For St. Pascal, Kamouraska, 1883 - Ancestry indicates 74 pages of records. Pages 1-42 are for 1883. Pages 43- end are actually 1914. I've reported this to Ancestry; hopefully it will be corrected within my lifetime. -----Original Message----- From: qc-etanglo-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:qc-etanglo-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of qc-etanglo-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, March 31, 2007 3:03 AM To: qc-etanglo@rootsweb.com Subject: QC-ETANGLO Digest, Vol 2, Issue 37 Today's Topics: 1. Re: Drouin Records from Ancestry (Evelyn Brunton) 2. Re: Drouin Records from Ancestry (Elsie Swarner) 3. Faint images (Beal) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 18:49:31 -0400 (EDT) From: Evelyn Brunton <evelyn_brunton@yahoo.ca> Subject: Re: [QC-ETANGLO] Drouin Records from Ancestry To: dr.ellis@physics.org, qc-etanglo@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <20070330224931.69525.qmail@web30504.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 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!? 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Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:23:19 -0400 From: "Elsie Swarner" <swar5032@bellsouth.net> Subject: Re: [QC-ETANGLO] Drouin Records from Ancestry To: <qc-etanglo@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <006601c77322$66ed2b90$6101a8c0@hemmingford> Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset="iso-8859-1"; reply-type=original Yes, I have found some of the older records to be illegible, but I have found some valuable information, and am just THANKFUL for what I have found. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evelyn Brunton" <evelyn_brunton@yahoo.ca> To: <qc-etanglo@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, March 30, 2007 5:47 PM Subject: [QC-ETANGLO] Drouin Records from Ancestry > There is a tremendous amount of info in these folios & > a great source for geneologists. > However, checking the info can be quite frustrating > when, such as in the 1877 to 1880 East Farnham Advent > Church records, there are only a couple of pages out > of the 39 images that can be read with great > difficulty, & the rest are too light to get anything > from at all (especially when there definitely should > be something there from a particular family member). > Oh well, it can't all be perfect I guess! > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > QC-ETANGLO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:28:38 -0500 From: "Beal" <gailbeal@vif.com> Subject: [QC-ETANGLO] Faint images To: <qc-etanglo@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <005701c77333$e91f08c0$89acfea9@beal> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="Windows-1252" You may be able to make the faint images more legible by increasing the GAMMA (ratio) which is the number of midtone pixels divided by the number of pure white (or black) pixels. I suggest that you download the free program IRFANVIEW (available at www.irfanview.com) which can handle this under IMAGE/ENHANCE . The program is about 800K and the Extensions less than 5 Megs. It also is self-contained (no dlls) so it leaves no footprints if you later remove it. This program can do many great things but is worth having just for its easy resizing of picture to send on the web (600X800). You check file associations in a list (TIF, GIF, JPEG, etc) and then if one arises Irfanview handles it. If you don't like what it does then you uncheck the extension (Jpg? etc) and your computer reverts. Once you improve the image use SAVE AS to a new place or with a changed name--eg. Page5 ENHANCED. Fred Beal gailbeal@vif.com (My wife Gail does the geneology!) ------------------------------ To contact the QC-ETANGLO list administrator, send an email to QC-ETANGLO-admin@rootsweb.com. 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