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From: "Stephen Mills" <>
Subject: Re: [TGF] Ancestry census viewer ; was Re: Citationitis
Date: Fri, 3 Sep 2010 20:20:23 -0500
In-Reply-To: <B35D9063-D808-4C1A-A874-5DAC8D7314E6@generationsweb.com>


Meredith - I tried it. Wonderful! It took only a couple of minutes to save
a transcription of an entire page in Word, then as you said, I adjusted
columns and worked with it a little and it's good to go. So easy also to go
back into the entries and type my own notes if needed. I ended up with a
column or two I didn't want, but they were easily deleted. Thanks so much
for sharing.

Stephen Mills
Austin Texas

-----Original Message-----
From:
[mailto:] On Behalf Of
Meredith Hoffman / GenerationsWeb
Sent: Friday, September 03, 2010 5:31 PM
To: Transitional Genealogists Forum Mailing List
Subject: [TGF] Ancestry census viewer ; was Re: Citationitis

Linda -- and others for whom this is new knowledge -- even better is
that this bottom panel with the transcribed census information is in a
table format that enables you to copy as much of the table as you want
and paste it directly into an Excel spreadsheet or a Word document.

It works just as it would if you were copying a table from Word or
Excel:

--Starting at the top left cell of the set of rows and columns you
want to copy, select all the cells you want to copy by holding down
the mouse button and dragging across and down to the bottom right cell
of the block you want to copy
(note that for most censuses, there's more extracted material if you
right-scroll -- if you hold down the mouse button as you drag, you'll
be able to force the selection to scroll to the right to select the
entire block you're interested in extracting)

--Once you've got the desired block of rows and columns selected, use
ctrl-C (cmd-C on a Mac) to copy the block

--Move to where you want to start the table in the Word or Excel
document, click to place the cursor there, and use ctrl-V (cmd-V on a
Mac) to paste the block into the document
(note that in Excel you do _not_ have to select an empty block that
has the same number of columns and rows as the copied block in order
to paste the table; if you click the cursor just in the cell where you
want to start the table, the table will automatically fill in with the
correct columns and rows)

Voila!

I find that I have to use a steady hand to get all the rows and
columns I want and none that I don't want when I'm selecting data from
the table, and I often have to tweak the pasted columns a bit (to make
them line up properly, and to sometimes delete extraneous cell data),
but it's waaaay easier than copying manually or cutting-and-pasting
cell by cell....

Try it....

--Meredith

On 2010Sep03, at 4:52 PM, <> <> wrote:

>
Harold wrote:
...
Harold continued:
> When I click on "View Original Record" and decline the new viewer, I
> am at
> last on a page where I can read the census record for myself. But
> immediately below it is a transcription of every name on the page,
> in order,
> with the one I searched for highlighted

This is what Michael was talking about. I've never seen this bottom
panel with the index entries before, but it's been quite some time since
I've done any real census work. In the past year, just looking up
images I already know are there because it's quicker than finding the
downloaded files on my hard drive. <g>

That is very handy, being able to view both image and index entries in
the same browser window.

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