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General => The Common Room => Topic started by: relatedtoturnips on Friday 14 August 15 14:09 BST (UK)
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Just to let you know, Ancestry are allowing access to all the Francis Firth Photos for free.
Ever wondered what your local towns and villages looked like in Victorian times? Now you can find out with our UK City, Town & Village Photos, 1857‑2005. Access to this comprehensive colection is FREE until the end of August and includes more than 220,000 landscape and portrait images of 7,000 individual cities, towns, and villages across the UK.
This is a fantastic opportunity to see how the fashions and styles of Britain really evolved, not just what we see in period dramas. Discover the changing street scenes, from horse-drawn traffic replaced by motor vehicles, to old steam trains replaced by the British Rail. These images are extra special as they link to our Census and Parish records, letting you discover your ancestors through their old stomping grounds.
Just log in with your Ancestry account, or make a free one.
Cheers.
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2 things.
1. I see the clever thing with your turnip!!! I admit I tried to get rid of the bug on my screen ;D >:(
2. What is the difference between what Ancestry are offering and this site on the internet for free?
http://www.francisfrith.com/
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2 things.
1. I see the clever thing with your turnip!!! I admit I tried to get rid of the bug on my screen ;D >:(
2. What is the difference between what Ancestry are offering and this site on the internet for free?
http://www.francisfrith.com/
If you use the francisfrith.com, you will have to pay for the images.
Cheers.
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Not sure of the definition of free?
Do you mean I have to pay to go onto FF and look at photos? Or are you suggesting the pictures can be downloaded from Ancestry without paying FF a fee? Or ordered from Ancestry via FF for free?
Not really sure I see a difference , but am happy to be corrected :)
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From comments on this on FB etc., I believe you can save images to your tree, but that is all. You cannot download off Ancestry. And as we all know, none of this gets added when using the GEDCOM.
I do find this whole thing rather odd as ALL the Francis Frith photos are copyrighted!!!
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Thank you plummiegirl , that clarifies it a bit more :)
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From comments on this on FB etc., I believe you can save images to your tree, but that is all. You cannot download off Ancestry. And as we all know, none of this gets added when using the GEDCOM.
I do find this whole thing rather odd as ALL the Francis Frith photos are copyrighted!!!
;)
Presumably you can take a screen shot, though and "save" them that way?
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From comments on this on FB etc., I believe you can save images to your tree, but that is all. You cannot download off Ancestry. And as we all know, none of this gets added when using the GEDCOM.
I do find this whole thing rather odd as ALL the Francis Frith photos are copyrighted!!!
;)
Presumably you can take a screen shot, though and "save" them that way?
Yup, if you press F11 when viewing the image (full size browser). Zoom the image to the size you need, and then take a screen shot. Normally the print screen button.
Paste it into your graphics program. You now have the image.
Cheers.
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The places Ive looked at have very clear pictures and I have used the iPad to photograph them and then send to a few people.
Could spend ages looking at these....one of my places had over a hundred pictures.
Using the drop down boxes on the right make it quicker than filling in the form.
Ringrose
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I am enjoying looking at the photo's and I have printed a couple of them off and they came out ok. Only have a black and white printer but that is ok with me.
Cheers
Anne
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Yup, if you press F11 when viewing the image (full size browser). Zoom the image to the size you need, and then take a screen shot. Normally the print screen button.
Paste it into your graphics program. You now have the image.
Cheers.
OK, I've F11'd - just to see what happened - and now I'm stuck there. How do I get out of full size browser please.
H E L P !!!
STG
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Yup, if you press F11 when viewing the image (full size browser). Zoom the image to the size you need, and then take a screen shot. Normally the print screen button.
Paste it into your graphics program. You now have the image.
Cheers.
OK, I've F11'd - just to see what happened - and now I'm stuck there. How do I get out of full size browser please.
H E L P !!!
STG
Press F11 again :)
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Oh that it would be so simple. Tried that - nothing happens :( :(
Edited to say : Now that the laptop has had a good night's sleep, it seems to have righted itself. Phew, what a relief! :)
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Oh that it would be so simple. Tried that - nothing happens :( :(
Edited to say : Now that the laptop has had a good night's sleep, it seems to have righted itself. Phew, what a relief! :)
Glad to hear it. I have been working with computers for years, and they seem to have a mind of their own.
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Ancestry have uploaded some lovely photos of uk towns and citys from 1857 to 2005 if anyone's interested in looking for places there ancestors lived.
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Also mentioned here :)
Moderator comment , topics merged.
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They're from the Francis Frith Collection. Don't know if it's just me being thick (not unknown ;D), but I only seem to be able to save to my Shoebox or attach to my tree (which I don't have on Ancestry), rather than download.
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I don't think you can download them, i saved one to my tree because there was a photo on there that showed where someone on my tree lived. I know that you can take a screen shot of the page but i'm unsure if you can do this and get the pages index and so on off
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Zoom out in the picture you want so that fits in the screen with nothing else showing in the image, the numbers etc. Then press Print screen on the top row of your keyboard. You can then open it in a photo editing programme, crop off all the unwanted part of the screen image, increase the picture to the size you want and save to your computer. I have done about forty of the pictures this way.
If you don't have an image editing programme, download Irfanview, it is free and will do the job very well.
Jebber
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Thanks very much for that info Jebber i wish i knew about this before, i once sat and took pictures with my phone so there horrendous!
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Glad to have helped, I am not very techie minded, but tried this as an experiment on another site a long time ago, I find it works well if the original photos are a decent resolution.
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http://www.francisfrith.com/uk/
"This digitisation project is in part connected to our new partnership with Ancestry. Starting this week, Ancestry subscribers will be able to view material from the Collection within Ancestry’s service. We are delighted that this partnership will embed Frith’s fabulous archive material into many family histories."
"Every photo we have digitised will be available on the Frith site. You may continue to contribute your memories direct to the Collection of any particularly evocative photos, and all will available to buy in our expanding range of products, from prints to calendars."
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If you have a Family Tree on Ancestry which is linked to Family Tree Maker, then if you link one of these photos to an event in an individual's life then, when you synch your trees, the photo is downloaded to your computer and attached to the individual. It can then be accessed on your computer. The resolution of the photo isn't brilliant, but it's good enough to view & print if you want.
Dimensions are 1500x990, file size is 154kb.