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Saving a copy of a census image?

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Christopher

Christopher Report 19 Mar 2010 14:02

Hi, can anyone please tell me (because I've never tried it yet) on this web site, when you pay your credits and look at the image of a census record, can you save a local copy of the image? I have done so on Ancestry but haven't tried it on here yet and I'd be interested to know before I pay my money!

Cheers

Paul

GlitterBaby

GlitterBaby Report 19 Mar 2010 14:06

Gold Membership is not popular on this site.

GR do not hold any records for census or BMD

Researching:
PLEASE DO NOT: send me information concerning your thread on the board as it should be posted on your request where all members can see it. PLEASE DO NOT: ask me for help with lookups as they should be placed on the boards to get the best possible result. PLEASE DO NOT: open your tree just because I have posted information on your thread as I will not be related. THANK YOU. Researching Carter, Cass and Walker in England. Researching Caven, McKill, Sutherland and Will in Scotland.

Christine

Christine Report 19 Mar 2010 14:41

Hi Christopher

You can pay for credits as-you-go on here, and you can attach a copy of the census record to a person on your tree.

Researching:
Hill, Jewell - Cornwall. Langley-Shropshire,Cole, Neate -Wiltshire,Lott, Ewell- Kent.Punter, Gadd, Wapshott, White, Weston - Surrey. To say nothing of the other half's family!

Gwyn in Kent

Gwyn in Kent Report 19 Mar 2010 15:02

I think I have read that if your family go over onto a second page, viewing via Genes does not allow you to immediately click onto the following page, as you can on Ancestry.


Gwyn

Christopher

Christopher Report 19 Mar 2010 15:13

Thanks for the replies. The reason I want to copy the image to my local disk is so I can attach in to a record in the family tree software running on my PC. I use this software as the master file from which I export the gedcom file and upload it to 2-3 other sites. Do you know if I can copy the image to a local disk or can I only attach it to a record in GR.

If it is just the later, what happens if I export the GR tree as a gedcom, i.e. do the attached images come with the export as well?

Here's hoping!

Paul

ChristineinPortugal

ChristineinPortugal Report 19 Mar 2010 18:06

I would imagine you can save the image but I have noticed quite a few people are not very impressed with Gr's records and credits work out very expensive.

A gedcom is a text only file so any attached images would not be included.

Findmypast have a 14 day free trial which you could use to obtain some images.

Christine

mgnv

mgnv Report 19 Mar 2010 19:44

Try the following - right-click on the image and see if you get the option to "Save image as ...".
If that doesn't work, try saving the whole web page. After it's saved, look at where you saved it, and see if the image is there - possibly tucked inside a folder of stuff. Copy the image file to where you want it, rename it to something sensible, then get rid of all the pre-copy stuff you just saved

Christopher

Christopher Report 21 Mar 2010 10:15

Just thought I'd answer my own question in case anyone else is looking for the answer in future.

When you get an image of a census record, it is fired up in your browser using Adobe Acrobat Reader. From here you have the option of saving the image as a pdf on your local drive and naming it it whatever you want.

I have now found 3-4 census records I had had trouble finding on Ancestry and have saved the pdf's and attached them to records in my Family Tree software.

Hope this helps.

Paul