"john laws" <registrar@lawsfamilyregister.org.uk> wrote: >When I transferred by GEDCOM data (17685 records from Sierra >Generations v5 to Family Origins v4) all the records came over OK >except any notes and when I cut & paste, any (£) appear as umlaut, >(spelt wrong I guess but you know the German (u) with two dots above. Thinking first about why the notes did not transfer, some programs in their gedcom files reference notes to the name on the 1 level and Family Origins will not accept that. You can change the reference from the 1 NAME level to the individual record on the 0 level and then FO will accept the note as a general note. ie: if you see a structure like this in your gedcom file: 0 @I1@ INDI 1 NAME Ava Eugenia /Britt/ 2 NOTE This note will not come through in FO then change it to this: 0 @I1@ INDI 1 NAME Ava Eugenia /Britt/ 1 NOTE Now this note will come through. and the note will appear in FO as a general note. (That's only one possibility of why the notes aren't there.) As for the British pound sign (£) and the umlaut (ü), I can copy and paste both with FO on my computer. Maybe the problem is somewhere in the language settings you have in windows. Wayne League