days I've been experimenting with the events for occupation and residence for a family member I have a lot of data for. It seems to work OK, and I rather like the little chart you get on the left on the Individual Report. However, not all the dates sort properly. This is not too surprising because some of them are entered in non-standard ways. However, it would be darn nice if Legacy could figure out some of these and sort them correctly -- they're not impossible, just complicated.
Here are the dates from the events I entered, in the order they sort into:
from summer 1960 to December 1961 in the late nineteen-fifties in the early nineteen-fifties from her birth in 1919 until she went to university from 1962 to 1965 from 1962 to early 1965 from 1965 to 1979 from 1965 to her death in 1981
I suspect the first four are sorted randomly and the last for are sorted on at least the first year found, which is quite reasonable. Is it unreasonable to hope that Legacy would one day be able to sort this list by date? It would be OK if I had to say "1950s" or "1950's" instead of "nineteen-fifties", if that would help. Even just picking out the first year in the text would be a pretty good way to go.
Mike
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