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Question about event sentences.

In the events, I can't figure out how to change the word FROM to ON. From is used on almost every date in the events fields. "He appeared on the 1870 Federal census from 28 May 1904 in Seattle, King, Washington, United States"

Reminder to back up your work - lesson learned!

Another back up your work lesson: I do back up every time I close my program, but I will leave it open for days and just close my laptop cover (have a separate monitor) Last week I decided to merge two file together, and did not back up at that moment, then decided that was dumb as I had cleaned up my master tree, so I stopped the merge and deleted the old file.  The next day I started working and noticed that I had double marriages for EVERYONE, and my tree had more than 40,000 people!  I did contact Legacy when I finally figured out what I had done and had to restore my file from Dec 18th!  I had even broken through a brick wall!  So now I am in my second day of trying to get back all the info that I lost.  I did make PDF files of the two families that I had worked on, and hoping that is all that I messed up.   Now, I am backing up as soon as I finish adding new info.  I have a flash drive attached and back up to that each time! Lesso...

Backups missing - what happened?

A first for me.  Tried to open my Legacy today and asked if I had code, and if starting with GEDCOM etc!  I had lost everything.  I do backup every time I close Legacy and all my backed up trees are on a flash drive.  All the back-ups on my hard drive are gone.  I lost all my colors and all my settings, so will have to try to do all that.  I might drop potential problems as that will take hours and all the important ones were fixed.

Question on sorting sources.

Is there a way to sort sources.  Now they are entered in the order of my adding them.  Most especially, I would like to be able to move the census in date order.  Then, when looking to see what I have missed, I can just glance without searching the list.  All of my census are first in "unspecified."