How to save an image on Ancestry -- Once you are within the New image viewer, looking at an image you want to save, here's what you do. Method 1: Using the Green SAVE button in the upper right-hand corner: 1. Click the green SAVE button 2. Choose "save image". A new tab should appear with the image in it. 3. Right-click on the image and choose "save image as". The image should save as a *.jpg file. (In the test case I chose, 004113835_00544.jpg) Method 2: Using the tools widget. 1. On the right-hand side of the screen, find the column of icons. Select the Tools Icon, which looks like a crossed wrench-and-hammer. 2. Click the icon and choose "Download". A new tab should open. 3. Right-click on the image and choose "save image as". The image should save as a *.jpg file. (In the test case I chose, 004113835_00544.jpg) >From the Tools menu, you can also choose Print and choose to print the image to a PDF with or without source citation information. I generally do both -- save the JPG and print to PDF to capture the source information. Yes, Ancestry has made this process so cumbersome that many people don't realize you can still save the images. It was much more straightforward in the old viewer, where the command to download the image actually started a download. Jan Murphy packrat74@gmail.com On Fri, Jan 1, 2016 at 9:00 AM, Ian Thirlwell via < family-historian-users@rootsweb.com> wrote: > Good tip that, Mike. I've found it a boon for snipping relevant articles > from the newspaper images on the British Newspaper Archive. > Ian > > -----Original Message----- > From: Beryl & Mike Tate via > Sent: Friday, January 1, 2016 4:38 PM > To: family-historian-users@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [FHU] References > > If you enlarge the browser display as much as possible, and use the free > Windows Snipping Tool to cut out just the part you need, then it is both > higher resolution and saves the photo editing step that may add distortion. > > Happy New Year, Mike Tate > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > FAMILY-HISTORIAN-USERS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >

Re the inability to download from Ancestry: As has been stated above, it's still possible to download images on all Ancestry sites - US, Canadian, UK etc. (Though I've not been on all of them recently). What happened was that when the new New Ancestry site was introduced, less than half (a guess by me) the code was written and at that point it was not possible to download images. Subsequently they wrote a lot more code and the ability to download was put back. Even now I don't think it's exactly the same as before - I'm sure you used to be able to download the image from the index screen. Now you have to go to the image first before you can download it. Not illogical, really, unless you already know what you want. What Ancestry will never provide is a means to do a bulk download of all images in your enquiry results. And neither would I.