Re: [LegacyUG] Problem With Marriage Sequence Dates

Hello Thomas, It's a known bug Which I believe has been in V9 since its introduction, but it's one that apparently no one wants to bother fixing!! It has been mentioned on the beta list and this one many times by me and others. Having spouses in the *correct* order in your family files

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem With Marriage Sequence Dates

To do that you will have to manually sort the marriages. There is no option to sort by dates in descending order to put older marriages after the current one. To manually sort use the two arrow buttons in the lower right of the spouse list. Brian Kelly On 06-Oct-17 11:51 AM, Roberta

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem With Marriage Sequence Dates

Cathy, can we put the spouses in reverse order. By that I mean the most recent spouse first, followed by the previous spouse(e)s so that, when we print out a report, we automatically have the current spouse appear first followed by previous one(s). On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:17 AM, Cathy Pinner

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem With Marriage Sequence Dates

I had a private exchange with Dave N. off the list. He now agrees that there is no longer a bug in the ordering of spouses in web pages and reports in the latest update to Legacy 9.0 dated 16 Sep 2017. He had been comparing the output from a previous version in web pages created in July 2017

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem With Marriage Sequence Dates

I guess I'll leave it as is. Roberta On Fri, Oct 6, 2017 at 8:58 PM, Cathy Pinner wrote: > Roberta, > You would have to do that yourself individually for each person with > multiple marriages. > At the same time you'd have to edit the Marriage Wording for every > marriage

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem With Marriage Sequence Dates

Roberta, You would have to do that yourself individually for each person with multiple marriages. At the same time you'd have to edit the Marriage Wording for every marriage so that they made sense. Currently the default wording for the first marriage is "married" and for the following

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem With Marriage Sequence Dates

>From other posts on this topic, it seems that she would have preferred Legacy >9's bug that put spouses in the reverse order. A REAL improvement would be the ability to have events ordered by name first, and then chronoligically. That is definitely possible in Access, on which Legacy is

[LegacyUG] Problem With Marriage Sequence Dates

Hi all, I have a "strange" problem.  I have a person in my family history that in his lifetime married three times.  The correct date sequence of these marriages have been recorded correctly in the Family View Window of the "legacy" software, however whenever I print out reports (example;

Re: [LegacyUG] Problem With Marriage Sequence Dates

Look at the Spouse list and re-order the spouses. However, it's likely others are out of order so to do them all at once go to Tools - Other Tools - Sort Cathy Thomas Cox wrote: Hi all, I have a "strange" problem. I have a person in my family history that in his lifetime married three