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GR is probably the cheapest way to get census records. GR uses Find My Past's transcriptions. I can see you might prefer these to Ancestry's. However, I think,FMP has a better search engine, plus other records GR doesn't have. When your GR sub expires, you might try FMP out for a couple of free weeks to see how you like it, and then you can decide what level of GR sub you'll take out.
Incidentally, in case you come across a family split over two pages, you might check out my thread at:
http://www.genesreunited.co.uk/boards.page/board/genealogy_chat/thread/1247869
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I haven't used this for adding censuses to trees, but it might be of interest all the same.
I use Wordpad where mgnv uses Notepad. This is handy for copying things you would like to send to other people, as it has an e-mail "send" facility - and you can edit for things like size and type of font.
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hello all thakyou for the help i thin i might be able to manage it i will try anyway
if not grandaughter hopefully what would us oldies do without them
i am trying to attatch census records to my tree on g r from gr
yes i know you will tell me not to use g r for aensus recotd but i use speach and magnyfying software g r works beat with it
thankyou so much trying tu help me
sally w :-) :-)
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Every normal copy and paste sequence normally copies to the clipboard first.
Since you're asking for an explanation in very simple terms, I presume you've come across a web page that has a button or somesuch that gives you the option to copy something to the clipboard. (My guess is that it also empties the clipboard before accepting your copy.)
After you've gotten the thingy copied into the clipboard - this is normally best thought of as some secret location hidden in your PC's memory - you open the document where you want to place the thingy. I'm assuming it's text - maybe a transcription or some similar extracted info, in which case you want a text document of some flavour. Open that document, click the cursor in the place you want to copy the text to, then hold down the ctrl key whilst you type the letter v - and the contents of the clipboard should now appear there.
For the text document, I normally use notepad.
To access this under Windows, click on your start button at bottom left, then on all programs and pick the Accessories folder. Notepad is one of the programs in the folder. You can open a notepad document by double clicking on it, or right click and select open. I would right click and select copy, then right click somewhere on your desktop, and select paste shortcut. From then on, you can double click on this shortcut to open a Notepad document.
After you've pasted everything you want into that document, click on the file option at top left of the document, then save - it will treat the first save like a save as, and give you the option of naming the document, say as Smith-Middx.txt or whatever. It will save it, probably in My Documents or somesuch. The address bar at the top of the save as box says the folder it's going to use - you can change that by clicking on the elements in the address list, or the links between the elements. Just below this, there's a button that will create a new folder - you might do that and name it Genealogy and save your file into that folder.
Incidentally, if I wanted to save a chunk of text, like this post, e.g., then I'ld do a copy and paste.
At the risk of being egg-sucky, position your cursor at the start of this post. As you approach the E of Every, your cursor should go from a pointer to an I-beam. As soon as it does, hold yor left mouse button down, and drag your cursorto the end of the post - note stuff gets high-lighted. When you're happy with what's high-lighted, let the left button up, hold the ctrl key down, and type c - this does the copy part. (It actually empties the clipboard, and copies the high-lighted stuff to the clipboard,) You can then position your cursor into the taget document, and type ctrl - v (the paste, as above). The stuff is still in the clipboard, and you could reposition the cursor and paste another copy(s) someplace(s) else if you wanted.
There is an alternative to copy, namely cut (ctrl - x) which copies the highlighted stuff to the clipboard, and deletes the high-lighted stuff. Obviously, this won't work with my GR post, since there's safeguards against you screwing abt with GR's pages, but it's useful when you're editing your own files. (Notepad is a very primitive word-processor.)
Ask again if I've not made things clear, or I've gotten too geeky.
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Cant you just cick 'attach' and then browse your pc to find the file?
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please can someone tell me in very vey simple terms how i copy to a clip board and then attatch the info to my tree( where do i find a clip b board? )
yes i realy mean simple
thankyou for any help you can give
sally w :-S :-S
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