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Date Posted: Fri, 18 Mar 2005, 19:20 GMT
Author: Michael Horey
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Re: Children sorted by name, not by date of birth
In reply to: Han Reijmers 's message, "Children sorted by name, not by date of birth" on Wed, 16 Mar 2005, 16:52 GMT

>First of all: thanks for this fine program. I just
>started a website and found dftcom2 to make a family
>tree. I exported the family data to a gedcom file and
>compiled the tree. No problems at all. But the
>children are sorted by name, and in the examples on
>the website I see them sorted by date of birth. Is
>there a compiler setting to achieve this behaviour? I
>could not find it.

The DFT does no sorting on children and lists children in the same order that they appear in the appropriate FAM record of the Gedcom file.

Your genealogical database program may well have a facility for re-ordering children and should hopefully export them to Gedcom in the same order.

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Re: Children sorted by name, not by date of birth -- Han Reijmers, Sun, 20 Mar 2005, 14:31 GMT

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>>First of all: thanks for this fine program. I just >>started a website and found dftcom2 to make a family >>tree. I exported the family data to a gedcom file and >>compiled the tree. No problems at all. But the >>children are sorted by name, and in the examples on >>the website I see them sorted by date of birth. Is >>there a compiler setting to achieve this behaviour? I >>could not find it. > >The DFT does no sorting on children and lists children >in the same order that they appear in the appropriate >FAM record of the Gedcom file. > >Your genealogical database program may well have a >facility for re-ordering children and should hopefully >export them to Gedcom in the same order.
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