We want to annotate or add a citation to the source image.We need to capture a very long or wide page that can’t be displayed in its entirety on the screen.(This often happens with newspaper pages.) The page in its entirety is blurred when printed. (No one wants to accidentally put a virus on their computer!) (Why waste all that ink printing it or storage space saving it?) We may not want to download or copy an image from an unknown website. We don’t need or want to save the whole page.Here are some of the challenges genealogists face when it comes to capturing images: To understand the value of a tool we need to make identify the problems we face and see how it solves them. The Image-Capturing Challenges that Genealogists Face I use it literally every day with my genealogy as well as in everything I do to put together this show for you each and every week. Today we’re going to talk about Snagit because I really see this as being such an incredible tool for genealogy. I also use their video product, Camtasia. It’s a fabulous product by a company called TechSmith. And that’s Snagit.Īnd lots of people ask me about how I do my videos, my screen capturing and imagery and all that kind of stuff. And we’re going to be doing it with the tool that I really absolutely use every single day. This week, we’re going to be capturing our findings in a very visual way, and actually incorporating those source citations. Last week, we talked about citing the sources that we find. Right? If we don’t, then we may end up losing the trail. But the trick is that we have to capture them. And as we do that, we are finding all kinds of goodies. One of the things that we all work really hard to do is solve family history mysteries. Clicking the red “Subscribe” button at the Genealogy Gems YouTube channel will add my channel to your YouTube library which makes it super easy to return to my channel and Elevenses with Lisa any time you’re on YouTube. Add my YouTube channel to your “Favorites” list on YouTube:Ĭlick here to add my channel to your YouTube favorites. Please share this episode with your friends: Not a member yet? Learn more and join the Genealogy Gems and Elevenses with Lisa family here. Premium Members can download the exclusive ad-free cheat sheet PDF in the Resources section at the bottom of the page. These show notes feature everything we cover in this episode.
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