Children are managed from the Children table below the main person details. The list shows only the children with the active spouse — see Multiple spouses if the person has more than one partner.
It is best practice in genealogy to list children in birth order. Pedigree Forge helps by flagging children that may be out of order — a child whose birth date is earlier than the previous sibling is marked with exclamation marks around its order number.
The sort button (up-and-down arrows) automatically sorts children into chronological order, provided their dates of birth are known. Individual up and down buttons let you move a child manually — useful when birth order is known from a source (such as a will listing children by seniority) but exact dates are not.
When entering a batch of children — for example, from baptism registers of a particular church — the family group dialog is more convenient than editing each child individually. Click the two-children button above the children table to open it. This dialog allows dates of birth and baptism to be edited together in a single view.
If several children were born in the same place but you have not yet entered a place of birth for each, you can set them all at once. Ensure the correct parents are selected, then use Tools > Set All Children’s Place of Birth. The dialog lets you enter a place, and clicking Apply sets it for all children of the current couple who do not already have a place of birth.