I have a dandy little printer program that will read pdf files and make a file copy in rft, and several other formats. It is called PaperlessPrinter, and can be downloaded from the internet, and used free for private use. (Use Google to find it.) It does not always make an exact copy - line and page breaks are sometimes off, but that is easily fixed. It can also have problems if there are diagrams in the pdf - they will not copy right unless you are turning the pdf into a jpg, etc, etc. I find it very handy to get quotes from a master file. Hope someone finds this useful. Cleadie B ----- Original Message ---- From: Robert Davis <bdavis@sympatico.ca> To: NB Rootsweb NB <NewBrunswick-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 12:13:49 PM Subject: [ NB ] First Families I am finding the recently posted "First Families" Site very helpful but I have a problem. It is very erratic in downloading, and sometimes impossible. As well, it's almost impossible to copy & paste from the acrobat reader pages . If anyone has the same problem which they have solved, I'd love to know the solution. Robert Davis bdavis@sympatico.ca ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NEWBRUNSWICK-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message Get news delivered with the All new Yahoo! Mail. Enjoy RSS feeds right on your Mail page. Start today at http://mrd.mail.yahoo.com/try_beta?.intl=ca

Hi Cleadie and listers I am still trying to research my Irish ancestors, William and Harriet(Wallace) Donaldson. There is a lot from censuses and other genealogists who have traced them back to Cloghog, Co Armagh. They originally moved to Mactaquac in 1839, then into Fredericton from about 1860-1875 or so. Their house was a saltbox on Westmorland St and is now in Kings Landing. Peter Toner( UNBSJ) grew up in the house and said that his grandfather bought it from William, and that it had served as a small alehouse and stagecoach base with Woodstock, with stables in the back. I have searched everything on line that I can find and poured over old newpapers online thanks to PaperofRecord.com, but there are no ads or mentions. The house was on the third block up from King St. I keep hoping for a street picture or advertisement or something of the time, but the Archives people dont have any more suggestions. Is it possible that you could suggest any other sources I might have forgotten? Their story is so poigant. Harriet was born in India, raised as a lady in northern Ireland where her father had published books about his life and adventures; she homesteaded in 1839, and after the family returned to Mactaquac( where their home was razed for the park), she vanished. William was listed as a widower living there with a neighbour, Mary King in the 1881 census, and lived with several granchildren, finally settling with my grandmother's family, David and Ann Jewett. In 1884, Harriet travelled to Boston where her son had become a prosperous builder, and she moved to Blackstone where she died of pneumonia in 1889. I am driven by the need to find out what happened to them, why they split up, and anything else I can find out. Anything about their life in Fredericton, where their son Robert took over the Westmoreland St house ( before John Toner bought it), and was a well known CN engineer, musician and Orangeman. He was also a fireman. I ve tried to access records from these organizations on line or through the NB museum without any luck, but maybe havent tried the right steps. There must be other records somewhere. Any ideas? Beverley Clarkson Halifax, NS