I agree that some are very faint and hard to read. The fault may not lie with Ancestry this time. I know that some of the LDS Microfilms are also very faint. I have also seen a couple of the original books at the ETRC and know from them that the writing has faded to the point of almost disappearing. Unfortunately, its something we must work around. If you are moderately skilled with a computer and have and image program such as Paint Shop Pro or PhotoStudio it may be possible to enhance some images. I first save the image to my own computer and then open it in one of those programs. Sometimes it is possible to gain enough contrast and correct the brightness using just "Brightness and Contrast" only but in more difficult cases look for a Histogram adjustment which is often available under "Tone Adjustment" or something similarly named. This can take a little more time and I generally find it practical only if I know or strongly suspect that an entry that I need is on the page. > -----Original Message----- > From: qc-etanglo-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:qc-etanglo-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Evelyn Brunton > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 17:48 > To: qc-etanglo@rootsweb.com > Subject: [QC-ETANGLO] Drouin Records from Ancestry > > There is a tremendous amount of info in these folios & a > great source for geneologists. > However, checking the info can be quite frustrating when, > such as in the 1877 to 1880 East Farnham Advent Church > records, there are only a couple of pages out of the 39 > images that can be read with great difficulty, & the rest are > too light to get anything from at all (especially when there > definitely should be something there from a particular family member). > Oh well, it can't all be perfect I guess! >

Thanks for the suggestions. I just ran across another problem a few minutes ago. When looking for documents in the Farnham registry for 1853 in the Methodist church files, I found that everytime I tried to access Farnham Methodist church files for 1853, the files for Farnham St-Romuald (in French) came up instead, regardless of which line I requested. There must be a glitch there in the connections. --- "David J. Ellis" <dr.ellis@physics.org> wrote: > I agree that some are very faint and hard to read. > The fault may not lie > with Ancestry this time. I know that some of the LDS > Microfilms are also > very faint. I have also seen a couple of the > original books at the ETRC and > know from them that the writing has faded to the > point of almost > disappearing. Unfortunately, its something we must > work around. > > If you are moderately skilled with a computer and > have and image program > such as Paint Shop Pro or PhotoStudio it may be > possible to enhance some > images. I first save the image to my own computer > and then open it in one of > those programs. Sometimes it is possible to gain > enough contrast and correct > the brightness using just "Brightness and Contrast" > only but in more > difficult cases look for a Histogram adjustment > which is often available > under "Tone Adjustment" or something similarly > named. This can take a little > more time and I generally find it practical only if > I know or strongly > suspect that an entry that I need is on the page. > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: qc-etanglo-bounces@rootsweb.com > > [mailto:qc-etanglo-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf > Of Evelyn Brunton > > Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 17:48 > > To: qc-etanglo@rootsweb.com > > Subject: [QC-ETANGLO] Drouin Records from Ancestry > > > > There is a tremendous amount of info in these > folios & a > > great source for geneologists. > > However, checking the info can be quite > frustrating when, > > such as in the 1877 to 1880 East Farnham Advent > Church > > records, there are only a couple of pages out of > the 39 > > images that can be read with great difficulty, & > the rest are > > too light to get anything from at all (especially > when there > > definitely should be something there from a > particular family member). > > Oh well, it can't all be perfect I guess! > > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email > to QC-ETANGLO-request@rootsweb.com with the word > 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and > the body of the message > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com