Let me try and clarify my points. If you can’t reproduce them, then I got a bad copy of FTM.
You are totally in FTM. Don’t even think about Ancestry. You pull up a person. Let’s say you have 10 birth date/place facts for that person. You have selected a Preferred Fact birth date and place. You decide you want to merge 5 of the birth date/place possibilities. You execute the merge of those five in FTM.
What happens to your chosen Preferred Fact? In my version of FTM 2014, 50 to 60% of the time, the Preferred Fact will be changed by the merge. I don’t see any pattern on how the merge chooses the new Preferred Fact. I just have to remember to re-choose it back to the original. I am not sure that would be your intent.
Second, the “Merge Fact Choice” screen; it is where you choose the facts to be merged. In FTM 2012, the original choice screen was sorted by date and then by alpha within date. This changed after some FTM 2012 changes and continues in FTM 2014. The bottom line was I thought you wanted to go back to the original intent; that is, whenever the Merge Fact Choice screen pops up, you want the choices to be sorted by date and then alpha within date.
Doing some work tonight, it appears it is close the preferred sort the first time you bring it up within a person. But subsequent times within that person, it is way out of order.
Hopefully, this is clearer.
Thanks
Bud