The use of diacritics and/or foreign characters in genealogy programs

Most genealogy computer programs do not have the possibility to insert diacritics and/or foreign characters, if you do not have them on your computer keyboard.

If you have ancestors from non-English speaking countries and you find diacritics or foreign characters in the family names, you may use the ASCII code to insert these characters into your genealogy computer program.

Lucky if you use the PAF-program or one of the modern genealogical programs on the market. You can download the PAF-program for free from the                     LDS-church webpage.

In the PAF-program you press the F7 key and choose your character you need for your records.

If you still use an older version of a genealogy computer program you should use the above mentioned ASCII code.

Following a list with the most common foreign characters (for the input as ASCII code).

Please be aware that not all characters are possible to input with the ASCII code.

To input a character, press the Alt-key, and type the decimal number on the 10-key pad. Make sure the NumLock key is on.