Posted By:	Judith Litsinger Burgett
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	Subject:	FRUSTRATING SORT DATE PROBLEM
	Post Date:	October 04, 2006 at 08:40:30
	Message URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/uft/messages/11186.html
	Forum:	Ultimate Family Tree Forum
	Forum URL:	http://genforum.genealogy.com/uft/

My UFT program was successfully transferred to Windows XP with the expertise of a paid computer person. Previously, I was able to use a sort date to arrange missing births in order. Under the birth category I would write “unknown,” and fabricate a sort date that placed the person correctly within the family unit. Even if a death date existed, no calculated age appeared. Now, however, if I know a death date and make up a birth sort date, UFT inserts an age at death into the record. If I don’t use a sort date, individuals with missing births incorrectly pop to the top of the sibling list. Does anyone know of a simple way to solve this problem? I’m good at word processing and Internet searches, but am totally inept at data-based and computer programming. Thank you. Judith A. Burgett