Hi again kj_norway,
Thanks again for your patience and continuing efforts to help me.
As you instructed, I opened Notepad but couldn’t figure out how to change it to “all file” as you instructed. None of the drop down menus mentioned it. I also couldn’t find out how on either Help or on Google how to do it.
Exactly how and what do you do to change Notepad to change to "all file"?
But with Notepad opened, but not in “all file” I download a new Gedcom and just dragged it into note pad where I at least got some text but not the text referring to specific individuals as you showed me in an earlier message.
Copied below are the instructions you then gave me with my results and questions in parenthesis and capital letters.
You say, “Download a new GEDCOM. (I DID THAT) Run Notepad, (I DID THAT BUT NOT IN "ALL FILES". HOW DO I GET IT IN ALL FILES)Open File, (WHICH FILE? THE GEDCOM ICON WON’T OPEN. NO MATTER HOW I CLICK IT,RIGHT CLICK, LEFT CLICK, SINGLE CLICK, DOUBLE CLICK, IT JUST OPENS UP THE LIST OF DOWNLOADS AGAIN WITH THIS LAST DOWnLOADED GEDCOM HIGHLIGHTED…SO I DRAGGED THE NEW DOWNLOAD ICON INTO NOTE PAD AND I GOT MANY PAGES OF TEXT BUT NOT LOOKING LIKE THE TEXT YOU SHOWED ME EARLIER. THE LAST 4 LINES OF TEXT I HAVE ON MY NOTEPAD NOW ARE:
1 TITL Texas Death Index, 1903-2000
1 AUTH Ancestry.com
1 PUBL Ancestry.com Operations Inc
1 _APID 1,4876::0
0 TRLR
(THEN YOU CONTINUE): “ change to "All Files", (HOW?) "click open". (WHICH TO OPEN? THE GEDCOM OR THE NOTEPAD? IT SEEMS THEY ARE BOTH ALREADY OPEN) "Search for a person with notes or pictures that does not get transferred. "
(IN THE TEXT I HAVE ON NOTEPAD NOW, I CAN’T FIND ANY INDIVIDUAL NAMES EXCEPT BURIED IN OTHER COPY AND NOT IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER SO I CAN’T FIND THE ONES i NEED)
HERE ARE SOME OF THE EXAMPLES OF THE NAMES I CAN SEE:
1 TITL De La Pole.FTW
1 NOTE ABBR De La Pole.FTW Source Media Type: Other NS682273
0 @S-336354504@ SOUR
1 TITL TAFT TO RAWSON #5 2902060.FTW
(THEN YOU SAY), “Copy that person's GEDCOM code out as shown above and paste it here I will look at it." (I SURE WOULD IF I COULD. IF YOU CAN TELL ME HOW TO GET THE NOTEPAD IN “ALL FILES” MODE AND DO I DRAG THE GEDCOM INTO NOTE PAD THEN, WILL THAT GIVE ME THE NAMES IN THE FORMAT YOU SHOWED ME EARLIER AND IN ALPHABETICAL ORDER SO I CAN FIND A SPECIFIC NAME?).
I’m sorry to be so much trouble but I just don’t know what to you must be simple things. Can you give it to me step by step? Starting with my new Gedcom closed and Notepad open on the Desktop?
Thanks again for your help and patience.
Bruce