#1052 Re-order sources...like re-order media

[Ian]

Thanks for the hard work on 4.16pre. I would like to request a feature that would allow a user to re-order the facts in the sources tab. This would work similar to the re-order media option.

I have entered several census records for an individual, and then later found a census for that person that fits between the first ones I entered... i would like to have an easier way to re-order them other then editing the raw gedcom record. So.... a sources that displays as

1880 census
1910 Census
1870 Census
1920 Census

Could be re-ordered to display as:

1870 Census
1880 Census
1910 Census
1920 Census

Thanks.

ian

[Greg Roach]

Doesn't it do this already? It does for me. Each source is attached to a dated census record, and the facts (and hence sources) get sorted in this order. I've just checked a few records in my tree, and they are all sorted correctly.

[Anonymous]

Greg, I suspect the issue is "Each source is attached to a dated census recod".

Ian, if my assumption is correct, based on the wording of your question, you enter census data just as:
1 SOUR @S1@

and then
0 @S1@
1 TITL 1850 census

or something similar? if so you will have the problem you describe - unnecessarily.
Enter census as Greg describes:
1 CENS
2 DATE 1840
2 PLAC wherever, some country
2 SOUR @S1@
2 NOTE All the census info you want to include

This will then be sorted into correct date order.

[Ian]

Greg, Kiwi,

It seems is I have been entering the data wrong...(sigh...3 years worth of data to clean up now....)

Kiwi you are correct here is a snippet of a gedcom sowing my census entries:
1 SOUR @S7@
2 PAGE Source Citation: Year: 1860; Census Place: Fugit, Decatur, Indiana; Roll: M653_253; Page: 835; Image: 204.
2 DATA
3 TEXT Original data: United States of America, Bureau of the Census. Eighth Census of the United States, 1860. Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, 1860. M653, 1,438 rolls.
2 OBJE @M454@

Is there anyway around re-editing all of my entries?

Ian

[Greg Roach]

I can't think of an easy way of doing this through the PGV front end, or using an advanced text editor.

You're going to need a script to do this.