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MaryA
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Not a clue really if I'm honest, but thought I would check the source in both two browsers.
Although the strange characters appear in both browsers when I check the source in IE the text is normal, but in Firefox the strange characters appear.
Now I expect somebody else will be able to give you better advice than I can but if the source appears different in two sources it would seem to me that a setting is changing the characters.
At the top of your page you have
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=utf-8">
I looked at somebody else's website and they have
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">
Could it be that if you changed your charset to windows it might help? Be sure to have a back up of your page before you try out anything.
Mary
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MaryA
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I don't mean YOU changed anything  I mean maybe the characters were changed by a setting created by your software.
Not sure I'm able to make myself clear  sorry, my brain is fumbling a bit with it and I can't put it into words.
Mary
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gbaynes
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Hi Dinie
Special characters like "£%^& and foreign characters have to be specified in a special way. This is to ensure compatibility with all browsers, on all operating systems, on all computers in all languages.
Special characters are written as an ampersand followed either by a # and a decimal number followed by a semi-colon, Or a mnemonic followed by a semi-colon.
So the ampersand itself can be represented as
&
or
&.
There are lists of special characters on the internet.
But in your case
" = "
' = '
In fact it isn't just the strange characters which can be represented this way. ALL characters have their own code.
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Keith Bateman
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Hi Nadine,
Just had a look at your site and put it into my front page editor - when I removed the " ' "[apostrophe] after both the words - mums and years - it worked fine.
Like you don't know why - just do it!!
Cheers
Keith
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Zeb
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Strange.
If I save the page to my computer and view it from there I don't get those extra characters appear.
The problem seems linked to the use of the apostrophe. The problem appears in Firefox, IE and Opera.
Try adding this line into the page immediately after <HEAD>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1">
See if that sorts the problem.
I've also noticed that there seems to be an image misplaced. The "Built With NetObject Fusion 7" image seems to be your "Links" link - is this image in the wrong place?
By the way, that page has 28 verification errors with the HTML whereas the "About Me" only has 18 - the CSS is fine.
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Derby: WOODCOCK (Donnington)
Devon: HARRIS (Plymouth)
Lancashire: DERRICK
Lincolnshire: CROPPER, WOODCOCK (Boston)
London: BARKER, DUGGIN, HARRIS, HINTON, HULBERT, WHITE
Wales: HARRIS, PRITCHARD (Pembrokeshire)
Warwickshire: DERRICK, WOODCOCK
Desperate for my Woodcocks from Birmingham!
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MaryA
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I have absolutely no idea how HTML works I just type straight onto the page. 
There's a link to a pretty good tutorial on the forum for the Free Webspace. This is the link to the particular page giving step by step instructions just to edit your page rather than starting from the very beginning to create it.
http://www.ironspider.ca/basic_html/editing.htm
When you see your own page in Notepad you will see very near the top the line I mentioned - you can just copy and paste Zeb's line instead of the one that is there, save the notepad page and then upload it again.
Mary
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Zeb
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Really sorry but I haven't a clue what you mean re the image misplacement as that link is there with the site, i haven't altered it (at least I don't remember altering it  ). As for verification errors -what are they, how do I find them and change them?
Image
There is a mini banner advertising the program used to make the site. Usually these don't change to a different image when you move the mouse over them but can be clicked to take you to the website of the program. Instead yours seems to "rollover" to a button pointing to a "links" page.
Verification errors
These can be corrected by checking the various settings in the program that made the site and/or manually editing the HTML to fix the errors. Unfortunately I can't help here as I've never heard of the program you're using.
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Derby: WOODCOCK (Donnington)
Devon: HARRIS (Plymouth)
Lancashire: DERRICK
Lincolnshire: CROPPER, WOODCOCK (Boston)
London: BARKER, DUGGIN, HARRIS, HINTON, HULBERT, WHITE
Wales: HARRIS, PRITCHARD (Pembrokeshire)
Warwickshire: DERRICK, WOODCOCK
Desperate for my Woodcocks from Birmingham!
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MaryA
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Image
There is a mini banner advertising the program used to make the site. Usually these don't change to a different image when you move the mouse over them but can be clicked to take you to the website of the program. Instead yours seems to "rollover" to a button pointing to a "links" page.
No problem with that here
I don't see this problem either.
Mary
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Census Information is Crown Copyright, from www.nationalarchives.gov.ukLunt (Wavertree/West Derby), Forshaw (West Derby), Richardson (Knowsley), Kent (Cheshire), Cain (Hertfordshire, London), Larkins (Bedfordshire, London), Nunn (London), Lenton, Hillyard (Bedfordshire), Parle, Lambert, Furlong, Wafer (Wexford) Special separate interest in Longford (Blackrock, Dublin) |
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