Globally Sort Events

From the main screen pick File, Utility, Globally Sort Events.

Be sure you have a current Backup of your database before running this routine.

There are three options for the event sort.

1.  The first option will sort by dates, but if there are no dates (or the date is the same) it will sort by event type.  So for example, if a person currently has: 

Born        1950  Chicago

Died              Chicago

Occupation        Farmer

It would end up as follows because the occupation event would come before the died event:

Born        1950  Chicago

Occupation        Farmer

Died              Chicago

2. The second option will sort primarily by type of event.  So if you tell it to sort in the order of:  Born, Occupation, Died, Buried, then if it currently has

Born        1950  Chicago

Occupation  1970  Farmer

Occupation        Salesman

Occupation  1990  Baker

Died              Chicago

Buried            Chicago

then it would not be changed.  If there are two or three occupations and one does not have a date, it will say in the same order that it was previously.

3. The third option of sorting is by date only.    So if you had

Died        1950

Born        1950

It would not change the order of events.  This is different from the first type of sort which would change the order to put born first in a situation where the dates are the same or the dates are blank.