I am not using the browser from within FTM. BTW I am using IE 9. When I used a higher version of IE I had trouble with some newspaper sites that go to Acrobat. I just copied the place name from ancestry.com and pasted into WordPad and it worked correctly - the place name copied. Went to FTM and pasted - the birth date (first text on the page) copied. Thanks for your suggestions. Judy On Fri, Jan 3, 2014 at 10:28 PM, BJ <[email protected]> wrote: > Hmmm.... very interesting..... > > When you are copying the data from the census record, are you using the > browser within FTM Search area? Or are you using an external browser? > If from within the FTM browser, you might try it from the external browser. > > Also you once you copy the data, you might try pasting the information > into NotePad first before you try pasting it into the FTM Place field. > This is to test whether the copy is working or not. > > Having said that an experience I had today reminded me that on occasion, > I have experienced something similar. Today I was copying the address > of a web page from my external browser. I then went to FTM Source, > Media Description to paste the URL but instead I pasted the information > in the description but it turned out to be the source-citation data. > Not what I wanted. I returned to the web page and copied the URL a > second time. This time it pasted correctly. I thought I had not copied > the URL the first time but after getting your comment, it occurs to me > that I had gone to the target field before getting the good copy. I'll > have to pay more attention to this but it is difficult because it only > occurs about 1% of the time. > > If I think of anything else, I'll post. > > BJ > > > > > On 1/3/2014 1:05 PM, J. Strong wrote: > > Thank you BJ for your idea of a "test". Your are correct in all your > > assumptions. > > > > I did as you suggested - tried to Ctrl C a place in a census at > > ancestry.com. The > > text I want to copy was "*Beverly, Essex, Massachusetts*". > > > > Then went to the fact that I created - 1940 Census- and the result was* > 07 > > Apr 1898 *- which is the text of the first fact for this person - her > birth > > date. > > > > I opened Word Pat and pasted into that - and I got 07 Apr 1898.- the > wrong > > result if the info was on my clipboard. > > > > I am using a program called Gadwin PrintScreen Pro which, when you hit > the > > PrtScn Key it copies that to the clipboard. So that must be interfering > > with FTM 14. But I just turned it off. I rebooted my computer and > > PrintScreen Pro is not activated. I repeated the copy/paste routine and > > unfortunately got the same results -the birth date copied - not the > place. > > So I don't know it Gadwin PrintScreen Pro could be the problem. > > > > Now if I go to the fact, then copy from ancestry.com, then past to the > fact > > I get the correct info. > > > > Any other ideas? I so appreciate your help > > > ********************************** > List information page > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Software/FTM-TECH.html > > Version 2008 - 2012 > http://ancestry.custhelp.com/app/home > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >