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 >