Genealogy Chat

Some time ago there was a thread regarding the above, which I failed to save. Would some kind person please let me know how to do it, and therefore save on ink?

Hi Bernie I don't know the answer, but am bookmarking your thread. Hope you don't mind.

There are lots of ways of doing this, but I've nudged one thread called ''Printing Census returns''......also if you type ''Printing census'' in the search box, you will find several other threads on the same subject. merry

Hi Bernie I normally save my images as JPEG's, then crop them to remove the black borders in Microsoft Photo Editor, then 'hey, presto' no nore black borders to 'erase'. Works for me anyway - just do it automatically now. I also have some that I've printed out on card and laminated, use them for placemats for family dinners, amazing how many conversations they start!!!!!!!! all the best Looby

One thing i stumbled across yesterday with the census; When you look at an image at the top of the screen you will see in blue links 'search...census.' etc leading down to the district. If you click the links you can get the original image detailing the district and adjoining districts you are searching.The roads and boundaries are listed,the names of adjoining parishes etc,it allows you to plot where the district lies and some streets fall into two boundaries. I found two lines of one family in one street,but on opposite sides in adjoining districts. It allows you to search the whole district image by image if you wish. Glen

I use Irfanview - which can be downloaded for free - you can rotate the images - sharpen - crop etc - had no problems with it at all. Maureen

I use 'Paint' . Having saved the image, I open it up in Paint. Then I use the rubber ... to rub a reasonable sized section of black away. Then I select a portion of the White background that has just been created, and I copy and paste adjoining area's of the census, until I have gone all the way around the outside of the form itself, and have gotten rid of all unwanted 'black'. If you make a mistake, you can always use the 'undo' facility, to erase your last command ! It's a 'little' time consuming ~ I can clean up an image to my satisfaction, ready to print, within a few minutes. Afterwards, you save as ' ***' and there you go ! Saves SO MUCH black ink when printing the images, its brilliant ! Elaine ;-)

Elaine, Would never have thought of using 'Paint' Will have to give it a go. Maureen

Can't see why you would want to mess about like that with paint when there are freebies like Irfanview !! Serif's Photo Plus 6 is another good totally free one. http://www.freeserifsoftware(.)com/default.asp ( other good stuff here as well like PagePlus SE ) Bob

Thank you to all those who have given their suggestions. I have just returned to the computer and was quite astounded by the number of replies. I'll copy your replies so I don't forget this time. Many thanks, Bernie