Comments on: Highlighting images with frames, masks and corners

By: Anne McCauley

Anne McCauley — Sun, 11 Jan 2009 01:50:56 +0000

I am struggling with the final draft of my family history book-concentrating more on my narrative of the miagration pattern from Va-NC-GA-FLA than the correct pedigreechart. Since the families mostly had ten children, I feel that typewritten lists my cousins is good enoughto just copy in book.
My prime objective is to illustrate some beautiful pioneer and Victorian pictures of the family.
Right now I have my husband
s family coming from INdiana to New Jersey to help a handicapped son moved apartments and I am not able to finish my book or atleast the first draft whichI promised all my Southern relatives in my X-mas card.
I have a Dell lap top with a HP printer. My husband brought me a External Disk Drive for saving my pictures. All because of a local photoshop class last May I bought Photoshop Elements 6 and have most of my pictures -but not all saved in an organized manner but I still have to SAVE themon the external disk drive. I wish I couldbuy a Mac computer because I just learned today that it has automatic saving capacity within thirty minutes. I was told also today at a computer store that they couldorder me a software to help meget “automatic saving ” capacityfor lmy Dell computer but that it will be VERY difficult for me to use. I realize that I can save my putting thingson a CD but I have never done that.
How much wouldit cost for yourcompany to print 15 copies of my book (black & white 20 pictures and about 50 pages of writing. I have done the bibliography. I need to follow instructions of my book the “Genealogical Writing in the 21st Century” by Michael J. Leclerc of the New England Genealogical Society in order to number my pages, and ancestors. I seem to remember that last July at my Boston one day class that there is a way that as I number each ancestor that the Index will automatically add that name in alphabetical order. I have yet to do that and now I have four house guests coming. I am a housewife witha retired husband. I just don’t know if the relatives will stay here for one or two weeks.

By: Stacie McKay

Stacie McKay — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 20:29:39 +0000

I agree with Carol… while I love the new backgrounds and embellishments, most do not work for my family history books.

I would love more simple pencil art, scrolls, etc. for the pages without alot of pictures and text.

I’d also LOVE to be able to use frames for text boxes, not just photos. So that when I have a title of a page as a person’s name, I can frame it. Most of the frames and tags cannot be stretched to properly fit text and the ‘magic’ frames can not be added to text boxes.

I love the new left-hand facing tree, but do not have 5 generations, any chance of getting a 4 generation tree, or the ability to manipulate the lines on the 5??

thanks!

By: Carol Castaños

Carol Castaños — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 16:08:50 +0000

I think its great you have been able to upload and create so many new backgrounds, most of them are very nice but I think you have forgotten the original idea about Ancestry. I feel you have been taking another road and making to many backgrounds for hundrends of occations others than history and ancient topics You have been making a lot of contents and backgrounds for modern scrapbooking and its ok but dont forgett the original idea! I really loved it and I hope you keep on making military, life style and country backgrounds, ancient history is what we need, the ones with the old ships are fantastic, Id like more of those, we have so little.. Most of the other backgrouds are useless for me. Please dont forgett the original purpose of this site. If some one wants a picture book we can get it anywere else but I chose ancestry because it was different and special to me, you gave great importance to history and ancestry. please dont change it or forget it.

thank you

By: Cindy

Cindy — Tue, 28 Oct 2008 21:15:43 +0000

What was Marie wearing when you interviewed her?

By: Anja

Anja — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 03:43:21 +0000

Hi Stefanie,

i am in the process of planning my wedding and after creating my family books with ancestrypress it was clear to me that i want something similar for my wedding invitations / save the date cards. I would like to include 2-3 Generations of our family on the invitation with their old wedding pictures. I can’t find this anywhere and i will design it on my own now, but i thought this would be a great addition to your product line, as those invitations could be used for family reunions and special events as well. I am a huge fan of ancestrypress, keep up the good work!

By: Barbara Scott

Barbara Scott — Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:12:40 +0000

I am looking for a cousin, father was James Casey 6th street, Columbus, Ohio, her name is Cathy Casey. Is there someplace on this site where she might see it? She is probably married and changed her last name. We are related to William Hammond also on 6th Street, Columbus, Ohio, To; Samuel Lee Scott and William P. Scott, Naples, Fl.
Please contact me and let me know how to go about looking for her, thank you, Barbara scott

By: Angela Gilmour

Angela Gilmour — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 01:37:46 +0000

I love all the improvements and appreciate all your work. I design scrapbooks as a business and I’ve discovered my clients really love having pages printed individually and displayed in a top load scrapbook album. This allows them to add pages and replace pages on which they have new or corrected information instead of having to reprint an entire book. (Anyone had the experience of harrassing your family members for information without response… then after you show them your beautifully printed book, they say, “why didn’t you include ________? or that’s not correct!”) The pages have the additional benefit of being inserted into page protectors (great for wear and tear… not to mention households with children =).

Just wondering if you plan to offer an option of printing the pages individually or allowing members to upload the pages to a professional print house. From my research, most home printers cannot offer the archival longevity that professional printers can. I would love to have that option as well as the ability to purchase a top load scrapbook that would fit both sizes of Family History books (or the ability to size the pages in the standard 12 x 12 scrapbook size)

By: Busby Seo Challenge

Busby Seo Challenge — Tue, 26 Aug 2008 06:56:41 +0000

What a nice Challenge !!!!!!!!Busby Seo Challeng

By: Josie

Josie — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 06:11:06 +0000

It would be great if there was an older version of the male and female silhouettes also (like the ones on the “Famous Ancestors” tool.

By: Stefanie Condie

Stefanie Condie — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:10:21 +0000

Diana: Yes, there are male and female silhouettes available. They’re in the “Miscellaneous” folder (under Embellishments). Just type the word “silhouette” into the search field — that way you won’t have to scroll through all the embellishments in that folder.