This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: meyer, Heins Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZVC.2ACE/3938.3 Message Board Post: wanted to help in another way. In the mailing lists is one genealogy helps that deals a great deal with computer helps. there is a way there. I forget how I got mne. but probably thourgh google. I lost my hard drive a bit back and know i also have to aquire it again. one presses alt key and the numbers on the far right keyboard and one gets the umlauts. but one has to install something else first. happy hunting jo

I copied this down from April 16, 2004: Holding the ALT key, and using the numeric keypad, ä is 132 Ä o 142 ö is 148 Ö is 153 ü is 129 Ü is 154 ß is 225 It was signed "Karen" who was looking for BUSCH from Stargard and HELM from Stralsund. Ethel ----- Original Message ----- From: <guttmorgan@hotmail.com> To: <NIEDERSACHSEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 12:00 PM Subject: [NIEDERSACHSEN] Re: Update on Boody/Budde/Hannover/Iowa > This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. > > Surnames: meyer, Heins > Classification: Query > > Message Board URL: > > http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/ZVC.2ACE/3938.3 > > Message Board Post: > > wanted to help in another way. > In the mailing lists is one genealogy helps that deals a great deal with computer helps. there is a way there. > I forget how I got mne. but probably thourgh google. I lost my hard drive a bit back and know i also have to aquire it again. one presses alt key and the numbers on the far right keyboard and one gets the umlauts. but one has to install something else first. > happy hunting > jo > > > ==== NIEDERSACHSEN Mailing List ==== > To contact the List Admin: mailto:NIEDERSACHSEN-admin@rootsweb.com > > To unsubscribe send an email to: NIEDERSACHSEN-L-request@rootsweb.com > (In Digest Mode change the "L" to a "D") with the word unsubscribe > in the body of the message. > > ============================== > Search Family and Local Histories for stories about your family and the > areas they lived. Over 85 million names added in the last 12 months. > Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13966/rd.ashx >

Here are a couple of more Again, hold the ALT key down while keying the numbers on the numeric keypad ë = 137 ï = 0239 (be sure to use the leading zero) ö = 148 Linda -----Original Message----- From: Ethel Heidesch [mailto:eheidesch@midlands.net] Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 5:42 PM To: NIEDERSACHSEN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [NIEDERSACHSEN] Re: Update on Boody/Budde/Hannover/Iowa I copied this down from April 16, 2004: Holding the ALT key, and using the numeric keypad, ä is 132 Ä o 142 ö is 148 Ö is 153 ü is 129 Ü is 154 ß is 225

A chart showing all the diacritical marks can be found at : http://cgi.rootsweb.com/genbbs/HINTS/ForeignChar.htm This is from a copy that I printed out in July 2000. Hopefully this useful page is still there. The keystrokes given at this site, for the German diacritical marks, are different from those listed in the attached message. They have worked for me since I found them. Jerry Dittman Boonsboro, MD Researching: Dütmann, Hengelsberg, Grothaus, Bitter, Buller in the Osnabrück area. Huckenstein, Zelz in the Wipperfüerth area. Raab, Möller in the Buchenberg/Zillbach area. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ethel Heidesch" <eheidesch@midlands.net> To: <NIEDERSACHSEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, April 29, 2005 8:42 PM Subject: Re: [NIEDERSACHSEN] Re: Update on Boody/Budde/Hannover/Iowa >I copied this down from April 16, 2004: > > Holding the ALT key, and using the numeric keypad, > ä is 132 > Ä o 142 > ö is 148 > Ö is 153 > ü is 129 > Ü is 154 > ß is 225 > > It was signed "Karen" > who was looking for BUSCH from Stargard and HELM from Stralsund. > > Ethel