#FamilyHistoryMonth Day 8 – The British Newspaper Archive for UK research

  For #FamilyHistoryMonth Day 8, check out The British Newspaper Archive for UK research. There are both fee and free options so keep reading and learn how to use it to your advantage for free.   "The British Newspaper Archive is a partnership between the British Library and findmypast to digitise up to 40 million newspaper pages from the British Library's vast collection over the next 10 years." It's free to search and you'll see snippets from each paper where they find a "hit". If you want to read the entire article you'll need a subscription plan. Don't stop here, I'm going to show you the subscription options, but you don't have to subscribe to benefit! You can always do free, unlimited searches. If you decide it's worth it to see the entire article, choose a subscription plan, including a pay as you go option.   Now, for how you can benefit from free searches. I did a quick search for a Welsh ancestor, Sophia Webber, from Monmouthshire. I'v…
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  • October 8, 2017
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Fee or Free – Photo Metadata Programs

I'm pretty excited to organize my digital photos this year and one class at RootsTech gave me the idea I need to make this a reality. It was Alison Taylor, of Pictures and Stories, who shared some of her best ideas for adding metadata to photos that really inspired me. I follow some photo and organizational gurus on Twitter and Facebook and this is really the organizational goal I need to tackle. From Caroline Guntur, Certified Photo Organizer: work on your digital photos before your analog photos. It's easy to join the craze and scan all family documents and photos but if we don't have a digital file management system in place, she compares it to a conveyor belt that has .pdfs and .jpgs piling up on the floor. Digitizing something doesn't take the mess away, it just gives you a second format that needs to be organized. Adding Metadata to photos is part of the organization process. Metadata is like the handwriting on the back of an old photo. I am not a computer techie or a p…
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  • February 18, 2017
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