Gale,
In the class that attended the Missionsanstalt Hermannsburg from
1867-1872, there was a Friedrich Christian Boesche (my keyboard does not have the
umlauts), from Supplingen in Braunschweig. He was born April 6, 1841.
Gary Beard
We all have many special characters:
Characters and Codes:
Use ALT plus the number shown ON THE KEYPAD
� 0228 � 0196 � 0225 � 0224 � 0226 � 0230 � 0198
� 0246 � 0214 � 0243 � 0242 � 0244 o 0156 O 0140
� 0252 � 0220 � 0250 � 0249 � 0251
� 0223 � 0199 � CTRL , c
? 0128
� 0235 � 0233 � 0232 � 0234
� 0239 � 0237 � 0236 � 0238
� 0241 � 0209 . 0149 � 0167 ? 0135
� 0247 ? 0137 � 0177 � 0181 � 0197 ? 0134
� 0162
[] <== This character depends on 1 pt. condensed spacing.
These are ALT-keypad, with no leading zero:
�, 131; �, 132; �, 133; �, 134; �, 160; �, 142; �, 143; �, 145; �, 146; �,
166
�, 135; �, 128
�, 130; �, 136; �, 137; �, 138; �, 144
�, 139; �, 140; �, 141; �, 161
�, 164; �, 165
�, 147; �, 148; �, 149; �, 162; �, 153
�, 225
�, 150; �, 151; �, 163; �, 129; �, 154
�, 152
�, 155; �, 156; �, 157; P, 158; f, 159
�, 167; �, 168; _, 169; , 170; �, 171; �, 172
�, 173; �, 174; �, 175; _, 176;
Bob Doerr in the beautiful Missouri Ozarks
Hi Gary:
Thanks for the response.
We don't know of any Friedrich's in our family, but there are two in a town (Hassbergen)6 K from my GF's home town Anderten. Both in Hoya area. I doubt that the one in the picture is related. The substitution of the e in place of the umlaut was definitely proper.
If you have Windows, you probably have the "onscreen" keyboard capability. There are two steps involved:
Hit start and then search for languages for one and (at different times) then onscreen keyboard for the other.
You have to activate the language first, then the keyboard.
Once the language is activated, a very small keyboard will appear on your tool bar. You click it and select whatever language you want and your keyboard will change to it.
Once the onscreen keyboard is activated it will be on your "Start" menu and all you have to do is click it and the keyboard will appear on your screen.
You can type using your mouse and clicking or you can use the keyboard. The onscreen keyboard will show you which key to hit. There are various ways of keeping the keyboard on the screen--hover--on top--etc.
If you need any assistance on this, I will be glad to help, if I can do it, so can you.
Gale
Another way is to get German characters with Windows is to activate the "num lock" key and push "alt" plus the following on the number keypad at the right of your keyboard to achieve the character shown:
� - 148
� - 153
� - 129
� - 154
� - 132
� - 142
� - 225
Al in Music City