Genealogy Chat

Just recently I have noticed that when I copy and paste a census from Ancestry it spreads out over a large area and I usually end up haveing to edit and delete spaces. Below is an example of what I mean:


Name:

Louisa A. Leadbetter



Age:

6



Estimated Birth Year:

abt 1875



Relation:

Daughter



Father's name:

George S. Leadbetter



Mother's name:

Mary A. Leadbetter



Gender:

Female



Where born:

Lowesby







Civil parish:

Lowesby



County/Island:

Leicestershire



Country:

England







Street Address:

The Grange




Education:

Employment status:




View image



Occupation:

Scholar







Registration district:

Billesdon



Sub-registration district:

Billesdon



ED, institution, or vessel:

3



Neighbors:

View others on page



Piece:

3123



Folio:

44



Page Number:

12



Household Members:




Name

Age



George S. Leadbetter

42



Mary A. Leadbetter

29



George S. Leadbetter

9



Louisa A. Leadbetter

6



Thomas Leadbetter

4



Elizabeth Leadbetter

5



Harry Leadbetter

1



Joseph Fairbrother

30



William Black

16



Jane Wright

16


It never used to be like this and I end up copying into a Word doc so I can edit it

How strange mine copies ok and hasnt changed,

heres mine from ancestry
1881 England Census
about Louisa A. Leadbetter Name: Louisa A. Leadbetter
Age: 6
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1875
Relation: Daughter
Father's name: George S. Leadbetter
Mother's name: Mary A. Leadbetter
Gender: Female
Where born: Lowesby

Civil parish: Lowesby
County/Island: Leicestershire
Country: England

Street Address: The Grange
Education:

Employment status: View image
Occupation: Scholar

Registration district: Billesdon
Sub-registration district: Billesdon
ED, institution, or vessel: 3
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 3123
Folio: 44
Page Number: 12
Household Members: Name Age
George S. Leadbetter 42
Mary A. Leadbetter 29
George S. Leadbetter 9
Louisa A. Leadbetter 6
Thomas Leadbetter 4
Elizabeth Leadbetter 5
Harry Leadbetter 1
Joseph Fairbrother 30
William Black 16
Jane Wright 16


Source Citation: Class: RG11; Piece: 3123; Folio: 44; Page: 12; GSU roll: 1341745

I copy and paste down to the last name and the copy and paste separately the Source Citation etc details

Shirley it is driving me mad!! Something has changed somewhere and I can't work out what. MOH is also trying to fathom it out for me as he is much more computer savvy than me.

Would drive me mad too, all that editing to do before you can submit the post.

Dont know what to suggest as not that computer savvy on how things work :-(

Shirley my husband asks what Browser you are using please?

I have right clicked on a blank space on the census trancript and the looked at Encoding.
mine reads - dot against Unicode(UTF-8)
and- dot against left to right documentt

i use Internet Explorer

Me too. It also says the same as you (Unicode etc) when I right click on the transcript

Sorry My PC froze and the connection went doo dally with non responding website pages open .

I seem to remember my grandson . who is a computer whizz saying when the mouse is on its way out it can do funny things, Have you got a spare mouse you could try .

Mine has huge gaps to!!! drives me mad!

Mine does the same. The information on Ancestry is in a table and if you paste into a Word document it is tablulated properly. If you paste into a text document (such as the Genes message reply box) the end of cells are pasted as a line feed.

There is presumably some setting you can make somewhere which ignores the end of cell markers when pasting into a text application.

Where are you IGP?

I copy and paste mine direct from Ancestry to the genes reply box and it copies over OK as you can see from my posting above.

Cant tell you why though or what settings I have that it works that way.

thanks for your input. I don't know why mine has changed as I used to be able to copy and paste as Shirley has done above.

I have found though that if I look at the 'Printer friendly' version of the transcript and copy that it comes out OK as below:

Name: Elizabeth Leadbetter
Age: 5
Estimated Birth Year: abt 1876
Relation: Daughter
Father's name: George S. Leadbetter
Mother's name: Mary A. Leadbetter
Gender: Female
Where born: Lowesby

Civil parish: Lowesby
County/Island: Leicestershire
Country: England

Street Address: The Grange
Education:

Employment status: View image

Registration district: Billesdon
Sub-registration district: Billesdon
ED, institution, or vessel: 3
Neighbors: View others on page
Piece: 3123
Folio: 44
Page Number: 12
Household Members: Name Age
George S. Leadbetter 42
Mary A. Leadbetter 29
George S. Leadbetter 9
Louisa A. Leadbetter 6
Thomas Leadbetter 4
Elizabeth Leadbetter 5
Harry Leadbetter 1
Joseph Fairbrother 30
William Black 16
Jane Wright 16

Yes send for IGP, we need help.

Thanks Barry, just seen your reply will follow the link or is it follow the yellow brick road!