Hi Sonia If you have a laptop without a numeric keypad, you may have some of the standard keys making up for it. You should have a Function key "fn". On my laptop, the number keys are on the right, imposed on some of the letters. ( U=4, I=5, O= 6 etc) To activate, you keep in the fn key. (on my keyboard it is blue) To use the alt codes, you go alt + fn (keep both in) and m,j,l,u (which is 0134) which will give you † (the dagger or cross) You should see the numbers on the key as well.(on mine it is blue, the same colour as the fn key) I hope this helps Kind regards Bobbie Crowther -----Original Message----- From: south-africa-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:south-africa-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of south-africa-request@rootsweb.com Sent: 18 August 2011 09:01 AM To: south-africa@rootsweb.com Subject: SOUTH-AFRICA Digest, Vol 6, Issue 230 Today's Topics: 1. Re: symbols in SA genealogies (Sonia van Heerden) 2. STUART's in South Africa (Nick Stuart) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 12:34:59 -0400 From: Sonia van Heerden <soniavh11@hotmail.com> Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] symbols in SA genealogies To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <BLU160-W21BA7C46900D21F3EC38B5AB280@phx.gbl> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Hi Keith Thanks for the advice. I will try translating a short article from Dutch as well as Afrikaans to see how it will turn out. Some of the translations were weird. I had one article with a woman names Catherina, and the Afrikaans translation changed her name to Margarita in every case. In another article there was the word Nederlands, and the translation programme changed the word to Canada, perhaps because it sees I am in Canada. Unfortunately with my laptop, because I do not have a numeric keypad, the Alt numbers do not work, with the numberic lock on or off, but I did find the character map and have used that to add the symbols in my text. Thanks again. Sonia Message: 5 Date: Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:14:44 -0400 From: "Keith Meintjes" <umfundi@usa.net> Subject: Re: [SOUTH-AFRICA] symbols in SA genealogies To: <south-africa@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <322PHoXNS2816S03.1313450084@web03.cms.usa.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sonia, When using Google translate, try Dutch => English as well as Afrikaans => English. For symbols, it is somewhat a matter of trial and error. In Word, try Insert ... Symbol and see if the symbol you want is in the table that is displayed. Otherwise, do a Google search on ASCII Code for some sort of explanation. To get an ASCII (or extended ASCII) symbol, hold down the ALT key and then type the 3 or 4 digit code on the numeric key pad. Release the ALT key, and voila! Baptised (wavy equal): 247 Died (dagger): 0134 Divorced (divide): 0247 Euro: 0128 British pound: 163 You can also find a vast number of Unicode symbols. To enter a Unicode symbol, type the 4-digit number. Then, highlight (select) the number, and type ALT+X. For instance, 2248 is the baptised symbol. There is also a way to type HTML characters, but we won't go there! Keith ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2011 22:34:45 +0100 From: "Nick Stuart" <nf.stuart@btinternet.com> Subject: [SOUTH-AFRICA] STUART's in South Africa To: <SOUTH-AFRICA@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <000b01cc5d25$7be57470$73b05d50$@btinternet.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Hello there, I'm researching my STUART family members descended from a relation Charles Henry STUART who was killed in WW1 at the Somme in July 1916 aged just 35. He married a Magdelena, surname unknown, and had two children Thomas Henry STUART and Johannes Adolph STUART both in Cape Town. Thomas married Jessie Paul BRODIE and they had 6 children some of whom could still be alive. If any of the above information, for which I have no dates, ring any bells I should like to hear from you. I can trace Charles Henry STUART back to his GG Grandfather Robert STUART was is my GGGG Grandfather. Regards Nick Stuart ------------------------------ To contact the SOUTH-AFRICA list administrator, send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the SOUTH-AFRICA mailing list, send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to SOUTH-AFRICA-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of SOUTH-AFRICA Digest, Vol 6, Issue 230 ********************************************