Showing posts with label Records. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Records. Show all posts

Friday, December 22, 2017

5 Beginner Tips for Using the Třeboň Regional Archives

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So you just found that you have Czech ancestors, you even narrowed down the specific location of those ancestors to Southern Bohemia, the region covered by the Třeboň Regional Archives. What now? Note that this guide will only cover the basics of using the archives and navigating the records, it won't deal with techniques for reading the Czech language or for finding people when nothing else is working.

Sunday, November 12, 2017

Saving a Full Image from ArkivDigital


Today is the last day of the free weekend for ArkivDigital and I am very happy with the number of genealogical records I have grabbed. However, I wasn't too happy with their options for saving images. If you have used ArkivDigital before you will know that when you save an image it saves only the part visible on your screen. If you zoom way out the resulting picture will be very pixelated and near impossible to read.