Genealogy Chat

mgnv

I do have an external hard drive, a memory stick ........ and even a cd which I started backing up onto some years ago.


the problem is remembering to keep doing the back up!!

I now have the war records as hard copy, on my hard drive ..... as well as saved on ancestry.



it's taken sooooooooo long to get them!



I actually prefer to have hard copy .... I guess I'm still a dinosaur in some ways!




sylvia

I guess so - I'd never really thought abt it. I just checked on my grandad, and I've got 26 WW1 service images + 9 prewar service images + 3 medal card images. I'd just stuck them all in the same folder, and kept the folder with his family's census images, but now I come to think of it, I suppose there must be some sort of PC photo album thingy that I could stick them in. Honestly, it's not a high priority for me, but I will keep an eye out for such a thing. All my certs are scanned too, but they're pdfs.

Now you've got them on your PC, you ought to think abt backing them up. I've got an external hard drive (well 2 actually) that I back this sort of stuff on, but a cheaper way is to buy the cheapest memory stick you can get, plug it into a USB port, and copy your 11 files onto that. Having said that, probably even cheaper is to email them to your daughter, and tell her not to lose them.

Hi mgnv

thanks for that


so I guess I have to live with the jpgs then??




sylvia

Sylvia - however they are on the site you're saving from is how you get to save them, so a jpg on Ancestry will get saved as a jpg, and a Canadian census pdf at LAC will get saved as a pdf, and a Canadian attestation gif will get saved as a gif, etc.

I must admit I don't understand why, when you right-click on the body of the image you want to save, you only get properties - I've never seen that happen. I normally get a Save As option, and a little save as dialog box opens up with the default name, say 123456a.gif already there - which I would change to JohnSmith.gif and maybe navigate thru the folders displayed there so I could put it with the Smith's instead of the Jones's.

Kay

no matter what I do, the only way the images seem to save is as a jpeg


I have 11 separate jpegs saved in my genealogy file .... and I'd love to get them into some form of document form, and have them all in one file!



sylvia

rolls eyes!!


Have just been sorting the information from the records to send to daughter.

He was in hospital in Baghdad for about a month ....... never knew he was wounded, and it the record doesn't say why

But then he was in field hospital for about a week with Influenza in October 1918


The record says he Embarked on SS Elephanta in Bombay on 27 July 1917 and Disembarked in Basrah in 1 August 1917 .......................... but it doesn't say when he went to Bombay!



sylvia

Too too much at this time of night! Hope you're sorted by the morning......!

or another way,,,

when you get image up.....look to the top left on your screen,,click file, then click save as,

,,,,then name & save to documents,,,this is probally the easiest and simplest way...:}}}}}

Sylvia,~

when you get the named record show,,click on the actual image to the right .......,,then when it opens the first page of the actual image of record..look to the right,,of options to you,,,as you would to view an actual census imagethen when it opens the first image..along the top will be options............

print,save,share,,,click save,,then option to..my computer,,then decide where you want to save it from drop down menu,,click my documnets,name file and ,click save.......then you will need to go into your docs to find it,,,maybe when you get there it will be within --shared documents ..

correction


I have succeeded in saving the pages to my genealogy files in Word


..... but as jpeg images, not a word document!


I suppose that is today's lesson!




sylvia

I HAVE printed it off


...... and then I wanted to also save it


but all I can do is get it as a jpeg in My Pictures!



Viv ......... I'm still looking for something I tried to save about 2 years ago! That's why I asked for help



I've never ever said I was a genius!!



sylvia

and all this time I thought you were really clever my friend!! lol

I wish I could help more!

I'll see if you have any luck by the morning.

Sorry DUPLICATE post!

Janet

I wish I could help more!

I'll see if you have any luck by the morning.

Janet

Honestly Sylvia,the things you dont know!

Whats a hard drive??
And no please dont tell me as I still wont understand.

I just print all my stuff off then put it in a box file .
Last time I tried to save something it said I had,but Im still looking for it!!
x

OK

so I've managed to save one of the pages as a JPEG to My Pictures



how do I translate it into an Office file??



sylvia

grrrrrrr


what AM I doing wrong????

I can't save from the share email either!



sylvia

Thanks anyway Janet



I'm just waiting for the email to arrive to see if Kay's tip works



sylvia

Hmm...when I right click I get a box with a lot of options.

Sorry it didn't work for you, Sylvia!

Kay

I'll try that ....... 'cos I'm having no success the other way!!

All right click does is bring up Properties ....... which tells me the details of the image!




sylvia